¿Gerentes o empresarios? Apuntes para un debate teórico sobre el trabajo en empresas mutinacionales

Abstract

Labor studies concerning managerial work are framed into the debates around the transition from fordism to posfordism. These discussions tend to relegate to a secondary role the issue of transforming identities and subjectivities within the work space. We stress in this article that work occupies a fundamental role in the configuration of identity. This proposal is opposed to the most optimistic forecasts of the so called posfordism, which regards the world outside work as one that outweighs the world of labor. The intention of this article is to inquire, on one side, how the Social Sciences approach the issue of managerial work and, on the other, how the literature in this field contributes our understanding of what kind of subjectivity corporations promote on their managers and its implications on their everyday work. Considering the almost inexistence of debate about the figure of the manager in our Region, we will sow the first seeds towards a Latin American research agenda.