Uma narrativa sobre a história dos cursos de adminstração da FACE-UFMG: às margens do mundo e à sombra da FGV?

Abstract

This study aimed to clarify the development of FACE management courses, from its creation in 1952 until its unification in 1968. lnitially we analyzed documents about the Facultys undergraduate courses on management or related to that theme. We found that there were three courses on the subject at FACE, since the course on Sociology and Politics were attached to the Public Administration baccalaureate. The questions which emerged from this first contact with the data conducted further developments in this work. We chose, initially, to present a discussion that seeks to insert this thesis in an intersection between organizational studies and history within the discipline of Management and Organization Studies. Then, we present the formation of Management as a field of knowledge and its export to other countriesduring the Cold War. We enforce that there is an interaction between the discipline and the political environment in which it develops and claim that this should be considered carefully. ln the third section, we show the relations between Brazil and the United States with a focus on technical agreements that supported the exportation and importation of Management for Brazil, under U.S. hegemony. Subsequently, we focus the Schools of Commerce in Brazil, which were an important institution in the environment where administrative knowledge circulated, especially before the dissemination of undergraduate courses. The spread of theundergraduate courses is the focus of the lourth section, which also gives attention to the establishment of higher education courses in Management in Brazil. After this presentation, we discus more precisely the FACE Management courses in its social, economic and institutional contexts. We conclude that FACE-UFMG undergraduate courses in management suffered influences from FGV schools and the U.S. models, but developed mainly in interaction with the local reality in which they belonged.