Critical Management Studies at Work

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 PerspectiveMaxim Voronov, Julie Wolfram Cox, Tony LeTrent-Jones and David WeirPART I: CRITICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN ACTION: CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN THE GENERATION AND TRANSLATION OF ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE1. Taking the Employee’s Perspective: Negotiating Critical Research in an Organization in ConflictAmanda Roan, Rebecca Loudoun and George Lafferty2. The Phantom Menace: Conducting Practitioner-Informed Research Without Losing Academic LibertiesAlexander Styhre3. Emancipatory Practice and Information Systems Implementation: An Action Research Project in an NHS Acute TrustTeresa Waring4. Footless and Fancy Free? On Some Means to Move Beyond the Self-induced and Institutional Constraints of CMSNeil Clarke5. Practical Pushing: Creating Discursive Space in Organizational NarrativesJoyce K. Fletcher, Lotte Bailyn and Stacy Blake Beard6. Discourse and Policy in the Learning and Skills SectorRon Kerr and Steve FoxPART II: CRITICAL TEACHING AND LEARNING: RESPONSIVENESS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT EDUCATION7. Muckraking Novels: The Search for Another ParadigmStephen Sloane8. Journeys into Critical Thinking: Intersecting Foucault into the Organizational Practice DebateDaniel King9. Extending the Repertoire of Research Approaches in a Professional Doctoral Program: The Place and Shape of a Critical PerspectiveJan Priest and Erica Hallebone10. Supervising Action Research: A Space for Critical Influence on Organizational PracticeMarion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh11. Paradoxes of Academic Practice: Managerialist Techniques in Critical PedagogyTorkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg12. Experiences of Living and Doing Critical Management Education in Canadian Business SchoolsGina Grandy and Jane GibbonPART III: CRITICAL IDENTITIES: THE CRITICAL TURN IN EVERYDAY DOMAINS OF PRACTICE13. Caught in ‘No-Man’s Land’? Consultancy and CritiqueBrendon Harvey14. ‘I Didn’t Have the Balls for It’: How a ‘Feminine’ Discourse of Consulting Opens a Critical SpaceSheila Marsh15. Silences and Disappearing Acts: The Politics of Gendering Organizational PracticeMargaret L. Page16. The Trouble with the Glass Ceiling: Critical Reflections on a Famous ConceptYvonne Benschop and Margo Brouns17. Racial Inequality in the Workplace: How Critical Management Studies Can Inform Current ApproachesBrenda Johnson18. Critical Social Entrepreneurship – An Alternative Discourse AnalysisJames Latham, Robert Jones and Michela Betta19. Power, Control and the Protean Career: A Critical Perspective on Multinational Organizations’ Permanent International AssigneesMarian Crowley-Henry and David WeirIndex

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