This dissertation project aims to develop a Scientific Publishing Glossary designed to identify and prevent the misappropriation of scientific articles in journals published by Brazilian public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The research is grounded in the recognition that practices such as misappropriation of authorship, sophisticated plagiarism, metadata manipulation, and the activity of paper mills pose growing threats to the national scientific ecosystem, particularly within public and institutional journals. Methodologically, the study is characterized as applied research with a qualitative approach, based on document analysis, the mapping of indicators of misappropriation practices in Brazilian journals, and the systematization of terms essential to editorial work. The expected results include the provision of a reference glossary to assist editors, editorial boards, and public managers in recognizing, naming, and appropriately addressing different forms of misconduct, thereby strengthening governance, transparency, and editorial compliance practices. From a practical perspective, the glossary will serve as a tool for training and language standardization, enabling editorial teams—often composed of non-specialist staff—to access objective definitions culturally adapted to the Brazilian context. Finally, the research reaffirms the role of Public Administration in protecting scientific integrity, viewing science as a public good and acknowledging that public HEI journals are crucial for preserving the credibility of national academic production.

The oversight of outsourced service contracts with exclusive labor dedication is a strategicactivity for public governance, especially after Law No. 14.133/2021 and Normative InstructionSEGES/ME nº 05/2017, which expanded the duties of contract inspectors and managers. Evenso, little is understood about how these agents exercise discretion when implementing suchrules. This research aimed to understand how contract inspectors and managers at IFRNCampus Currais Novos exercise this discretion in the oversight of continuous services and tocollaboratively produce a casebook of cases and dilemmas to support critical reflection on thesepractices. It was grounded in the street-level bureaucracy perspective (Lipsky, 2010; Lotta,2010), which recognizes discretion as inherent to implementation work under scarce resourcesand ambiguous goals. A short-cycle collaborative action research was adopted, qualitative andapplied, through a single case study, with five participants (three inspectors and two managers)from a census universe of six designated agents. Data collection combined documentaryanalysis of six contracts, semi-structured interviews, and a feedback seminar, and the analysisarticulated content analysis, a gap analysis across the prescribed, instrumentalized, andpracticed planes, and collective communicative validation. The results revealed a robustnormative framework and disclosed three modes of oversight under the same rules: silence,contained competence, and rupture. The coexistence of these modes showed that the gapbetween the prescribed and the practiced stems not from noncompliance or the absence of rules,but from the conditions under which the instruments are used, notably the lack of training. Asa technical product, the Casebook of Cases and Dilemmas, collectively built and validated,translates the dispersed normative repertoire and opens to deliberation what the rules do notexhaust. It is concluded that improving oversight does not require multiplying rules, butrecognizing discretion as inherent and providing agents with the means to exercise it withgreater awareness, consistency, and security.

The increasing demand for professional qualification and innovation in sanitation services has led many companies in the sector to invest in corporate universities. Therefore, the present study aimed to elaborate a Guide for Strategic Planning of Corporate Universities for state-owned sanitation companies, in line with the directives of the New Legal Framework for Sanitation (Law n° 14.026/2020). The study adopted a methodology that included bibliographic review and documentary analysis of books, scientific journals, reports from the National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA), and the regulatory framework for sanitation. A multi-method approach was applied for the identification and prioritization of competence gaps. The study proposed a pedagogical model that adopts active methodologies for talent development. In conclusion, the study indicates Corporate Universities as strategic responses for the development of critical competencies, serving as an instrument of modernization catalyzed by the new regulatory demands. The developed Technical Product offers state-owned sanitation companies the proposal of applicable methodologies and a learning management model. It establishes itself as a reference for the implementation or improvement of corporate training programs.