Campos nos estudos organizacionais: abordagens relacionais?

Abstract

Palavras-chave: Teoria das organizações; Institucionalismo; Poder nas organizações; Dinâmica organizacional.Abstract: This paper analyzes how different approaches of organizational analysis use the notion of 'field'. The philosophical grounds and proposals that motivated the usage of this concept in the social sciences, associated to a specific relational approach illustrated by the sociological approach of Bourdieu, are taken as a reference. Identifying the genesis and paying particular attention to the configuration of scientific concepts in this approach, theoretical tools of sociological institutionalism in organizational analysis and the strategic action field approach are discussed. The paper concludes that overcoming limitations commonly associated to neoinstitutionalism involves reconfiguring its conceptual tools. A broader and more flexible concept of field, intrinsically articulated with conceptions of action and power, is considered to be particularly relevant.

The hidden experience of nursing professionals sued for error

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Environmental Assessment of the UHE Tijuco Alto Hydropower Plant: the change of the dominant order

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Diffusion of operational capabilities knowledge: The social skills perspective

“…Field theories have been increasingly influential in organization studies as they represent an alternative to both rational individualist and functionalist perspectives (Martin, 2003;Candido et al, 2018). While the approach is in line with the interpretative paradigm of the study of organizations, which claims that the social sciences deal with phenomena that are subjective and open to interpretation (Morgan, 2005), it recognizes, in line with Durkheim (2002) idea of social fact, that widely shared interpretations about certain aspects may get "naturalized" in the multiple instances of social life, becoming objectified.…”

“…The definition of these shared references that enable collective action entails power relations. While in specific field theories, power relations are viewed in a negative vein, the strategic action field approach emphasizes the positive character of power as a facilitator of cooperation (Candido et al, 2018). In this sense, fields can be defined as "a social arena, where something is at stake and actors come to engage in social action with other actors under a set of common understandings and with a set of resources that help define the social positions in the field" (Fligstein, 2013, p.41).…”