Power and organizational analysis: thoughts towards a criticism against the utilitarianism

• Autor(a) principal: Procópio, Marcos Luís
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Outros Autores: Filho, Genauto Carvalho de França
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/4914

This paper is concerned about how some theoretical conceptions of power, which are presents within the organizational studies field, especially those which understand power as a strategic capacity of someone (or some group) to achieve external goals, can restrict the organization phenomenon comprehension due to the utilitarian view that it assumes about people relations. Beginning from the supposition that the theory of power is an important tool in organizational analysis activities, the actual paper wills to identify, through a bibliography revision which involves other fields of social knowledge beyond the organizational studies one - such as sociology, political science and philosophy, other theoretical conceptions of power, which can potentially aid that which is based on the utilitarian rationality towards a more complete understanding of the organization life.