The long march of modernization of the Western societies tends to be presented as following a regular sequence: societies and institutions were pre-modern, and then they were modernized, eventually becoming post-modern. Such teleology may provide an incomplete or distorted narrative of societal evolution in many parts of the world, even in the ‘post-modern heartland’ of Western Europe, with Portugal being a cas...
Globalization and localization seem to be opposite concepts – a thesis and its antithesis. Nonetheless, managers seem to be able to handle the paradox posed by these two contradicting tensions by enacting, via action, a synthesis that allows for the co-presence of a high level of global integration and local adaptation (instead of a compromise between both), which has been labeled glocalization. We discuss how ...
A partir de uma crítica das bases epistemológicas e ontológicas do neo-institucionalismo, este artigo defende a potencialidade da aplicação da perspectiva pós-estruturalista, particularmente aquela apresentada por Michel Foucault, à abordagem institucional. Essa proposta teórica - que incorpora uma dimensão negligenciada nas análises institucionais, especialmente, no campo das organizações (o poder) - apresenta...
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