Critical Management Studies

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8455-4
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Drawing on a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, particularly Critical Theory, this volume introduces a critical analysis for the study of management and the various management functions. The book examines: the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the construction of pleasure as a potentially subversive and emancipatory force in organizational life; the double-edged role of a critical social science for managers; and doing critical management research. It also analyzes the nature and consequences of current practices in accounting, operational research, marketing, personnel and organizational psychology and information systems. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alvesson, Mats

Willmott, Hugh

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Critical Theory and Management Studies - Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott
An Introduction
Disciplinary Power in the Modern Corporation - Stanley Deetz
Critical Ethnography - John Forester
On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way
The Organization of Pleasure - Gibson Burrell
Technical, Practical and Critical O.R. - Past, Present and Future? - John Mingers
Critical Theory and Accounting - Michael Power and Richard Laughlin
Marketing Discourse and Practice - Glenn Morgan
Towards a Critical Analysis
Information Systems and Critical Theory - Kalle Lyytinen
Personnel/Organization Psychology - Brian D Steffy and Andrew J Grimes
A Critique of the Discipline
Critical Social Science for Managers? Promising Perverse Possibilities - Walter R Nord and John M Jermier

Über Autor(innen)

Alvesson, Mats
Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.