O estudo técnico preliminar (ETP) no diálogo competitivo: possíveis incompatibilidades no plano concreto

This article aims to present a field research with the theme: “Impact of the new law on public bidding and procurement in municipalities in the state of Tocantins. This article explores the impacts of Law No. 14,133/2021, the new Bidding Law, in the context of public procurement in the State of Tocantins, through qualitative and field research. The legislation introduces significant changes aimed at improving efficiency and transparency in bidding processes, directly impacting the government and companies. At the government level, the highlights are reducing bureaucracy, encouraging innovation, and introducing modalities such as competitive dialogue. For companies, the law provides greater legal certainty, predictability in procurement, and facilitates the participation of foreign companies, promoting sustainable practices. The research in Tocantins, based on interviews with 21 professionals and public managers, reveals perceptions about adaptation to the new legislation and the challenges faced. The authors cited contribute with theoretical and practical analyses that enrich the understanding of the effects of the law on public administration and the private sector: Matos, M.C. (2021) org, Abrucio, F. L (2021) Fernandes, R. (2022), Dias, M. A.(2022). Despite the limitations of the study, the new bidding legislation in Tocantins, although challenging, opens doors for administrative modernization, and despite limited resources, it is positively impacting local development, but still needs investment in training and readjustment in planning. Finally, the conclusions also point to the need for future research that explores the adaptability of these interventions in different institutions.

The principle of efficiency must be a constant obstinacy of the public administration. This paper investigated the variables that impact the efficiency of public purchases, focusing on the celerity, specifically in the internal phase named “Pregão” modality, through a quantitative approach. This is a case study of forty-nine processes that occurred between 2020 and 2021 within the Ministry of Justice. Through linear regression, with the dependent variable representing the total time of the internal phase, the variable representing the time for drafting the Terms of Reference increases the duration of the process, while the duration of the Preliminary Technical Study reduces the bidding period. In logistic regression, the time spent preparing the Terms of Reference had a positive impact on the probability of generating items not awarded, while the time spent preparing the price survey reduced this probability. In conclusion, it is pointed out that the administration's opportunity to reduce the time of development of the Terms of Reference and to give greater attention to the Preliminary Technical Study and price research.

Family enterprises in China have significant impact on China’s social and economic development. Yet did technological innovation in Chinese family enterprise play a role on this impact? We examine the role that technology innovation played in the rise in importance of Chinese family businesses. We analyze the impact of family enterprises on companies’ technological innovation through both family ownership and family management involvement. We further scrutinize how Chinese family-owned business internationalization strategies affected their technological innovation activities. The authors show that family ownership without family management involvement has a negative relations with companies’ technical innovation. We further demonstrate that family ownerships with family management involvement have a positive relations with enterprises’ technical innovation. Our study provides some effective measures to increase the investment in firms’ technical innovation and minimize the disadvantages of family business. The research result has practical significance in the governance of family enterprises.

This study examines the complex test of observing to time, cost, and quality factors when executing construction projects in developing countries, which frequently becomes more difficult by awarding projects based on low bids. By compared to collusion implications and e-bidding benefits using the standard deviation bid and average bid methods, the study provides light on critical aspects. An examination of contracts in Nepal’s Gandaki province between 2018 and 2022 yields interesting results. When there is no collusion, both bidding methods produce similar results. The average bid method, on the other hand, is subject to collusion, whereas the standard deviation bid method is not. To address the constraints associated with low bids, a cautious recommendation for the average bid method is made, along with vigilance against collusion. The standard deviation bid method, on the other hand, emerges as an effective obstacle to collusive behavior. To enhance the bid procedures, the study encourages for additional qualification criteria such as financial weighting and enhanced performance bonds. These amendments to Nepal’s Public Procurement Act (PPA) and Public Procurement Regulation (PPR) of 2007 are intended to address issues raised by low bids. The importance of e-bidding practices is highlighted for digital transformation and corruption prevention. The study emphasizes the importance of putting in place mechanisms to detect collusion across bid selection methods. The research concludes with an invitation for experimental exploration of the Standard Deviation Bidding Method (SDBM), with an evaluation of its efficiency across time, cost, and quality domains. This investigation has the potential to reveal the best bid selection methodology for construction projects.

The degree of science - technical innovation has helped the advancement of the digital economy to some extent, and it has emerged as a new economic form that is flourishing in China. This article builds a theoretical framework of science - technical innovation, government spending, and the digital economy, verifies the mechanisms of the three, and utilizes pertinent data from 282 prefecture level cities in China from 2011 to 2019 to present the intermediate impact model. The study reveals that: (1) government spending and technological innovation play a significant role in promoting the advancement of the digital economy; (2) as an intermediary variable, government spending serves as an important conduit for the transmission of technological innovation's effects; and (3) the effect of these factors on the industrial structure. (4) The impact of science - technical innovation on the advancement of the digital economy is regionally heterogeneous.

In today's global society, a large number of Thai people, working in Thailand, are managed by expats from western cultures. The resulting management challenges exist in all offices in Thailand that are managed by expats, both foreign companies and Thai companies. Many expat managers are not familiar with Thai cultural norms, but due to the Asean Economic Community, Thailand is becoming more open to foreign investment, including foreign companies establishing operations within Thailand. Overcoming cross-cultural misunderstandings will enable expat managers and Thai staff to communicate more successfully, and thus achieve their business purposes. Although all expat managers should receive appropriate cultural training before beginning their management assignment in Thailand, it is unclear how many managers actually receive specialized training, or how effective the training is. Because cross-cultural encounters are unavoidable when communicating in an international setting, all managers should use innovative management techniques to address cultural challenges. Once again, it is not clear how many managers actually use effective techniques. The level of technological and non-technological innovation may reflect the level of organizational innovation management employed by the company. Without the use of innovative techniques, managers will struggle to handle the unique challenges of managing a Thai staff. This paper provides some preliminary information on the types of problems that expat managers must address on a regular basis, problems such as culture shock, diversity in communication styles, hierarchy in Thai organizations, and how expats perform innovation employee management. The research goal of this study is to determine which innovation techniques are similar among the target companies, which companies employ different or unusual innovation techniques, and which companies do not use any of the well-known innovation techniques.

The interplay between technological innovation, financial development, energy consumption and natural resource rents in the BRICS economies: Evidence from GMM panel VAR

Small medium enterprises occupy an important position in an economic development, and the strength of technical innovation ability is directly related to a country's overall scientific and technological innovation. Considering about the characteristics of small medium enterprises, the paper, first of all, analysis the small medium enterprises' technical innovation's necessity and feasibility. On this basis, it sorts out the surveying data of typical provincial, and summarize the situation of technological innovation of small medium enterprises in China. And then, it points out the suggestion of promoting technological innovation, and provides the theoretical basis for technological innovation's policies.

Linking investment decisions-based on firm performance and open innovation practices in Vietnam’s wire and cable market using data envelopment analysis models

The current research attempts to determine the degree to which three primary elements (Human, Structural, and relational capital) and intellectual capital are related to profitability of SMEs technological inventions in China’s Jiangsu province of as part of the country’s intellectualization process in the post-industrial era. The research utilizes data from 1,450 SME listings on the Shenzhen stock market between 2012 and 2020. The VAICTM model was used in this inquiry. Using PLS-SEM, the study evaluated four significant hypotheses. The research indicates that human and structural capital have a substantial meaningful correlation regarding SMEs success. The research also discovered a favorable association between human and structural capital and technological innovation in Jiangsu province throughout the post-industrial period. However, a strong negative correlation occurred between relational capital and the financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The research uncovered a substantial positive relationship between the technological innovation of SMEs and their financial success. The link between intellectual capital (HC, SC, and RC) and company performance was shown to be mediated and moderated by technological innovation. According to the findings, technical innovation considerably moderates the link between Human Capital and firm performance. The research indicated that Technical Innovation (TI) moderates the association between Structural Capital (RC) and firm performance. In contrast, Technical Innovation (TI) does not alter the association between Relational Capital (RC) and firm success in a substantial way.

In the era of the rapid development of knowledge economy and science, all countries have thought highly of technical innovation and greatly increased the R&D input for it. However, the research on the impact of R&D input on technical innovation lacks specialized, cross-country, and cross-time investigations, and especially, the research on small countries such as South Asia and Southeast Asia where technical innovation is relatively backward. So, does R&D input in South Asia and Southeast Asia have an impact on technical innovation and to what extent? Let us analyze the panel data of 18 countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia from 2001 to 2018, use three methods of unit root test to test the stationarity of variables, adopt the Kao cointegration test to test a stable long-term relationship between the variables, and then, respectively, carry out the transnational regression analysis of the difference between patent applications, scientific journal articles, and the R&D input with multiple models. Finally, the heteroscedasticity robust fixed-effect model is found to be the most suitable for this study after the comparative analysis of multiple models. Through the fixed-effect intercepts of each country in the heteroscedasticity robust fixed-effect models, South Asian and Southeast Asian countries are divided into three levels, and each level lists a set of equations. So, the following conclusions are drawn: both R&D expenditure and manpower input in South Asia and Southeast Asia significantly promote technological innovation; the efficiency of both R&D expenditure and manpower input promoting technological innovation in South Asia and Southeast Asia is low and needs to be improved. These conclusions provide references for policymakers in some countries where technological innovation is relatively backward, especially in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal.

This article analyzes the applicability of Law No. 14.133/2021, known as the "New Bidding Law," in comparison with Law No. 8.666/1993, which regulated public bidding in Brazil for nearly three decades. Using a qualitative approach based on bibliographic research, the study explores the main changes and innovations introduced by the new legislation, such as the inclusion of competitive dialogue and greater integration of technology in the bidding process. The results indicate that Law No. 14.133/2021 aims to reduce bureaucracy and modernize the system, promoting greater transparency and efficiency in public procurement. However, challenges remain in the implementation phase, as public agencies are still adapting to the new requirements. This study contributes to the academic debate by providing a detailed comparative analysis and highlighting the impacts of the new legislation in the context of Brazilian public management.

Mutated market conditions, the advent of new players and digital technologies, and a significant regulatory push, are profoundly changing the banking industry. The digital transformation is not really a pure technological revolution. Indeed, it is the driving force of the new business revolution, where the increased usage of digital devices is transforming the way customers do their banking, changing market expectations, and in doing so value creation and value delivery in the banking and financial industry are both under a deep transformation. Value is created in platforms through economies of scale and scope in blending innovation at both production and distribution levels. The banking business models may shift significantly from a pipeline, products verticals paradigm, to Open Banking models and business ecosystems. Banks can develop their own one system or join others. All are characterized by higher levels of openness towards third parties. Under the umbrella name of Open Banking, there are plenty of opportunities to look at and decide what fits better for a given organization. The first part of the chapter explores how far the evolution of FinTech in the banking arena is going and how regulation, technology innovation are changing the industry towards an Open Banking paradigm. In the second part business platforms and ecosystems are analysed and it is suggested that strategists can not longer take their value chains as a given but must cope with a market where to evolve and be resilient are mandatory elements in strategic planning.

A number of studies have pointed to a plateauing of athletic performance, with the suggestion that further improvements will need to be driven by revolutions in technology or technique. In the present study, we examine post-war men's Olympic performance in jumping events (pole vault, long jump, high jump, triple jump) to determine whether performance has indeed plateaued and to present techniques, derived from models of human growth, for assessing the impact of technological and technical innovation over time (logistic and double logistic models of growth). Significantly, two of the events involve well-documented changes in technology (pole material in pole vault) or technique (the Fosbury Flop in high jump), while the other two do not. We find that in all four cases, performance appears to have plateaued and that no further “general” improvement should be expected. In the case of high jump, the double logistic model provides a convenient method for modelling and quantifying a performance intervention (in this case the Fosbury Flop). However, some shortcomings are revealed for pole vault, where evolutionary post-war improvements and innovation (fibre glass poles) were concurrent, preventing their separate identification in the model. In all four events, it is argued that further general growth in performance will indeed need to rely predominantly on technological or technical innovation.

This study investigates whether technological innovation and the consumption of renewable energy tend to reduce the emissions of CO2 in the USA by analyzing datasets from January 2010 to May 2022. The main contribution to this study is that we applied a cross-quantile approach, which possesses several strengths compared to other methods used for directional predictability. The empirical results of this research can be concluded as three points: (1) both the consumption of renewable energy and technological innovation significantly and negatively impacted the emissions of CO2 in the short run (i.e., 1month) across high quantiles, which gradually diminished over time (i.e., 3months, 12months, and 24months), implying that technological innovation and the consumption of renewable energy possess a short-lived effect on CO2 emissions, respectively; (2) this relationship remains significant for causal links spanning 1 and 3months and 1 and 2years when the consumption of renewable energy and technological innovation are treated as control variables respectively; (3) a recursive cross-quantilogram was constructed to support further our findings, which showed that the consumption of renewable energy and technological innovation tend to negatively impact the emissions of CO2 across all quantiles. These results imply that an increase in the consumption of renewable energy and technological innovation can curb CO2 emissions in the USA; these effects tend to be more lasting when technological innovation and the consumption of renewable energy are combined. Therefore, future policies focused on curbing the emissions of CO2 should pay attention to the combined effect, which is the promotion of technological innovation and the exploitation of renewable energy sources in the USA.