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Solidarity Economy As a Hybrid Alternative Development Management FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS ESCOLA BRASILEIRA DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS DOUTORADO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO Solidarity Economy as a Hybrid Alternative Development Management in Emerging Countries: recuperating coloniality-decoloniality dynamics TESE APRESENTADA À ESCOLA BRASILEIRA DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS PARA OBTENÇÃO DO TÍTULO DE DOUTOR Diego Altieri Rio de Janeiro - 2019 Dados Internacionais de Catalogação na Publicação (CIP) Ficha catalográfica elaborada pelo Sistema de Bibliotecas/FGV Altieri, Diego Solidarity economy as a hybrid alternative development management in emerging countries : recuperating coloniality-decoloniality dynamics / Diego Altieri. – 2019. 125 f. Tese (doutorado) - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas, Centro de Formação Acadêmica e Pesquisa. Orientador: Alexandre Faria. Coorientador: Gianpaolo Abatecola. Inclui bibliografia. 1. Economia solidária. 2. Cooperativismo. 3. Pobreza – Aspectos sociais. I. Faria, Alexandre de A. II. Abatecola, Gianpaolo. III. Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas. Centro de Formação Acadêmica e Pesquisa. IV. Título. CDD – 334 Elaborada por Márcia Nunes Bacha – CRB-7/4403 WF§V DIIGO ALTIERI MÂ}ÉA§ENÂEf'{T ,§OLIOARITY ECO}IOMY ÀS A HYBRID ATTERNÀTIVÊ DEVÉIOPNI§T'dT INEMtRGING[oUt{TRlE5:RECUPEMTINGCotCINIAUTY.0ÉCot0í\üIÂLITY DYI{AMIT5,," do{a) Escola Brasileira Tese apresentado{a} as curso de Doutorado Em Âdministração grau Doutor{a} em de Âdministração Pública e de Ennpresas para obtenção do de Admini:tração. Data da defesa: ?1105/2019 i , i ASSINÀTI.'RÂ DCIS MEMBRÊS DA 8A$üCA IXÂMINADORÂ i íl- L (9t *.,ao,J- à)afun*tá, i{^-* l. I {*,a | '_ .,. --" , ALEXANDRE DE ÁLMEIDA FARIA GIAI{PAOLO À8ÂTECOLA Orie ntador'(ai Cç-orientador 4,t n/ pÀuto- RoBERTo Dg MENDONÇâ MOTTÂ Membro lnteín0 n.4 .4/ /hnú,t,w MÀRcus wrLcox Ntr.aaif "c» --4ti Membrb.íxterno fl.aL,eJ,, ANA sILVIA ROCHA IPIRANGÀ Scanned by Can:Scanlrer I Acknowledgments I thank all who in one way or another contributed to this dissertation. A special and hearty thanks to my supervisor, Professor Alexandre Faria who encouraged and directed me. His challenges brought this work towards a completion. It is with his supervision that this paper came into existence. I give deep thanks to my co-supervisor, Professor Gianpaolo Abatecola for kindly hosting me at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, giving me precious advice on this work. I also give deep thanks to the Professors and lecturers at Ebape and other members of the faculty. I am grateful to all of those with whom I have had the pleasure to work during this and other related projects. Each of the members of my Dissertation Committee has provided me extensive professional guidance and taught me a great deal about both scientific research and life in general. I am so thankful as well to my fellow students whose challenges and productive critics have provided new ideas to the topic at hand. And I thank my family and my friends who encouraged me throughout the time of my research. II Abbreviations AF-BNDES – Associação Funcionários BNDES (Employee Association of BNDES) AGD – Administração e Gestão do Desenvolvimento BdP – Base da Pirâmide BoP – Base of the Pyramid (Bottom of the Pyramid) BoP 1 – First wave of BoP literature (up to 2005) BoP 2 – Second wave of BoP literature (2005 onwards) BNDES – Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Brazilian Bank for Economic and Social Development) CMBEU – Comissão Mista Brasil-Estados Unidos (Joint Brazil-United States Commission) CMS – Critical Management Studies COMLURB – Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana (Municipal Company of Urban Cleaning of Rio de Janeiro) DA – Development Administration DAM – Development Administration/Management DIPRO – Departamento de Inclusão Produtiva (Productive Inclusion Department) DM – Development Management EGO – Estudos de Gestão e Organização FAT – Fundo de Amparo ao Trabalhador (Worker Support Fund) FHC – Fernando Henrique Cardoso Finsocial – Fundo de Investimento Social (Social Investment Fund) I PND – Primeiro Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento (First National Development Plan) II PND – Segundo Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento (Second National Development Plan) IMF – International Monetary Fund ITERJ – Instituto de Terras e Cartografia do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Institute of Lands and Cartography of the State of Rio de Janeiro) JK – Juscelino Kubitschek MNCs – Multinational Corporations MOS – Management and Organization Studies PAC – Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (Growth Acceleration Program) PND – Plano Nacional de Desestatização (National Privatization Plan) PED – Programa Estratégico de Desenvolvimento (Strategic Development Program) PSDB – Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party) SENAES - Secretaria Nacional de Economia Solidária (National Secretary of Solidarity Economy) SMAC – Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente (Municipal Secretary of Environment) TIIP – Tese de Impacto de Investimento em Projetos (Impact Thesis of Investment in Projects) TJLP – Taxa de Juro de Longo Prazo (Long-term interest rate) TLP – Taxa de Longo Prazo (Long Term Rate) WSSD – World Summit for Social Development WTO – World Trade Organization USAID – U.S. Agency for International Development III Abstract In this dissertation, we examine coloniality/decoloniality dynamics, which remain overlooked by Euro-American management and organization studies (MOS), within the multifaceted realm of development administration/management (DAM) in a Latin America emerging country. Among different versions of DAM as alternative to poverty management, solidarity economy and development organizations memories in the South, particularly in emerging societies, have been subalternized by the Base of Pyramid (BoP) approach and been turned into a ‘decolonial’ managerialist paradigm by both embracing decoloniality initiatives and renewing coloniality at a global scale. This dissertation recuperates the concept of solidarity economy as decolonial hybridism by means of a historical analysis of coloniality/decoloniality dynamics. It focuses on the engagement of the Brazilian Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) with solidarity economy and findings of an investigation on organizational remembering/forgetting dynamics with managers of the Social Development department of BNDES and practitioners of social organizations involved in hybridist poverty management projects partly financed by BNDES. The dissertation concludes suggesting new vistas for solidarity economy and BoP approach by highlighting the importance of decoloniality-coloniality and forgetting- remembering dynamics from within DAM varieties in emerging societies to the potential transition of US-led universalist Eurocentric MOS toward pluriversality. Keywords: decolonial, development, bottom of the pyramid, alternatives, solidarity economy, modernity, managerialism, neocolonialism, neoliberalism. IV Resumo Nesta tese, examinamos as dinâmicas de colonialidade/descolonialidade, que permanecem negligenciadas pelos estudos de gestão e organização euro-americanas (EGO), no âmbito multifacetado da administração/gestão do desenvolvimento (AGD) em um país emergente da América Latina. Entre as diferentes versões da AGD como alternativa à gestão da pobreza, a economia solidária e as memórias das organizações de desenvolvimento no Sul, particularmente nas sociedades emergentes, foram subalternizadas pela abordagem da Base da Pirâmide (BdP) e se transformou em um paradigma gerencialista “decolonial”, adotando iniciativas de descolonialidade e renovando a colonialidade em escala global. Esta tese recupera o conceito de economia solidária como hibridismo descolonial por meio de uma análise histórica das dinâmicas de colonialidade/descolonialidade. Centra-se no engajamento do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) com a economia solidária e resultados de uma investigação sobre a dinâmica de esquecimento/lembrança organizacional com gerentes do departamento de Desenvolvimento Social do BNDES e profissionais de organizações sociais envolvidos em projetos híbridos de gestão da pobreza parcialmente financiados pelo BNDES. A tese conclui sugerindo novas perspectivas para a economia solidária e a abordagem BdP, destacando a importância das dinâmicas de descolonialidade/colonialidade e esquecimento/lembrança por dentro das variadas AGD em sociedades emergentes para a transição potencial dos EGO eurocêntricos universalistas liderados pelos EUA para a pluriversalidade. Palavras-chave: descolonial, desenvolvimento, base da pirâmide, alternativas, economia solidária, modernidade, gerencialismo, neocolonialismo, neoliberalismo. V List of Figures Figure 1 - The evolution of BoP paradigm 18 Figure 2 - Cartogram of author country affiliation 32 Figure 3 - Three stances for triangulation 49 VI List of Tables Table 1 - Field representation of the action research cycle 40 Table 2 - Documentary historical corpus 41 Table 3 - List of Interviewees 42 Table 4 - Assessing the principles for nonfoundational research 45 VII Table of contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 9 1.1 PROBLEM FRAMING .................................................................................................................... 9 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH ...................................................................................................
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