Unraveling Management

James G. Carrier has taught, researched and written on aspects of economy in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom. He has co-edited several volumes including After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath (Routledge, 2016) and Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice, with Peter G. Luetchford (Berghahn Books, 2014).

“This is a very exciting and very timely book on a topic that is long overdue in anthropology…there’s a rare consistency in the ensemble of chapters even when they are quite different in content.” • Juan Del Nido, University of Cambridge

• PrefaceIntroduction: Seeing Management AbstractlyJames G. CarrierChapter 1. The Production of Management and the Disappearance of the Manager in MBA EducationAndrew OrtaChapter 2. Management’s Hidden RealmJames G. CarrierChapter 3. Writing Managers and Management: Anthropology’s Last Repugnant Other?Michael M. PrenticeChapter 4. Against Collaboration: The Ethics of Studying Corporate ManagementFelix SteinChapter 5. Management in the Flow of CultureGreg UrbanChapter 6. Not every Culture has Management, but every Management Has CultureHeung Wah WongChapter 7. Life in the Head Office: Material Metaphors of ManagementEmil A. RøyrvikChapter 8. Venture Capital Investors as (Asset) ManagersJohannes LenhardAfterword: For an Anthropology of ManagementStefan LeinsIndex