Critical Management Studies

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.

• VOLUME ONE: CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES: OVERVIEWS, ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENTS AND DEBATESOrigins and Early DevelopmentsThe Servants of Power - L. BaritzOrganizations: A Dialectical View - J.K. BensonIntroduction - S. Clegg and D. DunkerleyOne-Dimensional Management Science: The Making of a Technocratic Consciousness - T. Tinker and T. LoweTowards a Critical Management Science - S. Wood and J. KellyOn the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies - M. Alvesson and H. WillmottOverviewsCritical Theory and Postmodern Approaches to Organizational Studies - M. Alvesson and S. DeetzAt the Critical Moment: Conditions and Prospects for Critical Management Studies - V. Fournier and C. Grey, CVOLUME TWO: CRITICAL ORGANIZATION STUDIESOrganizational StructureDeveloping a Field with More Soul: Standpoint Theory and Public Policy Research for Management Scholars - P. Adler and J. JermierOrganizations: From Substance to Image? - M. AlvessonOrganized Dissonance: Feminist Bureaucracy as Hybrid Form - K.L. AshcraftGlass Cages and Glass Palaces: Images of Organizations in Image-Conscious Times - Y. GabrielDemystifying Organizations - C. PerrowCommunication and Unobtrusive Control in Contemporary Organizations - P.K. Tomkins and G. CheneyOrganizational CultureNegations and Ambiguities in the Cultures of Organizations - A. BatteauIdeology: Tech Culture Codified and Conclusion - G. Kunda Breakfast at Spiro′s: Dramaturgy and dominance - M. RosenThe Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - J. Van MaanenStrength Is Ignorance; Slavery Is Freedom: Managing Culture in Modern Organizations - H. WillmottOrganizational Behaviour Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual - M. Alvesson and H. WillmottDiscursive Formations, Strategized Subordination, and Self-Surveillance - S. DeetzWorking at a Cynical Distance: Implications for Power, Subjectivity and Resistance - P. Fleming and A. SpicerOn Fieldwork in a Habermasian way: Critical Ethnography and the Extra-Ordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work - J. ForesterIdeological Fantasy at Work - J. GlynosCareer as a Project of the Self and Labour Process Discipline - C. GreyLooking up and Looking around - R. JackallPower and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations - D. Knights and H. WillmottTheorizing Subjectivity in Organizations: The Failure of Foucauldian Studies? - T. NewtonBeyond the Surrogate of Motivation - B. SieversGender and EthnicityThe Racial Foundation of Organizational Communication - K.L. Ashcraft and B.J. Allen"Engineering Humour": Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations - D. CollinsonHidden Gendered Assumptions in Mainstream Organization Theory and Research - J. MartinThe Emperor Has No Clothes: Rewriting "Race in Organizations" - S. NkomoServing Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs - R. LeidnerOrganizational Democracy and Industrial RelationsCorporations, Democracy and the Public Good - S. BarleyWhence Democracy? A Review and Critique of the Conceptual Dimensions and Implications of the Business Case for Organizational Democracy - P. JohnsonAll Quiet on the Workplace Front: A Critique of Recent Trends in British Industrial Sociology - P. Thompson and S. AckroydReflections on the High Performance Paradigm′s Implications for Industrial Relations as a Field - J. Godard and J. DelaneyVOLUME THREE: MANAGEMENT SUBSPECIALISMSInformation SystemsInformation Systems and Critical Theory - K. LyytinenMichel Foucault in the Study of ICTs; Critique and Reappraisal - L. WillcocksOperational ResearchTechnical, Practical and Critical OR - Past, Present and Future? - J. MingersBeyond Methodology Choice: Critical Systems Thinking as Critically Systemic Discourse - W. UlrichEntrepreneurship′Against ′Enterprise′ (But Not against ′Enterprise′, for That Would Make No Sense) - P. Du GayThe Sublime Object of Entrepreneurship - C. Jones and A. SpicerAccounting and FinanceManufacturing Shareholder Value: The Role of Accounting in Organizational Transformation - M. Ezzamel, H. Willmott and F. WorthingtonAccounting and the Construction of the Governable Person. - P. Miller and T. O′LearyAuditing and the Production of Legitimacy - M. PowerMarketingRethinking Critical Marketing - A. Bradshaw and A. Furat FiatThe Cult(ure) of the Consumer - P. du Gay and G. SalamanThe Point of Selling: Capitalism, Consumption and Contradictions - M. KorczynskiMarketing and Critique: Prospects and Problems - G. MorganThe Distorted Mirror: Reflections on the Unintended Consequences of Advertising - R. PollayEnvironmental ManagementGreening Organizations: Critical Issues - J.M. Jermier and L.C. ForbesEnvironmental Management as Political Sustainability - D. LevyLimits to Anthropocentrism: Towards an Ecocentric Organization Paradigm? - R.E. Purser, C. Park and A. MontouriStrategic ManagementCorporate Strategy, Organizations and Subjectivity: A Critique - D. Knights and G. MorganCritical Approaches to Strategic Management - D. Levy, M. Alvesson and H. WillmottHuman Resource ManagementRepresenting People at Work - K. LeggeFoucault, Power/Knowledge and Its Relevance for Human Resource Management - B. TownleyCritical Management Education Grasping the Nettle: Possibilities and Pitfalls of a Critical Management Pedagogy - M. ReynoldsManagement Education : Provocations to a Debate - H. WillmottSpinning Disciplines: Critical Management Studies in the Context of the Transformation of Management Education - M. ZaldEthics and Corporate ResponsibilityCorporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - S.B. BanerjeeAs if Business Ethics were Possible, `within Such Limits... - C. JonesCorporate Governance and the Ethics of Narcissus - J. RobertsVOLUME FOUR: DEBATES, (SELF)CRITIQUES AND REFLEXIVITYThe Future of Critical Management Studies - M. AlvessonReflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organisation and Management Theory - M. Alvesson, C. Hardy and B. HarleyStill Servants of Power - A.P. BriefEconomics Language and Assumptions: How Theories Can Become Self-Fulfilling - F. Ferraro, J. Pfeffer and R. SuttonCritical Management Studies: Towards a More Mature Politics - C. GreyOn Striving to Give a Critical Edge to Critical Management Studies - A. HopwoodOrganization Theory in the Age of Deconstruction: Dualism, Gender and Postmodernism Revisited - D. KnightsCritical Performativity: The Unfinished Business of Critical Management Studies - A. Spicer, M. Alvesson and D. KärremanBrands, Boundaries and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies - P. ThompsonTheorizing Contemporary Control: Some Poststructuralist Responses to Some Critical Realist Questions - H. Willmott

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