Development Administration in warmongering perspective: concepts, contributions and implications

Abstract:

Currently, the Critical Studies in Administration (ECA - Estudos Críticos em Administração) and the Critical Studies in Development (ECD - Estudos Críticos em Desenvolvimento) show a clear concern in including the phenomenon of development management in their researches. However, it is clear that, in the 1960s, there was already a concern by Guerreiro Ramos to relate the phenomenon of management with the development of nations. Therefore, this study aims to revisit the thought of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, in a way to explore his theoretical contributions to the field of Development Administration. This is an exploratory study of the author's bibliographical contribution, in which he has analyzed the development management, direct or indirectly. The result of the analysis reveals that some important concepts as the administrative fact, substantive reasoning, parenthetical man and multicenter society are fundamental issues to understand the Development Administration as a discipline aiming to study the management of social relations of production, distribution and consumption of countries, regions, places or organizations.

Keywords:
development administration; Guerreiro Ramos; society.