Critical Management Studies
A Reader
Published on 14. July 2005
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-19-928607-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Critical Management Studies', or 'CMS', describes a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Management Studies, and the growing interest in CMS has produced a vibrant and exciting body of research.
Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area, introduce seventeen readings which reflect these developments, and show CMS' importance. As an assessment of CMS, the Reader will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of Management Studies. As an introduction to CMS, it will prove invaluable to students taking courses requiring familiarity with the CMS literature.
Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area, introduce seventeen readings which reflect these developments, and show CMS' importance. As an assessment of CMS, the Reader will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of Management Studies. As an introduction to CMS, it will prove invaluable to students taking courses requiring familiarity with the CMS literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 line drawings, numerous tables
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
834 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928607-2 (9780199286072)
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Persons
Christopher Grey is a Reader in Organization Theory at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Essential Readings in Management Learning (with Elena Antonacopoulou, Sage, 2003), Editor-in-chief of Management Learning, European Co-editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Critical Journal of International Business, Philosophy of Management, and Organization.
Hugh Willmott is Diageo Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Critical Management Studies (Sage, 1992), and Studying Management Critically (Sage, 2003) - both with Mats Alvesson, and co-author with Mats Alvesson of Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1996). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.
Hugh Willmott is Diageo Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Critical Management Studies (Sage, 1992), and Studying Management Critically (Sage, 2003) - both with Mats Alvesson, and co-author with Mats Alvesson of Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1996). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.
Content
1. Introduction ; SECTION I: ANTICIPATING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ; 2. Management Ideology ; 3. The Servants of Power ; 4. Critical Issues in Organizations ; 5. The Power Elite ; SECTION II: STUDYING MANAGEMENT CRITICALLY ; 6. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies ; 7. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management ; 8. The Politics of Organizational Analysis ; SECTION III: CRITICAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT ; 9. Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism ; 10. Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams ; 11. The Managing of the (Third) World ; 12. The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment ; 13. Sexuality at Work ; 14. Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management ; 15. Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal ; SECTION IV: ASSESSING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ; 17. Writing Critical Management Studies ; 18. Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies ; 19. Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory