This article moves beyond international management (IM) and international business (IB) literatures and the corresponding neoliberal western order through a trans/interdisciplinary approach that rescues the international management-governance nexus. Drawing upon the basic tenets of pluriversaltransmodernity and the recognition of the geopolitical dimension that has been marginalized by IB/IM the analysis of post-1990 process of (re)construction of a Luso-Brazilian or Brasilo-Portuguese order that challenges the hegemony of the neoliberal order is undertaken through the recognition of the international relations (IR) literature and the desubalternization of local knowledges in GI/NI informed by the concept of economic diplomacy. This paper shows how and why business and government organizations mobilize and constitute the governance-management nexus to (re)build a Luso-Brazilian order and help overcome historical restrictions imposed by eurocentrism. In the end the article stands for the liberation of IB/IM as a way to build a new order in management towards a world in which many worlds and knowledges could coexist.
Governance; international management; international business; geopolítica do conhecimento; Portugal-Brazil