The crisis of power and the futures of hope

Introduction: Critical Approaches to Comparative Studies in Organizations: From Current Management Knowledge to Emerging Agendas

“…Therefore, to restore the authority and legitimacy of government and public organizations and their main strategists, it is necessary to reformulate strategic management in order to transcend the traditional boundaries of management knowledge. This article attempts to re‐create management knowledge from a critical interdisciplinary approach, indicating that concepts traditionally defined in the narrow context of business and corporations can be reconceptualized with the complicity of other social disciplines to analyze the realm of the state and other social spaces (Misoczky, ).…”

“…Some researchers prefer to work inside the limits of their established approaches and “truths”; they can live in its self‐imposed confinement, imagining that the world is the narrow and particular place they inhabit. This special feature of the journal attempts to open windows to infuse management knowledge with fresh air that recognizes the diversity and complexity of a world made of many worlds (Dussel & Ibarra‐Colado, ; Misoczky, ). It is up to you, the reader, to determine if our efforts are successful.…”