Bem Viver e Gestão Social: em Busca de um Diálogo Descolonial no Campo dos Estudos Organizacionais

Eduardo Vivian da Cunha; Washington Sousa

Authors

Eduardo Vivian da Cunha Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas - CCSAUniversidade Federal do Cariri - UFCAPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Administração - PPGAUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8721-8835
Washington Sousa UFRN https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-2806

Keywords:

good living, social management , decoloniality, indigenous people

Abstract

Scholars often point out the need of building a Brazilian and Latin American way of thinking in opposition to the Eurocentric, colonial thinking. Based on this premise, the aim of the current study is to encourage reflections about decoloniality through the conciliation of Good Living practices and ideas – based on the original Ecuadorian concept of it – and Social Management attributes. This reflection was mediated by references that mainly derive from Latin American debates about decoloniality and Good Living, as well as from Brazilian debates about critical management studies and social management. In order to do so, confluences and divergences around worldviews contemporaneously built from the indigenous idea of Good Living, shared by Social Management, were synthesized in this study. The herein performed exercise enabled seeing similarities between the worldview encompassed by Good Living and that deriving from the Brazilian debate about Social Management, although with differences limited to applications in different periods-of-time and contexts, as well as in some epistemological premises. Including the decolonial debate in the Social Management scope can help broadening its understanding and action horizon, without compromising or replacing the construction process carried out to date. Finally, a research agenda aimed at broadening this debate should be developed.

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Author Biographies

Eduardo Vivian da Cunha, Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas - CCSAUniversidade Federal do Cariri - UFCAPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Administração - PPGAUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN

PhD in Business Management at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Post-doctorate degree in Business Management at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Permanent professor at Federal University of Cariri (UFCA) and affiliated with the Center for Applied Social Sciences (CCSA). Leader of the research group (CNPq) and knowledge center called “Technological Incubator for Popular and Solidarity Enterprises (ITEPS), at the same university. Currently working in research, extension and cultural projects carried out with indigenous peoples, as well as with solidarity economy groups.

Washington Sousa, UFRN

He holds PhD in Education and completed his doctoral internship at the Institute of Education of University of London. He joined a senior internship at the Royal Holloway of the University of London (RHUL) between 2013 and 2014. He conducted his postdoctoral studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, between 2004 and 2005. He is a full professor at UFRN. He works in teaching, research and extension in the Social Management field, on topics like solidarity economy, agrarian reform, family farming, volunteer work, management of non-governmental organizations and social management of public policies with emphasis on participation and social control. He coordinates the higher education course in Technology in Cooperative Management since 2014. He is full member of the State Council of Cooperativism (Cecoope) of Rio Grande do Norte. He is member of the Network of Researchers in Social Management, of the Brazilian Network for Research and Management in Territorial Development, of the Latin American Network for Food and Nutrition Security and Sovereignty, of the International Network of Researchers on Traditional Communities and of Unitrabalho Network. He is linked to the Post-graduation Program in Business Management and leader of the teaching, research and extension group “Organization of Learning and Knowledge in Solidarity Initiatives and Studies in the Third Sector”.