Management theory : a fragmented and multifaceted field

Abstract

In this article there is exposed in very summarized way, the epistemological problematic of the organizational studies and the paradigms and main theories starting off from which a diversity of authors have formulated during XX century a series of focuses, concepts, categories and descriptive, explanatory and interpretive models of the organizational phenomenon. This has generated a great fragmentation of the field, but it has also enriched the debate with a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives that, sometimes complementarily and other times contradictorily, provide a complex and multifaceted look of the organizations that cannot be reduced to a single paradigm and much less still to a single theory.