“…With the purpose of answering this question, many published academic texts have circulated at a certain time, and they address this issue with different arguments, such as the need for a complementary relationship between theory and practice in the Management field (Van de Ven, 1989) or the denial of this dichotomy (Bispo, 2021), the lack of dialogue and communicative connection between research in the area with practitioners and real local problems (Lazzarini, 2017), the impossibility of social sciences neutrality and the impact of 'neutral' scientific knowledge on society (Alperstedt & Andion, 2017), the importation of knowledge without reflexivity applied to the local context and its innocuous character (Bertero et al, 1999), the harmful impact of a subservience to the international context (Alcadipani, 2017), especially taking into account the need to solve local problems (Bertero et al, 1999;Goulart & Carvalho, 2008;Lazzarini, 2017), the social impact of an interdisciplinary configuration academic knowledge, which is constituted of an epistemological and paradigmatic pluralism (Bispo, 2022) that offers political conditions to integrate itself more closely with the society problems (Alperstedt & Andion, 2017). These are some of the positions taken in this debate on the role of Management academic-scientific knowledge.…”