Abstract
This essay discusses the phenomenon of the implementation of technologies designed in the management business, with emphasis on relations with public organizations. It proposes a reflection on the concept of sociological reduction by Guerreiro Ramos, recovering its roots in Husserl and Heidegger and their relationship with the concepts of creative adaptation and the translation of managerial issues. Contextualized in the paradigm of new public management and the list of values and assumptions on which this movement is based, the analysis of the reproduction of practices known in private organizations by public ones seeking their legitimacy has revealed the formality and ceremonial aspect of this contemporary phenomenon. The importance of bringing knowledge from the organizational field that subsidizes management as well as the coherence of these cultural objects in terms of concepts and assumptions of organization are highlighted here. The process of transpositions, contrasting with reproducible traits of Brazilian managerial culture that are historically constructed but consistent with the notion of sociological reduction, requires a critical, conscious and engaged attitude on the part of members of the organization not only regarding the relevance of the imported content but also giving new meaning to the concepts underlying the management technologies.
Highlights
The combination of forces shaping the present public administration scene in Brazil uncovers a strong and unprecedented tendency towards the adoption of managerial practices that are usual in the enterprise field
The tensions outside the combination of organisms that shape public administration are derived from different sectors of society, which start to offer or to demand more and better public goods and services, and from influential multilateral external foment and financial assistance organisms
Studies about the ascension of these managerial innovations reveal the partial character of this appropriation, either in private organizations (Caldas, 1997), or in public organizations (Guimarães, Cavalcanti, & Affonseca, 2004), indicating formalistic practices with emphasis on the format predominating over the content
Summary
The combination of forces shaping the present public administration scene in Brazil uncovers a strong and unprecedented tendency towards the adoption of managerial practices that are usual in the enterprise field. Fischer (1984a); Bertero and Keinert (1994); Caldas (1997, 1999); Vergara (2006) and Caldas and Alcadipani (2006) have demonstrated, especially regarding the theoretical inspiration and the orienting themes of studies involving the knowledge production phenomenon and, the transfer of managerial technologies, the significant dependence of national production on foreign sources (reference authors) and the differences between publications that contemplate imported content (delay in time) They point out what can be considered still more serious – the lack of originality – promoting, with honorable exceptions, what Caldas The purpose of this essay is to recover and to articulate national authors, from past and present, without disregarding the foreign contribution as accessory, according to Ramos (1996), in the law of the subsidiary character given to foreign scientific production as a basis for the sociological reduction concept
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