Line of Research: Organizational Studies

The constitution of Business Administration as a field of knowledge was guided by the principles of management - hierarchy, control, instrumental rationality, extraction and appropriation of knowledge - which implied the exclusion of multiple ways of organizing that did not align with these assumptions. This course aims to explore knowledge and practices that go beyond hegemonic Western epistemologies and their forms of management, recognizing in them not only alternatives, but possibilities for broadening and shifting the very understanding of what it means to organize. We start from the assumption that the definition of science, as well as the limits of what is allowed in it, is always a political decision and is therefore marked by power relations. Recognizing other epistemologies/knowledges is a gesture of decolonization of the field of Administration itself.