The micro-entrepreneur state. Onegeism, the vocation to help and the entrepreneurial spirit in the management of Cambiemos from the Secretariat of Social Economy of the Nation

This article studies how, from the highest levels of the Argentine State, the “entrepreneurial culture” operated as a management value to legitimize the political-technical practices of a group of individuals who held political positions in the Ministry of Social Economy of the Nation between 2015 a...

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Main Authors: Nougues, Tomas, Salerno, Agustín
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2022
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/28225
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Summary:This article studies how, from the highest levels of the Argentine State, the “entrepreneurial culture” operated as a management value to legitimize the political-technical practices of a group of individuals who held political positions in the Ministry of Social Economy of the Nation between 2015 and 2019. Professionals from the business world and its related NGOs landed there, where they incorporated concepts, skills and values that they sought to reproduce in the organization of ministerial work and in different Social Development policies during the Cambiemos government. We complement the analysis of the social, political and professional trajectories of the civil servants with the study of a set of policies that were consolidated in the Ministry of Social Economy during the government of Cambiemos. The social cadres of this new right managed from business speeches, also anchored in the daily life of different NGOs, which differentiated them from the Catholic cadres of the 60s, but also from the expert networks of the 90s. They used a new managerial knowledge, recovered values from the entrepreneurial culture and built management objectives such as the financial inclusion of popular sectors in Argentina.