FGV EBAPE Researcher Receives “Professor Anshuman Prasad” Award

The editorial project by Alex Faria (FGV EBAPE) was also highlighted by the LSE Business Review as a reference in the field of management for decolonizing academia and organizations.

The professor and researcher at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV EBAPE), Alex Faria, received the "Professor Anshuman Prasad" award at the Academy of Management, the most prominent management conference held in Chicago in 2024. The award for his paper, "Decolonizing Diversity-Driven Responsibility Education with Praxis," was given by the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division and sponsored by the journal "Organization" (A1 in the Qualis system).

In his work, the professor argues that management knowledge and education systems led by the Global North will continue to fall short in advancing a pro-diversity, responsibility-driven education agenda worldwide if they do not attempt to radically dismantle the colonial/racial matrix embedded in the mindset of “responsible” management academics and curriculum developers.

Highlight in the LSE Business Review

The editorial project, conducted alongside colleagues from India, Australia, and South Africa, was also recognized by the LSE Business Review as a benchmark in the field of management for decolonizing academia and organizations.

The editors, in their article “Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds,” which opens the special issue of the journal Organization, emphasize that as business schools and universities worldwide are swept by a diverse range of decolonizing movements going beyond conventional diversity and inclusion agendas, theoretical disputes have often generated more problems than solutions for organizations and academia. In this special issue, academics from around the world explore decolonization as a practice within management and academic organizations.

According to Alexandre Faria, the result is an innovative, collective, and international project that goes beyond the concept of decolonization as a theoretical project that dominates the Global North. Editors and authors advocate for decolonization as a radical praxis of “(un)doing academia,” which transforms us as it transforms the ways we understand and practice management, conduct research, and produce and disseminate knowledge.