Critical Management Studies at Work: Negotiating Tensions between Theory and Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847204007 ISBN 13: 9781847204004

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This book is the first of its kind to reflect on what it means to actually perform critical management studies (CMS): how consultants, researchers, teachers and managers negotiate the tensions they experience in their everyday practice.

Critical management studies seeks to expose the hidden workings of power, as well as to identify and reform the mundane and frequently unnoticed practices that privilege some groups and individuals at the expense of others, creating injustices in organizations and in the society at large. The authors show how CMS draws on a variety of approaches to ranslate its insights into practice.

Combining rich theoretical and empirical contributions with reflections on CMS practice in various forms, this unique book is essential reading for critical researchers, educators and graduate students in business and management fields.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847204007
• ISBN 13: 9781847204004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Wolfram Cox Julie, LeTrent-Jones Tony G., Voronov Maxim, Weir David