Epistemic crossroads in managerial knowledge production: a play in three acts
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2025-09-04
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Barros, Amon Narciso de
Bridgman, Todd Nicholas
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This dissertation consists of a dramaturgical play composed of three interlinked academic papers—empirical, methodological, and epistemological—guided by Afrografia as a countercolonial epistemology and methodology. It examines how managerial knowledge production ‘inadvertently’ perpetuates epistemic colonial logics, and proposes strategies to confront this reality. The empirical study (Act One) critically analyzes Brazilian editions of a canonical Organizational Behavior textbook, exposing how marginalized realities are silenced, erased, and misunderstood in these materials. It also proposes a theory of racialized managerial knowledge to explain how these racialized dynamics operate. The methodological study (Act Two) develops the concept of negotiation of intersectional borders as a decolonial analytical strategy for multi-epistemological research contexts. The epistemological study (Act Three) advances Afrografia as an Afro-diasporic counter-colonial epistemology capable of reconfiguring the conditions under which management knowledge is produced, taught, and legitimized. From these learnings, I proposed a critical case study as a counter-colonial pedagogical hack to confront colonial epistemic assumptions in management education. The dissertation contributes to Management and Organization Studies (MOS) by theorizing racialized managerial knowledge, proposing an Afro-diasporic epistemology, advancing decolonial methodological approaches, and designing complementary pedagogical resources for students’ critical reflexivity, aligning with anti-racist commitments such as Brazil’s Sustainable Development Goal 18.
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Managerial knowledge production Racialized managerial knowledge Counter-colonial epistemology Counter-colonial pedagogical hacks Decolonial methodology Produção de conhecimento gerencial Conhecimento gerencial racializado Epistemologia contracolonial Hacks pedagógicos contracoloniais Metodologia decolonial