Maurício Tragtenberg's influence on the work of the first generation of researchers in Brazilian critical organizational studies

Abstract:

Influencing an academic field is not a role played by many researchers. In the case of Brazilian ​​Organizational Studies, this role has been played by very few people. Maurício Tragtenberg is recognized as the precursor of Brazilian critical Organizational Studies, his influence may be noticed in several research themes. Thus, this article analyzes the influence of Tragtenberg's thematic categories on the academic production of the so-called first generation of critical authors in Organizational Studies in Brazil, namely, Fernando Prestes Motta, José Henrique de Faria, and Fernando Coutinho Garcia, who have been cited by Tragtenberg himself as the group that directly received his influence. For this, the survey of academic works by these authors was analyzed. The research found out that Tragtenberg's categories are observed in works by the three researchers approached and they were historically contemporary in their academic production, constituting a cohesive group, which may be pointed out as the first generation of researchers in Brazilian critical Organizational Studies.

Keywords:
Maurício Tragtenberg; organizational studies; critical studies.