RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas (Jul 2010)

PERSPECTIVA HISTÓRICA EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO: NOVOS OBJETOS, NOVOS PROBLEMAS, NOVAS ABORDAGENS

  • Alessandra de Sá Mello da Costa,
  • Denise Franca Barros,
  • Paulo Emílio Matos Martins

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 3
pp. 288 – 299

Abstract

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This article attempts to contribute to a better understanding of administrative ideas through the analysis of the use of historicalperspective in management studies. Although this relationship is not recent, it has not progressed substantially in order to promote all their ontological, epistemological and methodological potential. In order to deepen this discussion, we classify three management approaches relating them to the paradigmatic discussion of history: business history, management history and organizational history. This framework allows us to consider that the reorientationist position of the historical perspective enable us to: a) reflect on the social praxis of researchers, b) consider new objects, new problems and new research approaches, and c) realize that new questions displaces the focus of analysis of the exogenous to the local, which may contribute to the development of more critical analysis of current administrative ideologies.

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