Utopia as organizational imagination in Guerreiro-Ramos' critical thought

This article discusses the main issues of the academic production of Alberto Guerreiro-Ramos as part of Latin American critical thought in administration studies. His basic proposals are analyzed from the perspective of utopianism, which is comprehended as a systematic investigation of alternative principles of organization, which are distinctive of the functionalist form of the enterprise. Seminal concepts, such as sociological reduction, parenthetical man and the theory of social systems delimitation, are explored from an utopian perspective approach; i.e. on the reformulation of social structures and dynamics proposed by Guerreiro-Ramos as alternatives to the market ethos. This paper also explains how the dynamic interaction between organizations and society can imagine alternatives to instrumental conceptions of management, options that pursue emancipation, substantive reason and human fulfillment.