The City Exists and Resists: Expanding Organizational Dynamics

Abstract

The approach to cities in management studies has gone in new directions since the publication of various seminal works in Brazil (Fischer, 1996(Fischer, , 1997Mac-Allister, 2004) aimed at incorporating social, political, economic, and cultural issues into the realm of management studies that take into account a symbolic, critical and context-sensitive perspective. Bearing in mind the need for more discussions on the interdisciplinarity that can link the topic of cities with perspectives taken from administrative sciences, Cities and Organizational Studies: a necessary debate summarizes academic production and looks at the effort to expand this debate in academia. In view of the urgent need to understand the urban space and the production of the city through different lenses, including Organizational Studies, this work considers the city as an organization with its different organizational processes that are associated with practical knowledge and a reflective management view.