Guest editorial: Latin American and the Caribbean management history

The third tradition, called the postmodernist school, based mainly on philosophers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche or Hayden White, proposes a critical history that shows the dark side of management, analyzing the power in the labor relationships, decisions that shape the corporative domination in contemporary society and the reinterpretation of linear and traditional management history as the book of Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman, John Hassard and Michael Rowlinson – New History of Management do magnificently (Cummings et al., 2017). [...]the central call for Dávila is to trace the management practices in business history, a long traditional field of research in the Region since 1980. While modern management in Europe emerged inside the books of classic economists like Smith, Jevons, Marshall, Mills, Say and Babbage (George and Álvarez, 2005), the US mainstream ideas that shaped management history belong to mechanical engineering, especially in the books of Metcalfe, Towne, Taylor, Emerson, Gantt, Moller and Gilbreth (Wren and Bedeian, 2018). According to Safford (1989), the managerial positions were occupied by people trained in law in the Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada – a Spanish Empire’s jurisdiction in Latin America-.