Epistemological reflections on business administration research: contributions of Theodor W. Adorno

José Henrique de Faria, Carolina Machado Saraiva de Albuquerque Maranhão and Francis Kanashiro Meneghetti

RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Administration), 2013, vol. 17, issue 6, 642-660

Abstract: Adorno's philosophical legacy came to be considered in researches in the area of business administration, especially in organizational studies (Batista-dos-Santos, Alloufa, & Nepomuceno, 2010; Faria, 2004; Paes de Paula, 2008, 2012). This paper is intended to contribute with epistemological reflections and their implications in the use of dialectic as a method of analysis. Adorno's contributions to research in organization studies materialize in at least 6 ways: (a) the fight against totalitarian philosophical systems; (b) when ideas are elements from Praxis, these have concrete potential in the objective world; (c) the primacy of an object over a subject makes an object qualitatively distinct; (d) an object studied is nothing without a subject who will study it, because without the subject the object does not exist; (e) a subject thinks about reality principally through ideas and concepts; (f) as any reality studied cannot be fully knowable, it can only be known through what it shows, i.e. a non-concept can only be known through a concept, because a relationship of mutual existence allows us to consider the existence of a potential totality.

Date: 2013
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