Development, management and North Atlantic Imperialism: for Eduardo Ibarra Colado

TY - JOUR

T1 - Development, management and North Atlantic Imperialism

T2 - for Eduardo Ibarra Colado

AU - Cooke, Bill

AU - Alexandre, Faria

PY - 2013/6/1

Y1 - 2013/6/1

N2 - This special issue was engendered in 2012, to build on other initiatives scrutinizing 'development' and 'management' nexus. We had two concerns - to address this nexus per se; and in so doing to contest the extending representational reach of the North-Atlantic management academy over the world (e.g., DAR and COOKE, 2008; WANDERLEY and FARIA, 2012; BERTERO, ALCADIPANI, CABRAL et al., 2013; ALCADIPANI and CALDAS, 2012). As we go on to suggest, these two motives are themselves inextricably intertwined.Our Call for Papers proposed a threefold configuration of the relationship:(i) Development-Management: The longstanding and overlooked relation between management and development; how development interventions are managed, in so called "developing countries," and articulated in so called "developed nations" or "advanced economies"... But also we stress the need to consider [t]ypes of management(s) mobilized by emerging economies in South-South designs of development(s).(ii) Development&Management: The takeover of development by management and business...including the Bottom of the Pyramid....the role of think tanks, foundations, consultancies, business schools, and First-World scholarly associations in the sustaining and/or emancipation of the peripheral.(iii) Development/Management The fissure/cracks between and within development-management and development&management. The relation between the two fields, in practice, disciplinarily, and theoretically...Before we summarize our authors' unique contribution to these variations of the nexus, we first, take the opportunity to explicate the distinctions and overlaps between them. This we initiate through a consideration of the second of our concerns, the over-reaching of the North Atlantic academy. We name that element of the academy such, first, in tribute to anthropologist, the late Michel-Rolph Trouillot's recognition that the colonial Atlantic encounter between Europe, the Americas, and Africa was constitutive of modernity. Second, because empirically the countries of the NATO military alliance dominate, still, the institutions and production of management knowledge. We are not original in this. We follow Locke's history of management institutions (1996) that speaks of a "NATO era', of their expansion in support of US foreign policy; Burrell (1997) who situates the emergence of modern organization in trans-Atlanticist migrations of the European peasantry; and Murphy and Zhu (2012) who map (literally) Anglo-American domination in management journals, as their title states.

AB - This special issue was engendered in 2012, to build on other initiatives scrutinizing 'development' and 'management' nexus. We had two concerns - to address this nexus per se; and in so doing to contest the extending representational reach of the North-Atlantic management academy over the world (e.g., DAR and COOKE, 2008; WANDERLEY and FARIA, 2012; BERTERO, ALCADIPANI, CABRAL et al., 2013; ALCADIPANI and CALDAS, 2012). As we go on to suggest, these two motives are themselves inextricably intertwined.Our Call for Papers proposed a threefold configuration of the relationship:(i) Development-Management: The longstanding and overlooked relation between management and development; how development interventions are managed, in so called "developing countries," and articulated in so called "developed nations" or "advanced economies"... But also we stress the need to consider [t]ypes of management(s) mobilized by emerging economies in South-South designs of development(s).(ii) Development&Management: The takeover of development by management and business...including the Bottom of the Pyramid....the role of think tanks, foundations, consultancies, business schools, and First-World scholarly associations in the sustaining and/or emancipation of the peripheral.(iii) Development/Management The fissure/cracks between and within development-management and development&management. The relation between the two fields, in practice, disciplinarily, and theoretically...Before we summarize our authors' unique contribution to these variations of the nexus, we first, take the opportunity to explicate the distinctions and overlaps between them. This we initiate through a consideration of the second of our concerns, the over-reaching of the North Atlantic academy. We name that element of the academy such, first, in tribute to anthropologist, the late Michel-Rolph Trouillot's recognition that the colonial Atlantic encounter between Europe, the Americas, and Africa was constitutive of modernity. Second, because empirically the countries of the NATO military alliance dominate, still, the institutions and production of management knowledge. We are not original in this. We follow Locke's history of management institutions (1996) that speaks of a "NATO era', of their expansion in support of US foreign policy; Burrell (1997) who situates the emergence of modern organization in trans-Atlanticist migrations of the European peasantry; and Murphy and Zhu (2012) who map (literally) Anglo-American domination in management journals, as their title states.

KW - Development Management, International Development, Postcolonialism

U2 - 10.1590/S1679-39512013000200001

DO - 10.1590/S1679-39512013000200001

M3 - Article

SN - 1679-3951

VL - 11

SP - I-XV

JO - Cadernos EBAPE.BR

JF - Cadernos EBAPE.BR

IS - 2

ER -