Engaged development managing as a response to managerialism

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, José Augusto Mansur
• Orientador(a): Faria, Alexandre de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Managerialism; History; Action research; Action leadership; Action learning; Development management; Development bank; Management
• Link de acesso: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/35283

Purpose – This research studies how selected managers of a Development organization in Brazil in different hierarchical levels resist managerialism. Thanks to the management education based on action research they experienced within and outside a non-orthodox Master’s program they felt more able to face challenges from government and from inside the organization. Methodology – The ontology is subjectivism and the epistemology is social constructivism which encompasses rhetorical history and Narrative. The research design is Action Research. The methods used are semi-structured interviews. Triangulation was done among the researcher, the advisor, and all participants. After each interview, every single one of them had access to the notes I took and they could add and/or discard any piece of my notes. Finding –Research shows how the participants co-create meanings and interpretations together with the researcher, make sense of their past within the organization, attempt to manage development under conditions of impossibility, and mobilize Action Leadership to counter managerialism through engaged development managing. Limitations – Although my advisor helped me a lot to engage with postcolonial and decolonial authors from the Global South, my main sources are from the USA and Europe. The insights I can make throughout this research, which was experienced differently to resist managerialism, convey my Westernized interpretations in search for Southern transformations and other scholars trained differently will be able to interpret other things from either the same excerpts or if they were the ones doing the research.