Critical Management Studies A Reader

Name: Critical Management Studies A Reader
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ISBN: 9780199286089

ISBN-10: 0199286086

ISBN-13: 9780199286089

Edition: 2005

Authors: Chris Grey, Hugh Willmott

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'Critical Management Studies' or 'CMS' has emerged over the last ten years as the term to describe a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of management studies. In this time, CMS has come to exert an increasing influence in Management and Management Studies, and while it has prompted fierce debate about its validity and use, there is no doubt that the rapidly growing interest in CMS has produces a vibrant and exciting body of work. Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area have collected together eighteen readings, which reflect these developments, and show why CMS has become an important field of…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.496

The author is based at the University of Cambridge




Introduction




Anticipating Critical Management Studies



Management Ideology




The Servants of Power




Critical Issues in Organizations




The Power Elite




Studying Management Critically



Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies




Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management




The Politics of Organizational Analysis




Critical Studies of Management



Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism




Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams




The Managing of the (Third) World




The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment




Uchi, Gender, and Part-Time Work




Sexuality at Work




Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management




Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal




Assessing Critical Management Studies



Writing Critical Management Studies




Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies




Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory