Critical Management Studies at Work

'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.' -- Cliff Oswick, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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

Contents: Introduction: Intersections of Critical Management Research and Practice: A Multi-Domain Perspective Maxim Voronov, Julie Wolfram Cox, Tony LeTrent-Jones and David Weir PART I: CRITICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN ACTION: CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN THE GENERATION AND TRANSLATION OF ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE 1. Taking the Employees Perspective: Negotiating Critical Research in an Organization in Conflict Amanda Roan, Rebecca Loudoun and George Lafferty 2. The Phantom Menace: Conducting Practitioner-Informed Research Without Losing Academic Liberties Alexander Styhre 3. Emancipatory Practice and Information Systems Implementation: An Action Research Project in an NHS Acute Trust Teresa Waring 4. Footless and Fancy Free? On Some Means to Move Beyond the Self-induced and Institutional Constraints of CMS Neil Clarke 5. Practical Pushing: Creating Discursive Space in Organizational Narratives Joyce K. Fletcher, Lotte Bailyn and Stacy Blake Beard 6. Discourse and Policy in the Learning and Skills Sector Ron Kerr and Steve Fox PART II: CRITICAL TEACHING AND LEARNING: RESPONSIVENESS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 7. Muckraking Novels: The Search for Another Paradigm Stephen Sloane 8. Journeys into Critical Thinking: Intersecting Foucault into the Organizational Practice Debate Daniel King 9. Extending the Repertoire of Research Approaches in a Professional Doctoral Program: The Place and Shape of a Critical Perspective Jan Priest and Erica Hallebone 10. Supervising Action Research: A Space for Critical Influence on Organizational Practice Marion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh 11. Paradoxes of Academic Practice: Managerialist Techniques in Critical Pedagogy Torkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg 12. Experiences of Living and Doing Critical Management Education in Canadian Business Schools Gina Grandy and Jane Gibbon PART III: CRITICAL IDENTITIES: THE CRITICAL TURN IN EVERYDAY DOMAINS OF PRACTICE 13. Caught in No-Mans Land? Consultancy and Critique Brendon Harvey 14. I Didnt Have the Balls for It: How a Feminine Discourse of Consulting Opens a Critical Space Sheila Marsh 15. Silences and Disappearing Acts: The Politics of Gendering Organizational Practice Margaret L. Page 16. The Trouble with the Glass Ceiling: Critical Reflections on a Famous Concept Yvonne Benschop and Margo Brouns 17. Racial Inequality in the Workplace: How Critical Management Studies Can Inform Current Approaches Brenda Johnson 18. Critical Social Entrepreneurship An Alternative Discourse Analysis James Latham, Robert Jones and Michela Betta 19. Power, Control and the Protean Career: A Critical Perspective on Multinational Organizations Permanent International Assignees Marian Crowley-Henry and David Weir Index