Geography in the Construction of Knowledge in Administration

Abstract

With the emergence of a globalized world, in which decisions depend on information on the most varied geographic scales, from local to global, it is essential that the management of companies, whether public or private, be guided by a vision of totality. Based on this assumption, the hypothesis of this study was to demonstrate the absence of formalized Geography in the curriculum of Administration courses (in higher education). The methodological procedures were based on documental verification (by analyzing the curriculum of the main Administration courses in the country), in which data on the official training of managers and how the curriculum of these courses is constituted were analyzed. It was identified deficiency in the training process of these professionals, highlighting the lack of approaches regarding fundamental notions of Geography during the teaching stages. This condition shows that administrative science still does not formally recognize the collaborative potential of Geography, a key discipline in stimulating the spatial thinking of managers that contributes to the full understanding of contemporary reality.

Keywords

• administration
• management
• administrative knowledge
• academic background