Hugh Willmott & Mats Alvesson 
Studying Management Critically [EPUB ebook] 

`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

Tabella dei contenuti

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

Circa l’autore

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.