An Anti-Management Statement in Dialogue With Critical Brazilian Authors

Abstract

AN ANTI-MANAGEMENT STATEMENT IN DIALOGUE WITH CRITICAL BRAZILIAN AUTHORS Uma declaração anti-management em diálogo com autores de estudos críticos brasileiros Una declaración anti-management en diálogo con autores de estudios críticos brasileños ABSTRACTThe expressions Management and Organization Studies and Management and Organization Knowledge are expressions of an Anglo-Saxon construct. The association of Organization Studies (OS) with Management (M) produces the subordination of the former to the latter. In a different direction, a critical approach elaborated in Brazilian OS provides an original body of knowledge that expresses an anti-management (A-M) attitude. As the Brazilian A-M authors point out, the distinction between North/South M is irrelevant; what is relevant is a coherent pluriversal A-M attitude. In this paper, we honor and disseminate the Brazilian original body of knowledge on OS and introduce an OS agenda that is liberated from M.KEYWORDS | Organization studies, anti-management, organization, social struggles, critique. RESUMO As expressões Estudos Organizacionais e Management e Conhecimento Organizacional e Management são expressões de um construto anglo-saxão. A associação dos Estudos Organizacionais (EOs) com Management produz a subordinação do primeiro ao último. Em outra direção, os EOs críticos brasileiros oferecem um conhecimento original que expressa uma atitude anti-management (A-M). Os autores A-M brasileiros indicam que a distinção entre M do Norte ou do Sul é irrelevante; o que é relevante é uma atitude A-M coerente. Neste artigo, honramos e disseminamos o conhecimento original brasileiro nos EOs e introduzimos uma agenda de EOs liberados do M. PALAVRAS-CHAVE | Estudos organizacionais, anti-management, organização, lutas sociais, crítica. RESUMEN Las expresiones Estudios Organizacionales y Management y Conocimiento Organizacional y Management son expresiones de un constructo anglosajón. La asociación de los Estudios Organizacionales (EOs) con Management produce la subordinación del primero al último. En otra dirección, los EOs críticos brasileños ofrecen un conocimiento original que expresa una actitud anti-management (A-M). Los autores A-M brasileños indican que la distinción entre M del Norte o del Sur es irrelevante; lo que es relevante es una actitud A-M coherente. En este artículo, honramos y diseminamos el conocimiento original brasileño en los EOs e introducimos una agenda de EOs liberados del M. PALABRAS-CLAVE | Estudios organizacionales, anti-management, organización, luchas sociales, crítica. RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas | FGV-EAESP

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“…As has already been widely recorded, the Brazilian critical tradition in OS (Misoczky, Flores, & Goulart, 2015;Paula, 2015;Paula, Maranhão, & Barreto, 2010) authorizes and even provokes us to go beyond a self-limited critique (Klikauer, 2015) and to value OS as a space in which, despite its growing colonization by management, there is the possibility of creating paths based on an ethical critique and also based on our own reality, taking into account the struggles against business and management technologies that negatively impact the production and reproduction of life and ways of life in relation to nature.…”

A Solution Through Praxis? Reflections About the Ivory Tower Metaphor and the Indissociability Between Theory and Practice in Organizational Studies

“…More recently, the organizational studies have highlighted a new generation of authors such as José Henrique de Faria, as acknowledged by Misoczky, Flores and Goulart (2015). It is also worth highlighting that researchers such as Maria Ceci Misoczky and Ana Paula Paes de Paula are important to this study due to their many contributions to critical organizational studies (it is necessary to clarify that the theoretical approaches by Faria, Misoczky and Paes de Paula have several differences; however, they are critical).…”

“…According to the epistemological and methodological perspective, it is possible to do researches such as participant observations, action-researches, ethnographies and many others (we do not seek to define them, just to exemplify them) as long as they are guided by the integration between theory and practice through praxis and aim at emancipation. It is worth to highlight research strategies such as the Critical Epistemology of the Concrete (Faria, 2014), the Freudo--Frankfurtian Approach (Paes de Paula, 2013) and the Anti-Management Studies (Misoczky, Flores, & Goulart, 2015), since they meet our assumptions. In addition to the research, in everyday life, "[...] we can use our academic positions as a pulpit from which to engage campaigns in words and deeds against the corporate world's malfeasance" (Adler, 2002, p. 390) -the researcher may be involved in resistance theories and practices (Misoczky, Flores, & Böhm, 2008).…”

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“…Essa percepção do contexto da gestão só é possível de ser observado através da atitude decolonial (Maldonado-Torres, 2007) que exige do/a pesquisador/a um deslocamento reflexivo e crítico que ajuda a compreender que tanto a área dos EOR, quanto a área de estudos sobre o conhecimento organizacional e de gestão, surgiram e permaneceram dentro da lógica do mercado capitalista (Misoczky, Flores, & Goulart, 2015) com a pretensão de subordinar saberes, conhecimentos e práticas de gestão outras, insurgentes e translocais. Na obra literária, o herói sem nenhum caráter também não tem uma identidade única, mas várias.…”