Studying Management CriticallyMats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott SAGE, 2003 M08 28 - 230 páginas `An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature′ - Adult Education Quarterly Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms. The book offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. It also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the role of architecture as a repressive and emancipatory force in organizations; gender and organizations and critical methodology for organizational research. Key issues of power/knowledge relations across these areas are addressed and new agendas both for these fields and for management studies as a whole are introduced. Contributing authors include: Mats Alvesson, Gibson Burrell, David Cooper, Karen Dale, Stan Deetz, Linda Forbes, John Forester, John Jermier, David Levy, Joanne Martin, Glenn Morgan, Martin Parker, Mike Power, Richard Loughlin and Hugh Willmott |
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Critical Ethnography and The Extraordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work | 46 |
Unexplored Synergies | 66 |
Chapter 5 Critical Approaches to Strategic Management | 92 |
Prospects and Problems | 111 |
Chapter 7 Accounting and Critical Theory | 132 |
Critical Issues | 157 |
Chapter 9 Building Better Worlds? Architecture and Critical Management Studies | 177 |
Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics | 197 |
Author Index | 220 |
Subject Index | 225 |