Concepções sobre ciência e saber na administração: discussão teórica e análise do discurso de estudantes de doutorado

Abstract

This study aims to conduct an analysis of the discourse on science and knowledge of doctoral students in business administration. In the theoretical foundation we present the debate about science and knowledge in the social sciences, as well as its implications in the organizational studies and the paradigmatic model developed by Burrell and Morgan, as well as some of its criticisms. To reach the proposed objective, a qualitative research was carried out with thirteen doctoral students who were at the end of the first year of the course. The statements were analysed through the French analysis of discourse, emphasizing the social context of discourse production, discursive characters and positions, presuppositions and implied meanings. The analysis indicated a prominence of a conception of traditional and positivistscience in the discourses, however, with the presence of critical discourses. Finally, we defend the relevance of different paradigms and the openness to dialogue between them, so that the positivist perspective does not remain free of criticism, nor criticism is isolated in small academic groups.