Who Is Management Research For?

Abstract

Objective: this paper was written as an essay in a proposition from Adorno, as well as a text influenced by critical and Philosophical hermeneutic. It presents a fundamental question that we have rehearsed: Who is Management research for? Provocations: we take as a basis the reflection on the discursive and social differences between the academic field and the world of meaning of management practitioners, to realize how contradictory our practices and institutionalized structures of communication become, as they do not meet the fundamental objective of science, that is, the transformation of the reality in which it focuses. Conclusions: the hermeticism of our area is not an unsolvable problem, it is enough to see that in other fields the applicability of scientific knowledge happens. Our community needs to wake up to this, before society realizes that, as it is, we are expendable.

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“…In contrast, the utility can be divided into scientific utility when the theory is used to advance the academic discussion and practical utility when it is used to improve organizational practice. Vizeu and Lara (2023) ask an interesting question: “To whom do we write?” In their argument, they say that Management scholars must write not only for themselves, but academic writing must get involved with the managerial practice. The research goal must be an advance in theory and an arduous evolution in administrative procedures with the knowledge produced by the scholarly activity.…”