Introdução à teoria das organizações e suas contribuições para os estudos em administração

Abstract

This article aims to analyze, in a systematic way, the discussions and reflections around the Theory of Organizations and their evolution in relation to the thought in the studies in Administration. In this sequential study, we examine Max Weber's perspective on the influence of capitalism and bureaucracy on administrative processes, the principles of which support the construction of the corporate environment in organizations. Also discussed are the concepts of rationality in organizational studies, under the Frankfurtian school conception and the views of scholars in the management context, as well as a critical approach in organizational studies. The conceptions about organizations as firms and institutions in dynamic environments are expressed from the relational perspective of the new economic sociology, to the formation of the organization culture and its precepts. As a conclusion, reflections are brought from the context of the conceptual framework, concerning the conceptions of organizations in the studies of Theory of Organizations, indicating that in addition to the inclination to the competitions and competitions foreseen by the theories, there is, nevertheless, a tendency to the isomorphism in the scenario organizational structure.