The Sociomateriality of Management Education: Perspectives and Challenges

In management education, the material dimension is neglected or pre-conceived as a mere tool present in human action. In fact, there is a limited view on the role of materiality as a 'means' for education and almost no understanding of its social issues. Thus, two research needs are relevant: (a) revisions of academic production that fully consider materiality and (b) research built from a sociomaterial approach. The research goal is to systematize and discuss the academic production on the materiality of management education, highlighting sociomateriality as a perspective allowing advancement of future research. The methodology is based on a systematic review of academic production published on national and international bases. As a result, therefore, we provide a demonstration of how a sociomaterial approach produces new horizons for the advancement of research and impacts our learning spaces, using and understanding the artifacts and objects potentialities in educational activity within educational institutions.