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Managerial and Critical Organisational Paradigm: Must They Collide in the Global Environmnets?

It is the fact that the instant that science leaves its critical element and becomes an instrument in the service of the extant in the hands of capitalist production, it becomes a tool in the service of the technocracy. In this paper the author would like to offer an outline for an alternative concept of the scientific research for two reasons: firstly, because we believe that every scientific endeavour should be based on responsibility towards human life; secondly, because we place great hopes in the liberating role of science which in the global era is faced with a need to seek the purpose of social transformation in the realization of a new, global nararative. The benefit could be double: not only would human organisation be protected from the danger of the subordination of the technical mind, but also the people themselvs would, above all in the sense of collective actors, learn how to cope with the global challenges, so that we become masters not victims of change. The public more frequently raises direct questions regarding cases of abuse by multinational corporations, sudden decrease in the price of shares, environmental pollution, cheating of customers in the public utilities sector, and the deficiencies of the world banking system. Although it is financial concerns that lie within these issues, their social causes, as well as their consequences, are undisputed. An answer to these concerns is not possible without taking into account the results of a variety of scientific disciplines. This paper is concieved as a plea for dialogue between the corporate sector and the community of researchers. For social analysts, the scandals shattering the corporate world present a great challenge, not only for the purpose of testing 'grand theories', but also for questioning their identity in the sense that they need to decide whether they want to be 'social engineers' or 'social critics'- the fact is, there can hardly be those who remain neutral.

Global era; scientific research; social critics; social engineers.

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