This article aims to contribute for the consolidation of Social Management as a field of scientific knowledge. We search in the paradigms proposed by Burrell and Morgan (1979) and Jones (1993) the references to understand Social Management from its own ontology, epistemology and methodology. Social management, a promising field for the development of organizational studies, has its starting point in the non-state public interest, whilst the starting point of business management is the private interest. Since social management is an antinomian concept that opposes to business perspectives, the negative dialectics helps us to understand social management as a process that (re)construct and is not limited to "Procrustes' Bed". Therefore, social management constitutes a field of scientific knowledge under construction