Critical Management Studies A Reader

by Grey, Chris; Willmott, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780199286072
• ISBN10: 0199286078
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

'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 Biography

Chris Grey is a Reader in Organization Theory at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Essential Readings in Management Learning (with Elena Antonacopoulou, Sage, 2003), Editor-in-chief of Management Learning, European Co-editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Critical Journal of International Business, Philosophy of Management, and Organization.
Hugh Willmott is Diageo Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Critical Management Studies (Sage, 1992), and Studying Management Critically (Sage, 2003) - both with Mats Alvesson, and co-author with Mats Alvesson of Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1996). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
1. Introduction
Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott	1	(20)
SECTION I: ANTICIPATING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES
2. Management Ideology
P.D. Anthony	21	(8)
3. The Servants of Power
Loren Baritz	29	(17)
4. Critical Issues in Organizations
Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley	46	(4)
5. The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills	50	(10)
SECTION II: STUDYING MANAGEMENT CRITICALLY
6. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies
Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz	60	(47)
7. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management
David Knights	107	(25)
8. The Politics of Organizational Analysis
Richard Marsden	132	(39)
SECTION III: CRITICAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT
9. Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism
Paul S. Adler	171	(38)
10. Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams
James R. Barker	209	(35)
11. The Managing of the (Third) World
Bill Cooke	244	(28)
12. The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment
Heather Hopfl	272	(12)
13. Sexuality at Work
Rosemary Pringle	284	(20)
14. Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management
Barbara Townley	304	(20)
15. Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal
Hugh Willmott	324	(29)
SECTION IV: ASSESSING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES
16. Writing Critical Management Studies
Martin Parker	353	(11)
17. Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies
Paul Thompson	364	(19)
18. Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory
Edward Wray-Bliss	383