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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... Habermas's theory of communicative action, has little relevance for the analysis of empirical cases and has less to say about how we might explore the work of managers and administrators. Forester shows how we might develop an ...
... Habermas's work are reviewed in order to explore the role and function of accounting. In particular, its role as a steering medium and its potential for enabling or distorting communication is considered. Critical Theory, it is ...
... Habermas's concern to recognize and renew the emancipatory impulse of science can be felt: Science as a productive force can work in a salutary way when it is suffused by science as an emancipatory force, to the same extent as it ...
... Habermas's (1984) idea of communicative rationality, it is suggested that conflictual matters can quite often be brought into the open and resolved through dialogue in which participants explore each other's validity claims and let the ...
... Habermas's efforts to ground critique in the presuppositions of language rather than the structure of consciousness have been described as a 'linguistic turn'. Can the contributors to this volume be characterized as proponents of a ...
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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 |
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Studying Management Critically, Volumen1 Mats Alvesson,Hugh Willmott Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |