Institutional governance strategies. An opportunity for transparency in public companies Study unit: E.P. Corporacion Nacional de Electricidad (CNEL), Manabí Province

Abstract

The purpose of the research has been to interpret how institutional governance contributes to transparency in public companies; accompanied by the following guidelines: Identify the principles of governance that enable transparency, and reflect on the actions of the public company from an institutional governance perspective. The approach to research has been from a phenomenology-interpretative research design, with a qualitative approach, whose level is descriptive, in addition to having an inductive and constructivist dimension, sustained from the documentary, field and non-experimental; the method of analysis used is represented by the phases established by the grounded theory (Strauss and Corbin), it was applied to the process of constant comparison and triangulation of the information collected (direct observation, documents and discourse of the interviewees). The unit under study is represented by Public Entreprise Corporacion Nacional de Electricidad (CNEL), Province of Manabí. Through the use of the hermeneutical method, a greater process of understanding, understanding and interpretation of the narrative of the key informants and their corresponding association with the topics addressed has been achieved, such as: Governance and public companies, and relationship with institutional transparency. The research, apart from showing substantive findings, also shows how a new managerial paradigm (governance) can contribute to the instructions of public administration, generating a proposal called: Institutional governance as managerial praxis in Public Companies.