Studying Management Critically by Alvesson, Mats; Willmott, Hugh;

Short description:

Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences 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.

The leading international contributors also examine:

- 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

Long 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

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott
Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resource Management - Stanley Deetz
On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way - John Forester
Critical Ethnography and the Extra-Ordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work
Feminist Theory and Critical Theory - Joanne Martin
Unexplored Synergies
Critical Approaches to Strategic Management - David L Levy, Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott
Marketing and Critique - Glenn Morgan
Prospects and Problems
Accounting and Critical Theory - Michael Power, Richard Laughlin and David J Cooper
Greening Organizations - John M Jermier and Linda C Forbes
Critical Issues
Building Better Worlds? - Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale
Architecture and Critical Management Studies
Business, Ethics and Business Ethics - Martin Parker
Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics