Critical Management Studies at Work

Negotiating Tensions between Theory and Practice

AvJulie Wolfram Cox,Tony G. LeTrent-Jones

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This book is the first of its kind to reflect on what it means to actually perform critical management studies (CMS): how consultants, researchers, teachers and managers negotiate the tensions they experience in their everyday practice.Critical management studies seeks to expose the hidden workings of power, as well as to identify and reform the mundane and frequently unnoticed practices that privilege some groups and individuals at the expense of others, creating injustices in organizations and in the society at large. The authors show how CMS draws on a variety of approaches to ranslate its insights into practice.Combining rich theoretical and empirical contributions with reflections on CMS practice in various forms, this unique book is essential reading for critical researchers, educators and graduate students in business and management fields.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-06-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781847204004

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Edited by Julie Wolfram Cox, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia, Tony G. LeTrent-Jones, Independent Consultant and Educator, US, Maxim Voronov, Professor of Organization Studies and Sustainability, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and David Weir, Fourth Paradigm Consulting, UK

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'This is an excellent text. It covers an impressive range of salient topics. Moreover, it provides a nuanced, considered and balanced treatment of both conceptual and practical aspects of critical management studies.'

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Contents:Introduction: Intersections of Critical Management Research and Practice: A Multi-Domain PerspectiveMaxim Voronov, Julie Wolfram Cox, Tony LeTrent-Jones and David WeirPART I: CRITICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN ACTION: CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN THE GENERATION AND TRANSLATION OF ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE1. Taking the Employee’s Perspective: Negotiating Critical Research in an Organization in ConflictAmanda Roan, Rebecca Loudoun and George Lafferty2. The Phantom Menace: Conducting Practitioner-Informed Research Without Losing Academic LibertiesAlexander Styhre3. Emancipatory Practice and Information Systems Implementation: An Action Research Project in an NHS Acute TrustTeresa Waring4. Footless and Fancy Free? On Some Means to Move Beyond the Self-induced and Institutional Constraints of CMSNeil Clarke5. Practical Pushing: Creating Discursive Space in Organizational NarrativesJoyce K. Fletcher, Lotte Bailyn and Stacy Blake Beard6. Discourse and Policy in the Learning and Skills SectorRon Kerr and Steve FoxPART II: CRITICAL TEACHING AND LEARNING: RESPONSIVENESS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT EDUCATION7. Muckraking Novels: The Search for Another ParadigmStephen Sloane8. Journeys into Critical Thinking: Intersecting Foucault into the Organizational Practice DebateDaniel King9. Extending the Repertoire of Research Approaches in a Professional Doctoral Program: The Place and Shape of a Critical PerspectiveJan Priest and Erica Hallebone10. Supervising Action Research: A Space for Critical Influence on Organizational PracticeMarion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh11. Paradoxes of Academic Practice: Managerialist Techniques in Critical PedagogyTorkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg12. Experiences of Living and Doing Critical Management Education in Canadian Business SchoolsGina Grandy and Jane GibbonPART III: CRITICAL IDENTITIES: THE CRITICAL TURN IN EVERYDAY DOMAINS OF PRACTICE13. Caught in ‘No-Man’s Land’? Consultancy and CritiqueBrendon Harvey14. ‘I Didn’t Have the Balls for It’: How a ‘Feminine’ Discourse of Consulting Opens a Critical SpaceSheila Marsh15. Silences and Disappearing Acts: The Politics of Gendering Organizational PracticeMargaret L. Page16. The Trouble with the Glass Ceiling: Critical Reflections on a Famous ConceptYvonne Benschop and Margo Brouns17. Racial Inequality in the Workplace: How Critical Management Studies Can Inform Current ApproachesBrenda Johnson18. Critical Social Entrepreneurship – An Alternative Discourse AnalysisJames Latham, Robert Jones and Michela Betta19. Power, Control and the Protean Career: A Critical Perspective on Multinational Organizations’ Permanent International AssigneesMarian Crowley-Henry and David WeirIndex