In the wake of multipolar upheavals and the erosion of epistemic universalism, Anderson de Souza Sant’Anna’s theoretical proposition in Beyond Epistemic Hegemony outlines a powerful reconceptualisation of organizational and management knowledge as an ethical-political practice rather than a technocratic science, advancing a pluriversal framework anchored in epistemic justice, relational ontology, and situated cognition; the critique dismantles the persistent dominance of rationalist, individualist, and competitive paradigms—deeply embedded in rankings, publishing regimes, and accreditation systems—revealing how these structures perpetuate epistemic coloniality by delegitimising Global South knowledges and reifying Eurocentric norms as neutral; drawing on decolonial thinkers such as Mignolo, Santos, Grosfoguel, and Connell, the paper asserts that the current conjuncture demands not only a theoretical reorientation but the institutional reengineering of management education and research infrastructures to accommodate plural ways of knowing and organizing; key strategic proposals include: strengthening South–South academic networks (e.g., CLACSO, CODESRIA), launching a Global South Academy of Management, restructuring publishing via open-access, multilingual, and context-aware journals (e.g., RIGS, ephemera), and reforming curricula and accreditation frameworks to embrace relational pedagogies and locally grounded epistemologies; critically, Sant’Anna moves beyond critique to articulate concrete operational vectors such as the inclusion of community-based knowledge, endogenous quality assurance, and the epistemic repurposing of intergovernmental alliances like BRICS, ASEAN+3, and the African Union’s STISA-2024; this model repositions management not as abstract administration but as a field of co-creation, care, and socio-political embeddedness, in dialogue with Indigenous thought, feminist epistemologies, and Southern theory; rejecting tokenistic pluralism, the article insists on the creation of institutional scaffolds that sustain pluriversal legitimacy across research, publishing, funding, and pedagogy—thus allowing knowledge systems to evolve from monocultures of excellence into ecosystems of reciprocity, autonomy, and ontological diversity, capable of navigating postcolonial complexity and planetary entanglement. Sant’Anna, A. S. (2025). Beyond Epistemic Hegemony: Pluriversal Futures for Organizational and Management Knowledge. Global South Academy of Management, 2(4), pp. 1–9.
