Research Handbook of Critical Management Education
Published on 11. April 2025
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-1-0353-0865-1 (ISBN)
Description
This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of critical management education (CME), an alternative to mainstream management education attempting to move away from technocratic approaches towards more critical and morally responsible actions. Expert authors reflect on the opportunities and challenges presented by this move, to suggest innovative strategies for management educators across the globe.
Combining insights from original CME advocates with those of emerging experts in the field, this Research Handbook explores the roots and philosophies of the approach alongside its implications and criticisms. Educators from the Global North and South reflect on their experiences of implementing CME, discussing methods for decolonising the curriculum, facilitating learning communities and tackling institutional issues. Chapters cover novel approaches to subjects including accounting, business, and technological innovation, ultimately emphasising the transformative impact of responsible management practice on social injustices and global challenges.
The Research Handbook of Critical Management Education is an invaluable resource for scholars and students in management education and critical management studies. Management educators in any discipline will also benefit greatly from its practical focus and in-depth analysis of CME applications.
Combining insights from original CME advocates with those of emerging experts in the field, this Research Handbook explores the roots and philosophies of the approach alongside its implications and criticisms. Educators from the Global North and South reflect on their experiences of implementing CME, discussing methods for decolonising the curriculum, facilitating learning communities and tackling institutional issues. Chapters cover novel approaches to subjects including accounting, business, and technological innovation, ultimately emphasising the transformative impact of responsible management practice on social injustices and global challenges.
The Research Handbook of Critical Management Education is an invaluable resource for scholars and students in management education and critical management studies. Management educators in any discipline will also benefit greatly from its practical focus and in-depth analysis of CME applications.
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This new text will be valuable for new people entering academia and provide CME/CMS pedagogic rationale and ideas for their work.' -- Peter Stokes, De Montfort University, UK 'Faced with organic crisis and given the outsized influence of B-schools, globally, it is now moreMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-0865-1 (9781035308651)
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Edited by Clare Rigg, Professor of Post-experience Management Education and Head, Professional and Executive Management Learning, Lancaster University Management School and Kiran Trehan, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise, Partnerships and Engagement, University of York, UK
Content
Contents
Preface: Getting personal - 'doing and undoing' management learning. Or, how
we came to critical management education xv
1 Critical management education - an overview and introduction to the
handbook 1
Clare Rigg
PART I THEME ONE: LEGACIES, HOPES AND REFLECTIONS
2 Developing inquiring educational spaces to contribute to a changing world 16
Judi Marshall
3 Spirits of memory, connection and hope: reflections on the past, present
and future of our contributions to critical management learning and
education 29
Michael Reynolds and Russ Vince
4 Critical management education, my life and its times 40
Chris Grey
5 Practising critical management education: reflections on two decades of
cha(lle)nges 52
Martyna Sliwa
PART II THEME TWO: CHALLENGING ORTHODOXIES - DECOLONISING
CRITICAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
6 'Reflecting-in' and 'reflecting-on' action learning beyond Western ideals 62
Farooq Mughal
7 Developing decolonial reflexivity in support of decolonising management
and organisational knowledge and education 72
Stephen Allen and Emanuela Girei
8 Doing critical management studies at a South African university 83
Shaun Ruggunan
9 Decolonizing management education with Afro-diasporic interventions 94
Alex Faria, Cintia Cristina Silva de Araujo and Thassia da Silva
PART III THEME THREE: DOING CME - IN THE CLASS
10 Critical studies of innovation - implications for management education 107
Paul Ellwood
11 "Tell Me How to Start a Business": Student expectations, the mainstream,
and the potential for critical entrepreneurship education 117
Alex Kevill and Mariana Estrada-Robles
12 Introducing accounting through a critical interpretive lens: Pedagogical
design, experiences, challenges and reflections 124
Mengyuan Feng, Jim Haslam, Lina Kloviene and Maria-Teresa Speziale
13 Intersectional and international: module reflections and pedagogic lessons
from overseas students 137
Juliet Kele
14 Consciousness-raising through critical management education 149
Ghazal Zulfiqar and Ajnesh Prasad
15 Kafka's critical insights: Not taking words 'at their word' 162
Leah Tomkins
16 Innovative pedagogies in critical management education: the role of the
diorama 174
Tom Vine
PART IV THEME FOUR: DOING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
- INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
17 Do we have time for this? Time and critical management education 197
Selen Kars-Unluoglu and Karine Mangion-Thornley
18 "Leave politics outside, here we learn about Business": narratives of
apolitical affectation from a casteist management pedagogy in elite Indian
schools 210
Ravikant Kisana
PART V THEME FIVE: CME FACILITATORS AND EDUCATORS
CHALLENGING AND SUPPORTING OURSELVES
19 Observations of othering in a pub community: lessons for management
learning 220
Vivien Hodgson
20 Tales from the past: the influences of storytelling, visual metaphors and
action learning 228
Jane Neal-Smith, Gillian Bishop and Bob Townley
21 Developmental sensemaking for action taking at a time of eco-social
crisis: Seeking integration through conflict 239
Hilary Bradbury
PART VI THEME SIX: WHAT IS IT CRITICAL MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION TEACHES PEOPLE TO DO/BE?
22 What's reflexivity got to do with it??! Past, present, and future 253
Ann L. Cunliffe
23 Reflections on a pedagogy of responsibility 266
Kostas Amiridis, Lucas Introna, Divya Jyoti, Dermot O'Reilly and
Alison Stowell
24 Relational management education 283
Paul Ellwood, Lisa Anderson and Leighann Spencer
25 Success or failure for critical performativity in practice 293
Susann Gjerde
26 Inculcating the urge to think differently through the critical management
pedagogy of Mead 306
Guy Huber and David Knights
PART VII CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
27 Some personal and political reflections on critical management education 322
Hugh Willmott
Epilogue: Management learning and education - talking about a revolution 336
Kiran Trehan and Clare Rigg
Preface: Getting personal - 'doing and undoing' management learning. Or, how
we came to critical management education xv
1 Critical management education - an overview and introduction to the
handbook 1
Clare Rigg
PART I THEME ONE: LEGACIES, HOPES AND REFLECTIONS
2 Developing inquiring educational spaces to contribute to a changing world 16
Judi Marshall
3 Spirits of memory, connection and hope: reflections on the past, present
and future of our contributions to critical management learning and
education 29
Michael Reynolds and Russ Vince
4 Critical management education, my life and its times 40
Chris Grey
5 Practising critical management education: reflections on two decades of
cha(lle)nges 52
Martyna Sliwa
PART II THEME TWO: CHALLENGING ORTHODOXIES - DECOLONISING
CRITICAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
6 'Reflecting-in' and 'reflecting-on' action learning beyond Western ideals 62
Farooq Mughal
7 Developing decolonial reflexivity in support of decolonising management
and organisational knowledge and education 72
Stephen Allen and Emanuela Girei
8 Doing critical management studies at a South African university 83
Shaun Ruggunan
9 Decolonizing management education with Afro-diasporic interventions 94
Alex Faria, Cintia Cristina Silva de Araujo and Thassia da Silva
PART III THEME THREE: DOING CME - IN THE CLASS
10 Critical studies of innovation - implications for management education 107
Paul Ellwood
11 "Tell Me How to Start a Business": Student expectations, the mainstream,
and the potential for critical entrepreneurship education 117
Alex Kevill and Mariana Estrada-Robles
12 Introducing accounting through a critical interpretive lens: Pedagogical
design, experiences, challenges and reflections 124
Mengyuan Feng, Jim Haslam, Lina Kloviene and Maria-Teresa Speziale
13 Intersectional and international: module reflections and pedagogic lessons
from overseas students 137
Juliet Kele
14 Consciousness-raising through critical management education 149
Ghazal Zulfiqar and Ajnesh Prasad
15 Kafka's critical insights: Not taking words 'at their word' 162
Leah Tomkins
16 Innovative pedagogies in critical management education: the role of the
diorama 174
Tom Vine
PART IV THEME FOUR: DOING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
- INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
17 Do we have time for this? Time and critical management education 197
Selen Kars-Unluoglu and Karine Mangion-Thornley
18 "Leave politics outside, here we learn about Business": narratives of
apolitical affectation from a casteist management pedagogy in elite Indian
schools 210
Ravikant Kisana
PART V THEME FIVE: CME FACILITATORS AND EDUCATORS
CHALLENGING AND SUPPORTING OURSELVES
19 Observations of othering in a pub community: lessons for management
learning 220
Vivien Hodgson
20 Tales from the past: the influences of storytelling, visual metaphors and
action learning 228
Jane Neal-Smith, Gillian Bishop and Bob Townley
21 Developmental sensemaking for action taking at a time of eco-social
crisis: Seeking integration through conflict 239
Hilary Bradbury
PART VI THEME SIX: WHAT IS IT CRITICAL MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION TEACHES PEOPLE TO DO/BE?
22 What's reflexivity got to do with it??! Past, present, and future 253
Ann L. Cunliffe
23 Reflections on a pedagogy of responsibility 266
Kostas Amiridis, Lucas Introna, Divya Jyoti, Dermot O'Reilly and
Alison Stowell
24 Relational management education 283
Paul Ellwood, Lisa Anderson and Leighann Spencer
25 Success or failure for critical performativity in practice 293
Susann Gjerde
26 Inculcating the urge to think differently through the critical management
pedagogy of Mead 306
Guy Huber and David Knights
PART VII CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
27 Some personal and political reflections on critical management education 322
Hugh Willmott
Epilogue: Management learning and education - talking about a revolution 336
Kiran Trehan and Clare Rigg