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Informationen zum Autor Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is also affiliated with University of Queensland Business School. Research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organizations, organizational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science. Recent books include Understanding Gender and Organizations (Sage, 2009, 2nd ed with Yvonne Billing), Reflexive Methodology (Sage, 2009, 2nd ed, with Kaj Skoldberg), Changing Organizational Culture (Routledge 2008, with Stefan Sveningsson), Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms (Oxford University Press, 2004), Postmodernism and Social Research (Open University Press, 2002), Understanding Organizational Culture (Sage, 2002).Todd Bridgman is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. His PhD, completed at Judge Business School, was judged best doctoral thesis in Critical Management Studies at the Academy of Management 2005. His research interests include poststructuralism, management education, and the role of the university in society. Todd is one of the founders of the CMS website http://www.criticalmanagement.org.Hugh Willmott is Research Professor in Organization Studies, Cardiff Business School, having held professorial positions at the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester and visiting appointments at the Universities of Copenhagen, Lund and Cranfield. He has a strong interest in the application of social theory, especially poststructuralist thinking, to the field of management and business. His recent books include Critical Management Studies: A Reader (OUP, 2005) Introducing Organization Behaviour and Management (Cengage). He currently serves on the board of Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization. Full details can be found on his homepage : http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/hr22/hcwhome Klappentext Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of much mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established practices and institutional arrangements! it challenges many orthodoxies in management and organization studies. This Handbook maps the terrain of CMS today. Zusammenfassung Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of much mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges many orthodoxies in management and organization studies. This Handbook maps the terrain of CMS today....
List of contents
- 1: Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott, and Todd Bridgman: Introduction
- Part I: Theoretical Approaches
- 2: Andreas G. Scherer: Critical Theory and its Contribution to the Emergence of Critical Management Studies
- 3: Michael I. Reed: Critical Realism in Critical Management Studies
- 4: Campbell Jones: Poststructuralism
- 5: Perspectives On Labour Process Theory
- Labour Process Theory and Critical Management Studies
- Retrieving the 'Missing Subject' in Labour Process Analysis: Towards Emancipation and Praxis
- Part II: Key Topics and Issues
- 6: Tim Newton: Organisations and the Natural Environment
- 7: David Knights: Power at Work in Organizations
- 8: Robyn Thomas: Critical Management Studies on Identity: Mapping the Terrain
- 9: Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Chris Carter, and Stewart Clegg: Globalization
- 10: David Grant, Rick Iedema, and Cliff Oswick: Discourse and CMS
- 11: Joanna Brewis and Gavin Jack: Culture: Broadening the Critical Repertoire
- 12: Glenn Morgan and André Spicer: Critical Approaches to Organizational Change
- 13: Edward Wray-Bliss: Ethics
- 14: Michael Rowlinson, Roy Stager Jacques, and Charles Booth: Critical Management and Organizational History
- 15: Karen Lee Ashcraft: Gender and Diversity: Other Ways to 'Make a Difference'
- 16: Peter Fleming and Matteo Mandarini: Work
- 17: Joanne Duberley and Phil Johnson: Critical Management Methodology
- Part III: Specialisms
- 18: Michael Saren and Peter Svensson: Critical Marketing Studies
- 19: Debra Howcroft: Critical Information Systems Research
- 20: Nelson Phillips and Sadhvi Dar: Strategy
- 21: Stanley Deetz and John G. McClellan: A Critical Look at Communication
- 22: Tom Keenoy: Human Resource Management
- 23: Mahmoud Ezzamel and Keith Robson: Critical Accounting
