Critical Management Research

Emma Jeanes is based at Exeter University, and is affiliated to Lund University. Her research interests include the experiences of work, gender, discrimination, ethics, reflexivity, and the distinctions between work and life ‘outside’ of (paid) work. She takes an historical, sociological and philosophical approach to her research. Tony Huzzard is Professor of Organisation Studies at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University and is also Visiting Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He has researched and published widely on organisational development, work organisation and industrial relations. His current research interests are diverse including corporate governance and work organisation, process organising in health care and the branding of business schools.

With the growing interest in critical management studies, this timely volume engages with the practices and dilemmas of ′doing′ critical management research. A highly credible international team of authors provide reflections on issues ranging from methodology, ethics and reflexivity to the practices of writing. This collection is an invaluable resource for critically-inclined graduate students and experienced researchers alike.

• Introduction - Emma Jeanes and Tony HuzzardApproaching the fieldProblematization meets mystery creation: Generating new ideas and findings through assumption challenging research - Mats Alvesson and Jorgen SandbergResearcher collaboration: Learning from experience - Emma Jeanes, Bernadette Loacker and Martyna SliwaIn the fieldCritical ethnographic research: Negotiations, influences, and interests - Daniel Nyberg and Helen NicholsonCritical action research - Tony Huzzard and Yvonne JohanssonDoing research in your own organization: Being native, going stranger - Mathias SkrutkowskiCritical and compassionate interviewing: Asking until it makes sense - Susanne EkmanCritical Netnography: Conducting critical research online - Jon BertilssonOut of the fieldMotifs in the methods section: Representing the qualitative research process - Karen Lee Ashcraft and Catherine S. AshcraftThickening thick descriptions: Overinterpretations in critical organizational ethnography - Peter SvenssonConceptually grounded analysis: The elusive facticity and ethical upshot of `Organization’ - Hugh WillmottWriting: What can be said, by who, and where? - Martin ParkerConclusion: Reflexivity, ethics and the researcher - Emma Jeanes and Tony Huzzard