Can We Co-Construct a Field of Management / Administration Engaged with the Majority?

Faria, Alexandre; Abdalla, Márcio Moutinho; Guedes, Ana Lucia

doi:10.1590/1984-92302021v28n9804EN

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Article • Organ. Soc. 28 (98) • Jul-Sep 2021 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-92302021v28n9804EN copy

Can We Co-Construct a Field of Management / Administration Engaged with the Majority?

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Abstract

Dynamics contrary to the life of the majority mobilized by neo-imperial neo-liberal capitalism evolving toward neo-fascist populism has become virtually invisible to the field of Management/Administration, which is driven by dynamics of appropriation-contention focused on alternatives and transmodern epistemes of the emerging South-East. We analyze this picture of radicalization of global coloniality within the context of counterrevolutionary neoliberalism facing dynamics of dewesternization and decoloniality from a South-North dialogue between Decolonial Theory/Option and Critical Realism. By proposing a critical/decolonial transmodern framework, we unveil dynamics of invisibilization/visibilization against the life of the majority, invisibilized by market sub-theorization and dominant discourse and by the liberal university and its business/management schools. In the end, we propose to recover the expanded relevance of “administration/management” engaged with the majority, through reappropriation dynamics based on de-subalternization of non-market and ‘de-celebration’ of free market.

decolonial theory; critical realism; transmodernity; neoliberalism; colonialism

	Critical Realism	Decoloniality
Main conceptual characteristics	Discover and distinguish visible and invisible constituents of the stratified reality; the discovery of causal mechanisms invisibilized by modern science (including the field of management/administration) requires continuous vertical de-invisiblization	Un-veil lasting dynamics of coloniality denied by Eurocentric modernity and its radical rearticulation on a global scale by neo-imperial neoliberalism (including the field of management/administration and Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism)
On dynamics of visiblization/invisiblization via market/non-market discourses	The epistemic visibilization of Market and non-market invisibilizes the stratifies reality and enable privileged agents to shape reality through invisibilization of critical-decolonial dynamics of liberation-emancipation on a global scale which coexist with radicalization of counterrevolutionary mechanisms of appropriation-containment against the majority. The radicalization of coloniality in the North/West and of respective dynamics anti-essentialism/separatism dynamics of appropriation-containment hyper-visibilize market discourses and invisibilize to researchers and the majority the growing relevance of transmodern práxis of solidary reappropriation on a global scale.
On restoring of a more public field engaged with the majority	Research-beyond-science might dis-cover the invisibilized levels of stratified reality by means of a liberating-emancipating expanded criterion of plausibility and intersubjectivity engaged with the majority, from a theoretical-practical perspective which recognizes both DT and CR as epistemes-materialities of emancipation-decolonization and oppression-colonization. Research engaged with the majority might recognize and des-invisibilize coexisting dynamics, such as liberation-emancipation and decolonization-recolonization, which underpin the historical coexistence of a field of Management/Administration engaged with the majority with a dominating field predominantly against the majority.

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[1] Authorship

Alexandre Faria Alexandre Faria is Associate Professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas / Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil. PhD in Industrial and Business Studies at Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. E-mail: alex.faria@fgv.br

Márcio Moutinho Abdalla Márcio Moutinho Abdalla is professor in the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration - Professional Master in Business Administration at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda - RJ, Brazil. PhD in Administration by Fundação Getúlio Vargas. E-mail: marcioabdalla@id.uff.br

Ana Lucia Guedes Ana Lucia Guedes is Academic Coordinator / Researcher of the Public Policy Analysis Directorate (DAPP) of Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil. Ph.D. in International Relations by London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE. E-mail: ana.guedes@fgv.br

Authors’ contributions

First author: conception (leader), investigation (equal), supervision (leader), writing – original draft (equal), writing – reviewing and editing (equal).

Second author: conception (support), investigation (equal), supervision (support), writing – original draft (equal), writing – reviewing and editing (equal).

Third author: conception (support), investigation (equal), supervision (support), writing – original draft (equal), writing – reviewing and editing (equal).