Abstract

SAAVEDRA-MAYORGA, Juan Javier  and  SANABRIA, Mauricio. RESISTANCE IN ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES: A LITERATURE REVIEW. Innovar [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.78, pp.149-166.  Epub Dec 10, 2020. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v30n78.90312.

Power cannot be understood without its natural complement: Resistance. This concept allows the interpretation of a great variety of social and organizational phenomena, both historical and contemporary, thus it has received great attention from academia. This paper presents a literature review on resistance in the field of organization studies The results show that resistance is a complex phenomenon studied by a wide variety of approaches, ranging from philosophy and social sciences to management theories, and that it materializes in a wide spectrum of practices and discourses. This work seeks to draw attention to the importance of the problem of resistance in the construction of a critical agenda in the field of organization studies.

Keywords : Management; organization; organization studies; power; resistance; social sciences.

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