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Critical management studies / edited by Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott.

Contributor(s): Alvesson, Mats, 1956- | Willmott, Hugh.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Sage, 1992Description: ix, 230 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0803984545 (v) (hbk); 0803984553 (m) (pbk).Subject(s): Management | Critical theoryDDC classification: 658
Contents:
Critical theory and management studies: An introduction / Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott -- Disciplinary power in the modern corporation / Stanley Deetz -- Critical ethnography: On fieldwork in a habermasian way / John Forester -- The organization of pleasure / Gibson Burrell -- Technical, practical and critical OR - past, present and future? / John Mingers -- Critical theory and accounting / Michael Power and Richard Laughlin -- Marketing discourse and practice: Towards a critical analysis / Glenn Morgan -- Information systems and critical theory / Kalle Lyytinen -- Personnel/Organization psychology: A critique of the discipline / Brian D. Steffy and Andrew J. Grimes -- Critical social science for managers? Promising and perverse possibilities / Walter R. Nord and John M. Jermier.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Drawing on a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, particularly Critical Theory, this volume introduces a critical analysis for the study of management and the various management functions.

The book examines: the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the construction of pleasure as a potentially subversive and emancipatory force in organizational life; the double-edged role of a critical social science for managers; and doing critical management research. It also analyzes the nature and consequences of current practices in accounting, operational research, marketing, personnel and organizational psychology and information systems. Key issues of power/knowledge relations across these areas are addressed and new agendas both for these fields and for management studies as a whole are introduced.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical theory and management studies: An introduction / Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott -- Disciplinary power in the modern corporation / Stanley Deetz -- Critical ethnography: On fieldwork in a habermasian way / John Forester -- The organization of pleasure / Gibson Burrell -- Technical, practical and critical OR - past, present and future? / John Mingers -- Critical theory and accounting / Michael Power and Richard Laughlin -- Marketing discourse and practice: Towards a critical analysis / Glenn Morgan -- Information systems and critical theory / Kalle Lyytinen -- Personnel/Organization psychology: A critique of the discipline / Brian D. Steffy and Andrew J. Grimes -- Critical social science for managers? Promising and perverse possibilities / Walter R. Nord and John M. Jermier.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Critical Theory and Management Studies
  • An Introduction
  • Disciplinary Power in the Modern Corporation
  • Critical Ethnography
  • On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way
  • The Organization of Pleasure
  • Technical, Practical and Critical O.R. - Past, Present and Future?
  • Critical Theory and Accounting
  • Marketing Discourse and Practice
  • Towards a Critical Analysis
  • Information Systems and Critical Theory
  • Personnel/Organization Psychology
  • A Critique of the Discipline
  • Critical Social Science for Managers? Promising Perverse Possibilities

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