The myth of the administrative reason

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Published: May 8, 1993
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Mythic consciousness, organizations, organizational theories, instrumental rationality, substantive rationality, administrative reason.

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Fernando Guilherme Tenório

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This study aims at drawing the attention to the "condemnation "to which organizational theories - while supreme reason of modernity - have been subjected by the instrumentary rationality. The avail of Greek mythology as an analogical element only strengthens the mythical character of organizational theories.

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Tenório, F. G. (1993). The myth of the administrative reason. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 27(3), 5 a 14. Retrieved from https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/8631
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Vol. 27 No. 3 (1993)
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