Clerilei Aparecida Bier

Ethics and power in business schools and organizations

The history of the business school as an institution stretches back 127 years to its foundations in the Wharton School in Philadelphia. Initially, it was an explicitly ethical project, centred on an ethic of professionalism, an ethics that was never stabilized and settled. Instead, a managerial ethic of the organization man was established in the USA during the post‐war ascendancy and mimesis of the institution. From the 1980s onwards, in a response to the emergence of neo‐liberal governmental projects, two strong and antithetical tendencies emerged. On the one hand, there was an enormous growth in economic rationalism organized around market fundamentalism. On the other hand, there was a growth of critical management, initially Marxist in derivation but increasingly Foucauldian. Just as labour process analysis seemed to run out of steam with endless empirical accounts of resistance so the Foucault effect seems to have become fixated with the gaze of surveillance and the panopticon. What next, after the ethic of the organization man and the administered society, the ethic of disinterest of science, the ethic of the survival of the fittest of neo‐liberalism and the ethic of resistance characterizing critical management? The paper outlines some ideas from the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos to suggest a possible ‘fifth way’ of building more positive power relations in the business school and thus rekindling an ethical spark.

Participação cidadã na formulação da política pública do esporte catarinense

The present study investigates the process of citizen participation in public sports-related policy-making in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and its purpose is therefore characterized as work of descriptive research. The analyzed period begins in 1992 and extends until the year 2006 and a case study method is used. Data collection was performed using different techniques relevant to the case study method, namely, participant observation, in-depth interviews and documentary research. The results showed that although the main social actors participating in the drafting of public policy had already previously been engaged in the process of public policy-making, some citizen participation did exist in a cooperative form and in the involvement of public collegiate bodies.

Citizen participation in public sports-related policy-making in Santa Catarina state

The present study investigates the process of citizen participation in public sports-related policy-making in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and its purpose is therefore characterized as work of descriptive research. The analyzed period begins in 1992 and extends until the year 2006 and a case study method is used. Data collection was performed using different techniques relevant to the case study method, namely, participant observation, in-depth interviews and documentary research. The results showed that although the main social actors participating in the drafting of public policy had already previously been engaged in the process of public policy-making, some citizen participation did exist in a cooperative form and in the involvement of public collegiate bodies.

La participación ciudadana en la formulación de la política pública del deporte catarinense

The present study investigates the process of citizen participation in public sports-related policy-making in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and its purpose is therefore characterized as work of descriptive research. The analyzed period begins in 1992 and extends until the year 2006 and a case study method is used. Data collection was performed using different techniques relevant to the case study method, namely, participant observation, in-depth interviews and documentary research. The results showed that although the main social actors participating in the drafting of public policy had already previously been engaged in the process of public policy-making, some citizen participation did exist in a cooperative form and in the involvement of public collegiate bodies.

Sociedade, empresa e governo: uma experiência de implementação de um novo paradigma de democracia participativa

The limitations of the state when it comes to providing public goods and services motivate the introduction of reformist programs adherent to different models of public administration. This article presents an experience of participation of civil society actors, profit and nonprofit organizations from the public and private sectors in the coproduction of public goods and services. Examples of an association of artisans from Florianopolis (SC) illustrate the concept of coproduction, establishing a framework for further empirical and theoretical initiatives and joint participation of society in the supply of their own demands. The study was qualitative, was developed in the form of action research as a strategy for participatory research. The methodological procedures used were participant observation, systematic meetings and monitoring of the researchers in implementing the actions. The results demonstrate the ability to reconfigure the social reality, proposing a coproduction by the three sectors as an alternative to creating a new institutional model of joint realization of the common good.