'Critical Management Studies' or 'CMS' has emerged over the last ten years as the term to describe a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of management studies. In this time, CMS has come to exert an increasing influence in Management and Management Studies, and while it has prompted fierce debate about its validity and use, there is no doubt that the rapidly growing interest in CMS has produces a vibrant and exciting body of work. Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area have collected together eighteen readings, which reflect these developments, and show why CMS has become an important field of research. The book is divided into four sections, 'Anticipating CMS', looking at some of the roots of CMS, 'Studying Management Critically', 'Critical Studies of Management', and 'Assessing CMS", examining some of the internal and external critical discussions of CMS. Each reading and it's significance is introduced by the editors, and in their introduction to the reader, they reflect more broadly on the history of CMS. In particular, they consider its institutionalization, both in terms of its becoming an identifiable body of work or approach, and its institutional context within business schools and indeed what it means to produce a Reader of critical work. As an assessment of CMS, the Reader will be of interest to academics, researchers and students of Management Studies. As an introduction to CMS, the book will prove invaluable to students taking courses requiring familiarity with the CMS literature.
Author(s): Chris Grey, Hugh Willmott
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 450
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 12
SECTION I: ANTICIPATING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES......Page 28
2. Management Ideology......Page 32
3. The Servants of Power......Page 40
4. Critical Issues in Organizations......Page 57
5. The Power Elite......Page 61
SECTION II: STUDYING MANAGEMENT CRITICALLY......Page 68
6. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies......Page 71
7. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management......Page 118
8. The Politics of Organizational Analysis......Page 143
SECTION III: CRITICAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT......Page 176
9. Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism......Page 182
10. Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams......Page 220
11. The Managing of the (Third) World......Page 255
12. The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment......Page 283
13. Sexuality at Work......Page 295
14. Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management......Page 315
15. Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal......Page 335
SECTION IV: ASSESSING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES......Page 360
16. Writing Critical Management Studies......Page 364
17. Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies......Page 375
18. Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory......Page 394
B......Page 429
C......Page 431
D......Page 432
E......Page 433
F......Page 434
H......Page 435
I......Page 436
K......Page 437
L......Page 438
M......Page 439
N......Page 440
P......Page 441
R......Page 443
S......Page 444
U......Page 446
W......Page 447
Z......Page 448
