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The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of donors in the organization of governance practices of sponsored projects in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from an agency theory perspective. For this, the sponsored project was understood as a temporary organization. The study relied on data collected through document survey in contracts and call for tenders for project support, and on semi-structured interviews with executives from donor organizations in a Latin America country. The study found that the governance of NGOs is impacted by temporary governance derived from projects. In turn, the projects are circumvented by aspects of compliance and enforcement through pressure from donors, and transferring donor management processes to NGOs produces two shadows over NGOs: (a) there is a public organizations' influence of laws, norms and actions of state decentralization that demands NGOs to organize themselves like the State; and, (b) on the corporate donors side, an organization aligned with business is required.

RESUMOOrganizações utilizam projetos como forma de implementar mudanças e de gerar novos produtos e/ou serviços. Estudos sobre projetos são tradicionalmente sistemáticos e focam em processos, metodologias e ferramentas que se preocupam em aspectos técnicos do que nos aspectos práticos, muitas vezes negligenciando totalmente os atores envolvidos nas atividades cotidianas. As teorias da prática preocupam-se em como as práticas são forjadas em um contexto individual e social. Este ensaio teórico explora essa lacuna e faz um recorte das práticas em projetos apresentando uma análise sob a lente das teorias da prática de como estas se formam em projetos e como são perpetuadas através de uma das mais importantes e recentes teorias sociais: as teorias de Theodore Schatzki. Concluise que projetos, por serem temporários, são fontes ricas de práticas inovadoras, porém apresentam formas complexas de organizar e perpetuar suas práticas cotidianas.Palavras-chave: Gerenciamento de Projetos. Teorias de Schatzki. Teorias da Prática. Organizações Temporárias. ANALYZING PROJECTS THROUGH PRACTICE: A THEORETICAL ESSAY ABSTRACTOrganizations use projects as a way to implement change and to generate new products and / or services. Studies about projects are traditionally systematic and focus on processes, methodologies and tools that are more concerned with technical factors than with practical aspects often neglecting completely the actors involved in the daily activities. Theories of practice are concerned about how the practices are forged in an individual and social context. This theoretical essay explores this gap and provides theoretical reflection of the practices in projects presenting an analysis with the lens of the practical theories of how the practices are formed in projects and how they are perpetuated through one of the most important and recent social theories: Theodore Schatzki theories. It is concluded that projects to be temporary, are rich sources of innovative practices, but have complex ways of organizing and perpetuating their daily practices.

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