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

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

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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.

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  • José Henrique de Faria & Carolina Machado Saraiva de Albuquerque Maranhão & Francis Kanashiro Meneghetti, 2013. "Epistemological reflections on business administration research: contributions of Theodor W. Adorno," RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Administration), ANPAD - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração, vol. 17(6), pages 642-660.
    • Handle: RePEc:abg:anprac:v:17:y:2013:i:6:1011
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