Contributions of governance for a new post-bureaucratic model. A vision from local public management

Abstract

The purpose of the research has been to interpret the contribution of governance within the new post-bureaucratic model in local public management, having as a unit of study the Decentralized Autonomous Government of the San Vicente canton of the Province of Manabí (Ecuador); the design of the research is phenomenological-interpretative type with a qualitative approach,  with a descriptive depth, being in turn field and not experimental, the documentary review was proposed as a strategy for obtaining theoretical postulates, reports and stories narrated by the key informants (interviewees); in turn, the analysis strategy was based on the phases proposed by the Grounded Theory,  in which the substantive codes, axial codes, substantive concepts are represented until reaching the central category; as well as the use of hermeneutic praxis (analytical-interpretative) in order to give interpretative form to the discourse expressed by the interviewees -academic experts and researchers- through an in-depth interview. Among the findings found is the central category called: post-bureaucracy of local public management from managerial and technological innovation, which is proposed as a proposal of good practice for local public management, this arose from the triangulation between the revised theory, the discursive narrative of the key informants and the criteria of the researchers, giving space to symbolic interactionism. Among the main reflections is to prepare for a new public administration in which virtuality and artificial intelligence will be present.