Studying Management Critically

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Mats Alvesson - Lund University, Sweden
Hugh Willmott - Cardiff Business School, UK
Studying Management Critically
October 2003 | 230 pages | Sage UK
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`An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature' - Adult Education Quarterly

Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms.

The book offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. It also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the role of architecture as a repressive and emancipatory force in organizations; gender and organizations and critical methodology for organizational research. Key issues of power/knowledge relations across these areas are addressed and new agendas both for these fields and for management studies as a whole are introduced.

Contributing authors include: Mats Alvesson, Gibson Burrell, David Cooper, Karen Dale, Stan Deetz, Linda Forbes, John Forester, John Jermier, David Levy, Joanne Martin, Glenn Morgan, Martin Parker, Mike Power, Richard Loughlin and Hugh Willmott

Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resource Management

Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resource Management

On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way

  • Critical Ethnography and the Extra-Ordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work

Feminist Theory and Critical Theory

  • Unexplored Synergies

Critical Approaches to Strategic Management

Critical Approaches to Strategic Management

Marketing and Critique

  • Prospects and Problems

Accounting and Critical Theory

Accounting and Critical Theory

Greening Organizations

  • Critical Issues

Building Better Worlds?

  • Architecture and Critical Management Studies

Business, Ethics and Business Ethics

  • Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics

Description

`An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature' - Adult Education Quarterly

Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms.

The book offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. It also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the role of architecture as a repressive and emancipatory force in organizations; gender and organizations and critical methodology for organizational research. Key issues of power/knowledge relations across these areas are addressed and new agendas both for these fields and for management studies as a whole are introduced.

Contributing authors include: Mats Alvesson, Gibson Burrell, David Cooper, Karen Dale, Stan Deetz, Linda Forbes, John Forester, John Jermier, David Levy, Joanne Martin, Glenn Morgan, Martin Parker, Mike Power, Richard Loughlin and Hugh Willmott

Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resource Management

Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resource Management

On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way

  • Critical Ethnography and the Extra-Ordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work

Feminist Theory and Critical Theory

  • Unexplored Synergies

Critical Approaches to Strategic Management

Critical Approaches to Strategic Management

Marketing and Critique

  • Prospects and Problems

Accounting and Critical Theory

Accounting and Critical Theory

Greening Organizations

  • Critical Issues

Building Better Worlds?

  • Architecture and Critical Management Studies

Business, Ethics and Business Ethics

  • Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics
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Studying Management Critically


October 2003 | 230 pages | Sage UK

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`An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature' - Adult Education Quarterly

Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms.

The book offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. It also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the role of architecture as a repressive and emancipatory force in organizations; gender and organizations and critical methodology for organizational research. Key issues of power/knowledge relations across these areas are addressed and new agendas both for these fields and for management studies as a whole are introduced.

Contributing authors include: Mats Alvesson, Gibson Burrell, David Cooper, Karen Dale, Stan Deetz, Linda Forbes, John Forester, John Jermier, David Levy, Joanne Martin, Glenn Morgan, Martin Parker, Mike Power, Richard Loughlin and Hugh Willmott


Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resource Management
  • On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way
  • Critical Ethnography and the Extra-Ordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work
  • Feminist Theory and Critical Theory
  • Unexplored Synergies
  • Critical Approaches to Strategic Management
  • Marketing and Critique
  • Prospects and Problems
  • Accounting and Critical Theory
  • Greening Organizations
  • Critical Issues
  • Building Better Worlds?
  • Architecture and Critical Management Studies
  • Business, Ethics and Business Ethics
  • Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics

Recent Product Reviews:

A very good and critical underpinning (perhaps a deconstructionist) of management
Dr Abdoulie Sallah, Business School, Staffordshire University
This book offers valuable background information for students to develop familiarity with CMS
Mr David Anderson, Dept of Management & Leadership, Lincoln University

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