ISSN: 2177-2576
Date: September, 23rd to 25th, 2026
Location: Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR
The 50th ANPAD Annual Meeting – EnANPAD 2026 – will be held in person at Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR in Fortaleza, with 3 days of academic activities.
Central theme: ANPAD at 50 Years: Rethinking, Reinventing, and Reimagining Management, Accounting, and Related Sciences
A Manifesto for the Next 50 Years of Management Research in Brazil
Celebrating ANPAD’s 50th anniversary is not merely about commemorating a successful trajectory. It is about collectively assuming the responsibility of deciding what kind of science we want to produce from now on. EnANPAD 2026 marks a turning point: a moment of critical reflection, intellectual confrontation, and reinvention of the agendas that guide research in Management, Accounting, and related fields in Brazil.
Over the course of five decades, ANPAD has played a decisive role in consolidating graduate education, training researchers, and building the largest and most relevant academic forum in the field in the country. EnANPAD has been—and continues to be—the place where theories have been introduced, methods contested, traditions consolidated, and, at many moments, challenged. This history is neither linear nor consensual. It is made up of debates, tensions, and choices that have shaped the field as we know it today.
However, the present demands more than revisiting the past. We are living in a moment in which Management research is confronted by multiple crises: social, environmental, institutional, and epistemological. Pressures for impact, relevance, and social responsibility coexist with rigid evaluation systems, standardized metrics, and incentives that do not always favor innovation, pluralism, or intellectual risk-taking. In this context, it is inevitable to ask: which problems are we prioritizing? Which forms of knowledge are we legitimizing? Which futures are we helping to produce?
EnANPAD 2026 commits to placing these questions at the center of the debate. This is not merely about following trends, but about contesting agendas. Rethinking theories that no longer capture contemporary complexity. Reinventing methods to investigate organizational, social, and managerial phenomena in contexts marked by inequalities, digital transformations, and climate crises. Reimagining the role of Management research as a scientific, educational, and socially engaged practice.
This manifesto calls upon the ANPAD community—senior scholars, early-career faculty, and master’s and doctoral students— to occupy EnANPAD as a space for engagement, but also for provocation. A space that values theoretical pluralism, methodological rigor, and intellectual experimentation. A space that encourages dialogue among qualitative, quantitative, experimental, computational, and critical approaches. A space that recognizes that the strength of the field lies precisely in the diversity of perspectives and in the ability to sustain substantive debates.
More than an academic event, EnANPAD 2026 will be a moment of collective encounter, celebration, and affirmation. A space to recognize trajectories, renew commitments, and strengthen ties among senior scholars, early-career faculty, and master’s and doctoral students. A space of conviviality, friendship, listening, and joint construction, because science is also made through the relationships we cultivate over time.
As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, ANPAD reaffirms its role as a central reference for Management research in Brazil and invites its community to imagine and build the next chapters of this history. The future of the field is not predetermined. It will be built from the choices we make now about what to research, how to research, and with whom to research.
Click here to access the Call for Papers - V. 10/02/2026
Click here to access the Call for PTTs - V. 10/02/2026