Um estudo decolonial sobre corrupção nas organizações brasileiras: capitalismo utópico (sic)?

Abstract

In this thesis, I carry out a critical-interpretative research on one of the consequences of Car Wash Operation, the Electoral Judicial Investigation nº 1943-58, better known as 'Cassation of Chapa Dilma-Temer Act'. In this process, alleged accusations that made up an attempt to remove the then President Dilma Rousseff and her Vice Michel Temer were investigated. I will try to answer the following research problem: How, when critically analyzing the speeches contained in the Cassation Action of Chapa Dilma-Temer, can decolonial thinking contribute to debates on corruption in organizations? My general objective is to analyze the contributions of decolonial thinking to the debate on corruption in organizations from a critical analysis of the discourses contained in the Cassation of Chapa Dilma-Temer Act. The data used for the analysis are the transcribed testimonies contained in the 33 volumes of the process, digitized and available on the online page of the Superior Electoral Court, consulted in 2019. The analysis work was interpretive and in-depth in relation to the data. The analyzes took place in relation to the discourses contained in the testimonies, and not in the lines themselves, which allowed me to make a more comprehensive reading of the data, dispensing with the need to analyze line-to-line of each of the interviewees. From reading the data on the panel, the most representative or revealing quotations about the subjectivities produced during the analyzed process were chosen. The final analytical narrative was written and, then, a back-to-theory effort was carried out, in which the findings were opposed to the modern and decolonial views on corruption. From the analysis of the data, two interpretive currents of corruption emerged that should compose the anti-corruption agendas in the coming years. The first is the modern trend to fight corruption, based on traditional views about the phenomenon. The second is the decolonial current, which must guide their agendas through the proposal of democratic radicalization. In view of the modern anti-corruption agenda, future actions should focus on the paradigm of increased organizational control of institutions, based on measures such as legislative inflation, internal processes reengineering, mechanisms for internal and external controls, as well as improvements in legal system for processing complaints of corruption, making the punishment process faster. Due to the decolonial anti-corruption agenda, future actions should focus on the democratic promotion of social control of political institutions, through measures such as political education, promotion of political liberalism and encouragement of direct democracy, increased social control of institutions (social accountability) and restructuring of electoral and political propaganda systems, favoring debate and participation. When taking a new look at organizational corruption through decolonial bias, a new research agenda emerges. An agenda that deals with the surveillance relations between civil society, the market and the State. This research agenda brings space for many possibilities. In addition to the already explored dimension of public governance, which is based on the quality of relations between the State and civil society, there is also the idea of the company's social accountability, which concerns surveillance and bilateral relations that can be established between civil society and private business organizations — here seen as de facto political entities. The decolonial agenda sheds light on the politicization of society, the improvement of institutional quality and the thinking of mechanisms for the social control of political mediations (potestas).