At the end of a long career Alberto Guerreiro Ramos sought a reconceptualization of the science of organizations that recognized non-economic dimensions of human associated life. His efforts fell short, and we will argue that this was because his influence outside Brazil has been fairly minor. This is not, however, due to any intellectual failure on his part rather, in the North America where Alberto Guerreiro Ramos did what he thought was his most important work, the intellectual milieu was both paradigmatically narrow and culturally insular.
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos; Social systems delimitation; Global epistemology; Organization science; Para-economic paradigm