Co-Production of Management Knowledge in/From Emerging Countries and Societies

Abstract

In an era of decolonization and empire, the management field embraced the US-led neoliberal counterrevolution and challenged the Eurocentric theory-practice hierarchy to produced relevant knowledge through managed learning theories. This contested reformist and market-centric management revolution (MR) against the threat of “reverse relevance” fostered by emerging/resurging barbarians subalternizes Southern theories-practices of the multifaceted field of development administration-management (DA) and de-develops the global majority by privileging large corporations and transnational elites. MR expanded in the 1990s through a post-Washington Consensus social perspective based on re-Westernalizing whitening appropriation-containment dynamics of developmental neoliberalisms and Southern counter-hegemonic movements informed by dewesternization and decolonial dynamics which challenge-reaffirm racial capitalism structures. In an Age of Development, MR was re-organized in the 2000s in response to “irresponsible” hybridisms in emerging countries and societies triggered by Southern learning-unlearning-relearning dynamics. This article investigates the Southern co-production of relevant knowledge in Brazil through subversive complicity, focused on a privileged organization-school nexus. Analysis shows how managers and researchers (re)mobilize Southern theories-practices to co-produce relevant knowledge from a transformational-reformist perspective. In the end, the article presents discussions and suggestions for collectively re-appropriating Southern relevant knowledge engaged with the ‘other’ in emerging/resurging societies in both the South and North.

A Mudança Estratégica Das Economias Em Desenvolvimento Para a Produção E a Industrialização: O Papel Das Instituições Informais

“…A condição periférica dentro do sistema capitalista moderno mundial -sustentada desde há muito tempo por estruturas de diferenciação colonial defendidas pelo Norte Global (que se mostra cada vez mais heterogêneo e desigual) sob a liderança dos EUA -evidencia a necessidade de desenvolver as sociedades em todo o mundo, promovendo instituições e políticas transformadoras e abraçando as tradições acadêmicas que vão além das dicotomias Norte-Sul e desenvolvimentosubdesenvolvimento (Bhambra, 2020;Furtado, 1964;Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2020;Santos, 1970). O campo dos Estudos de Organização e Gestão também precisa ultrapassar essa dicotomia (Alcadipani et al, 2012;Faria, 2023;Jammulamadaka et al, 2021;Nkomo, 2015;Wanderley & Barros, 2019). A ressignificação desse desenho de produção/consumo envolve possibilidades transformadoras que vão além da institucionalização contemporânea de injustiças, desigualdades e impossibilidades em escala global como o único caminho para o desenvolvimento, especialmente o sustentável.…”

Strategic Shift of Developing Economies to Production and Industrialization: The Role of Informal Institutions

“…This peripheric condition within the modern capitalist world system, long sustained by structures of colonial differentiation championed by the increasingly heterogeneous and unequal US-led Global North, highlights the need for developing societies all over to foster transformative institutions and policies, and embrace scholarship traditions which move beyond North-South and developmentunderdevelopment divides (Bhambra, 2020;Furtado, 1964;Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2020;Santos, 1970). The field of Management and Organization Studies also needs to move beyond this dichotomous divide (Alcadipani et al, 2012;Faria, 2023;Jammulamadaka et al, 2021;Nkomo, 2015;Wanderley & Barros, 2019). Such reframing of this production/consumption design embodies transformative possibilities that move beyond the contemporary institutionalization of injustices, inequalities, and impossibilities on a global scale as the only way towards development, especially one that is sustainable.…”