Management and rationality: analysis of the incubation methodology of popular cooperatives of ITCP/NESol/UFT

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the premises which are the foundation for the incubation methodology of the Technological Incubator of Cooperatives for the Federal University of Tocantins – ITCP/ NESOL/ UFT, in the perspective of the concepts of management and technology. It was done an interview with the author of the book “Incubation of popular cooperatives: methodology of the development indicators”, published in 2007 and it was done a focal group with teachers and researchers of NEsol. The theoric arguments are based in the concepts of substantive and instrumental rationality, as well as, in the distinguition between Public, Strategy and Social Management. The research showed that all the premises in which this methodology is based promote an agreement reached by the critical discussion, the subjective appreciation approximating them of the concept of social management, ruled by the logic of substantive rationality which values allow the autonomy, the authenticity, the development of emancipator values, the ethic understanding and the auto-sustainability of the group.