Organizing the Organizational Studies in Chile: Creation history of Minga Group

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Gregorio Perez-Arrau
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3592-3847
Alvaro Espejo
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-0328
Marcela Mandiola
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6604-985X
Nicolás Ríos González
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4703-5887
Juan Pablo Toro
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6661-6885

Abstract

This article addresses the experience, history, and particularities after the process of shaping Minga, an academic group of Organizational Studies in Chile. Following a historical-narrative methodology, a biographical account of this group is built, in which its protagonists participate as researchers and authors of the process. To analyze this story, a decolonial view is adopted, simultaneously investigating the leadership styles and the knowledge network that this experience mobilizes, paralleling the tradition of the minga chilota. The results show how the question for Organizational Studies in Chile coincides with a process of epistemic detachment from the global north, through which the collective and shared leadership among its members is consolidated in Minga, as well as its functioning as an inter-organizational academic network. The conclusions cover some of the learnings that the history and conformation of this group offer for other groups with similar intentions in the field of Organizational Studies in Latin America.

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PEREZ-ARRAU, G.; ESPEJO, A.; MANDIOLA, M.; GONZÁLEZ, N. R.; TORO, J. P. Organizing the Organizational Studies in Chile: Creation history of Minga Group. RAE - Revista de Administracao de Empresas , [S. l.], v. 60, n. 2, p. 156–167, 2020. DOI: 10.1590/S0034-759020200208. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/81391. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.
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