Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Over the past ten years, the expansion of higher education in Brazil, through different public policies, has increased the need for a greater number of professors. However, the efforts to prepare professors have not accompanied this increase either in rate or quality, as graduate pro­grams tend to prioritize training for research. One of the few moments – often overlooked by post-graduate programs – focused on preparing future professors is internship, where students practice teaching in graduation courses, supervised by professors (JOAQUIM, NASCIMENTO, BOAS et al., 2011; JOAQUIM and BOAS, 2011; SANTOS and HELAL, 2013). Believing that internships provide a rich environment for post-grad­uation student’s learning, this study aims to present elements typical of this activity. To do, we reflected on an internship based on discussions between a supervisor professor and the student, recorded in the student’s class diaries during the course of the internship and presented here in form of a confessional tale (VAN MAANEN, 1995, 2011, 2015). From the internship experience and the theoretical readings, three points were highlighted: the process of preparing post-graduate students to teach in higher education and the dilemmas they face in prepa­ration for teaching and research; technical aspects (planning, execution and evaluation) of internship; and the experience of internship as a way of mutual learning, in which student and professor discover what it is to carry out this task. Finally, this work does not intend to finish this discussion, but to instigate reflection on teaching methods and academic careers in the national context of practical teaching and research.

In response to an enduring situation of asymmetry and injustice in the field of Management and Organization Studies (MOS), sustained by the radicalization of universalization of Euro-American knowledge, as well as the corresponding subalternation of diverse types of knowledge from the rest of the world, this article analyzes the marginal position and the potential of the decolonial perspective in Brazil. Analysis suggests the co-construction of a broad agenda in MOS in and from Brazil which fosters knowledge and practices informed by the decolonial option from a transcosmopolitan perspective. Taking into account multiple obstacles for the legitimation of alternatives to Eurocentrism and contemporary challenges faced by academics and practitioners within the context of radicalization of hypermodernity, this article highlights the potentialities of the decolonial option to interconnected communities of both victims and builders of alternatives on a global scale. Such decolonial agenda in MOS draws not on a re-articulation of essentialist revisionisms, but on the promotion of transcosmopolitan of advances in three interconnected realms: (a) academic – by fostering multiple political identities from a transmodern perspective; (ii) educational – by rescuing, co-constructing, and legitimizing, and disseminating knowledge connected to local realities and alternatives, and (iii) social – by co-constructing decolonial knowldege engaged with colonial-decolonial dynamics faced by society and academia on a global scale.

 This article analyzes studies published in Brazil that have adopted the theoretical and methodological perspective of actor-network theory (ANT) in organizational studies. Through bibliographic research and bibliometric, sociometric and scientometric mapping, 15 articles were analyzed, all of them published in Brazilian journals considered as A2 in the national Qualis/Capes classification system for quality of academic production (quadrennial 2013-2016), in the field of knowledge ‘Administration, Accounting and Tourism’. In order to conduct the analysis, mapping and content and contingency analysis techniques were applied. The delineator variables were: articles published per year, journal and author; institutional affiliation of authors; most cited works and authors; cooperation between authors and institutions; cross-reference; nature of study (theoretical or empirical); and study approach. The results highlight the low number of articles published in the selected journals, the gap between the first and the second publication, the most cited authors (Latour and Law), and the relationship adviser/advisee in postgraduate programs as an important social element of the network of cooperation between authors. Despite the constant publication in recent years, the research suggests that there is room for growth, both in terms of number of articles and of networks of cooperation in subjects so far not studied in Brazil, specifically in empirical studies. In conclusion, it is argued that the analyzed publications contributed to the displacement of the dominant models of explaining organizations and to emphasize the role that non-human agents play in the action performed in the network. 

This article aims to describe how certain conceptions of culture have been addressed in the subject Organizational Learning, within the field Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. To do this, the notion of “literary inscription” was used as a methodological principle to analyze intellectual networks in Brazilian studies concerning the procedures to acquire knowledge in organizations. The wires that connect the components of these networks are explored through the analysis of a chapter in a recently published collection intended to provide an overview of the main notions, perspectives, and theoretical and methodological affiliations that rule research focused on learning procedures in public and private organizations across the country. By means of the work under analysis, the construction of a polysemic agenda of uses and interpretations of the term culture is noticed. In the end, data obtained reveal how the movement to incorporate certain perspectives on culture through this subject enabled, over time, certain intellectual flows between Social Sciences and Administration and prevented others.

Regarding the debate on which sort of management – professional or family administration – would more effectively run businesses, this paper discusses the advantages and shortcomings of family and professional management from a theoretical and a practitioner’s viewpoint. The study aims at contributing to our understanding about the superiority that either type of management might have delivering long-term performance and value creation to shareholders. Six investors from top value investment funds were interviewed regarding the management of seven fashion retail Brazilian companies. Data analysis revealed that investors do not prefer either type of management – family or professional – when they make investments. Instead, they do look for specific characteristics and patterns of behavior in a CEO, which resemble Selznick’s (1957) definition of an institutional leader. Finally, the paper suggests a new path of research for scholars (relating old institutionalism and professionalism) and practical guidelines for each type of management (family or professional), offering, therefore, an academic as well as a practical contribution.

This work aims to analyze how the national and international literature has explored variables that impact the perception of political risk within a company’s internationalization process. The lack of specialized bibliography in Brazil and the difficulty for entrepreneurs to plan interna­tionalization, hinder the gathering of clear parameters to measure political risk, as well as making it difficult to set up strategies to mitigate such risks. As a theoretical framework, the literature strand from Kobrin (1978) was used. Kobrin’s settings provided the initial framework to identify the opinions of other authors on the subject. The methodology sought to gather bibliographic content for political risk definition in 41 articles of international journals downloaded from databases available on the Internet and treated through the program Endnotes 6. A content analysis using the software “R” identified “variables” as a sub-theme. The discussion presents the identification of political, eco­nomic and socio-cultural variables that can be quantified in future studies and make it possible to establish the possibility of mitigating risks and succeeding in internationalization processes.

This paper discusses how partnership between local organisations and Government inside governance spaces affects local development. The aim is to raise some critical issues about the concept of partnership and about partnership effectively for municipal development. Thus, the article uses partnership as its central theory. Specifically, it explores to what extent partnership is an effective strategy for local development in areas of historical conflict between local Government and local organisations in Pará State, Brazilian Amazonia. It focuses particularly on the municipality of Igarapé-Açú, located in north-east of Pará State. Igarapé-Açú was chosen because it is a singular case of local organisations and Government partnership since 2008 when a governance space was created to carry out a partnership process called Municipal Development Forum (MDF). Methodologically, the case study was carried out from a qualitative analysis with data gathered from documents and semi-structured interviews with key-informants. The paper shows that the great challenge to build partnerships between local Government and local organisations is not in these actors capacity to represent the state and civil society in a governance forum, but in their capacity to change the local institutional environment to enable this forum to propose changes in terms of rural development. The paper shows that institutional change does not happen rapidly; changes depend on a particular historical context. In conclusion, the case of Igarapé-Açú shows that in an environment where there is great political conflict much time is needed to create links between the rural actors.

This theoretical essay seeks to clarify and synthesize conceptual issues related to resilience in the labor market, as well as to propose an integrated analysis model taking into consideration workers and organizations. An historical review of the concept of resilience was conducted, observing its particularities in the field of Administration and including different levels of analysis. After conceptualizing Organizational Resilience, the study discussed the elements of resilience at the individual and systemic levels, as well as aspects of the context permeating the relationships at the micro and macro levels of analysis, proposing an integrated model of Organizational Resilience analysis. A research agenda is then proposed, embracing methodological aspects and conceptual and thematic connections, in order to contribute to the debate on resilience encompassing highly complex processes that involve different levels of analysis, and are subject to principles not always clear and precise, both for the individual and for the organization.

Conceptual accuracy is a fundamental element in scientific activity. The concept is an abstract representation of reality, allowing to identify the same or similar phenomena, as well as to distinguish different phenomena. This article aims to distinguish the well-established concept of self-management - especially in its social dimension - from management experiences with self-management features and recognized under the concept of Collectivist Organizations of Joint Production - OCPA. In other words, under capitalism, the so-called self-managed enterprises do not constitute self-management. They can be considered as OCPA, which have characteristics of self-managed organizations and present themselves as forms of resistance or alternative models to the system of capital. Social self-management or collectivist organizations formed by producers in association are neither related to a new economy nor to a solidarity economy. Self-management has a social dimension and can only exist in self-managed production units when the social system is self-managed. These organizations with self-management characteristics are related to collectivist management of labor. Under capitalism, some organizations may have, predominantly, self-management characteristics. These organizations are conceptualized here as Collectivist Organizations of Joint Production, and, because they are inserted into the logic of capital, they act as units in the system of capital.

The sustainable, sustainability and sustainable development are remarkable and timely terms at the global level. However as they lack an axiomatic concept, they lead to criticism and doubts in their theoretical application and praxis. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the attributes of sustainable, sustainability and sustainable development to contribute to these concepts. This article is typified as a qualitative, bibliographical, and interpretive study. The databases used were Science Direct, Springer Link, Wiley Online Library, and Google Scholar. The main results show that the research term “sustainable” is  used for solutions to the deterioration of the human-environment system with the help of sustainability and sustainable development. Sustainability measures the level of quality of this system in order to evaluate its distance from what is considered ‘sustainable’. Sustainable development includes strategies to bring the level of sustainability closer to the sustainable human-environment system. The attributes of these terms have distinct meanings and relate to specific praxis, but they converge to a single goal. Thus, an axiomatic concept of these terms assists in praxis to make areas with distinct functions accountable, but with a single final attempt to achieve the idea of a sustainable human-environment system. The aim of this article is to prompt further study on these terms and help in understanding their praxis and theoretical application.