Substantive rationality in communal ecovillage management

• Autor(a) principal: Smaniotto Tres, Guilherme
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: José de Souza, Washington
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/85101
• topic: Ecovillages, substantive organizations, substantive rationality in administrative practice, agroecology, communal management.; Ecoaldeas, organizaciones sustantivas, racionalidad sustantiva en la práctica administrativa, agroecologia, gestión comunal.; Ecovilas, organizações substantivas, racionalidade substantiva na prática administrativa, agroecologia, gestão comunal.

We approach elements of substantive rationality in administrative practice, in productive organizations, through attributesof communal management in agricultural production activities and care for natural and human life in ecovillages. Inspiredby ethnography, we visited four ecovillages for 49 days, following daily life and working relationships. The results show thatmanagement routines emphasize social reproduction under principles of self-sufficiency. The sharing of land and the means ofproduction and the orientation to collective care comprise an environment of social and economic security based on voluntarycommunity bonds. Prevail management processes with a bias of substantive rationality that interconnect demands andecological activism with actions to mitigate ecological degradation and enhance the diversity of life, characterizing traces ofhuman emancipatory administrative practices in the productive sphere in private organizations.