ABSTRACT
An active network of management studies has emerged in post-war Latin America now pursuing three key approaches to cross-cultural management inquiry that either involve mainstream positivist research or take a critical stance towards it. This chapter points out the decreasing returns to scale of mainstream management survey-based research. It describes the lack of responsiveness by Latin American business schools to filling the need for alternative management research approaches and research tools. The chapter suggests alternative avenues of management research within the means available to Latin American business schools, while still focused on local needs, such as social inclusion, environmental sustainability and higher productivity. Management is largely a European and American construct of rationalism styled a la northern European and American interpretations. At present, much of the discomfort of scholars active in Critical Management Studies, particularly in Latin America, stems from the underrepresentation of diverse voices in international journals.
