Administration, management, and public policies: interfaces and dialogues with the organizational field

[...]the network model is based on the democratic principle of direct participation and collaboration, promoting collaborative (or contractual) governance with different actors (profit or non-profit) and citizens in general. [...]the large Brazilian state-owned companies (characterized with "bras" in their names), dominant in several economic and industrial sectors, generated regional inequalities and technocracy expansion. [...]a growing number of civil society organizations emerged, recognized as social organizations (called OS, they are private organizations that establish contracts with the government to carry out public services), civil society organizations of public interest (called OSCIPS, they are private institutions that carry out activities of public interest and may establish partnerships and receive grants from the government), and other non-protit organizations. Paradoxically, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the central role of public management and a professional bureaucracy, which needs to revive mechanisms of decision-making autonomy, strengthen itself in an environment of cooperation and federative coordination, and undergo qualitative changes that eliminate bureaucratic distortions and favor its legitimacy and action power (Peci & Teixeira, 2021).