The Foundations of Management Knowledge: Examining Complex Relations Between Theory and Practice

by Jeffcutt, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415207799
• ISBN10: 0415207797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume brings together a group of leading academics from Europe, North America and Australasia to address a question of considerable contemporary concern: the nature and management of knowledge in relation to rapidly changing arenas of theory and practice. The contributors reframe management as a dynamic, creative and versatile field of knowledge that is both multidisciplinary and multi-contextual. The book provides a structured and informed set of readings for management educators as well as students and academics in the fields of critical management, organisational behaviour, human resource management and management development.

Table of Contents

Contemporary management knowledge: The Parameters of debate

Queen's University, Belfastt

The coming crisis of western management education

Manchester Business School

Management as a technical practice: Professionalization or responsibilization? Christopher Grey, University of Cambridge, UK.

American business school education and the revolution in interactive information technology

University of Hawaii, USA.

UK management skills and the future of management education. Ewart Keep, University of Warwick, UK.

Situated learning theory and underpinning disputes in management learning

University of Lancaster, UK.

Making learning critical: Identity, emotion and power in management development

University of Lancaster, UK.

Management learning as a critical process: The practice of storying

Brunel University, UK.

The shaping of dominant modes of thought: Rediscovering the foundations of management knowledge

University of Exeter, UK.

Hydridization and dis-identification: Fatal modernaization stratagies in organizations

Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

The politics and ethics of knowledge construction in corporations: Dialogic interaction and self other relations

University of Colorado, USA and Tanni Haas, City University of New York, USA

Gender citizenship in organizations

University of Trento, Italy

Laying new foundations: Manafacturing management knowledge in post-industrial knowledge economy

Calafornia School of Professional Psychology, USA

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