'Critical Management Studies', or 'CMS', describes a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Management Studies, and the growing interest in CMS has produced a vibrant and exciting body of research.
Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area, introduce seventeen readings which reflect these developments, and show CMS' importance. As an assessment of CMS, the Reader will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of Management Studies. As an introduction to CMS, it will prove invaluable to students taking courses requiring familiarity with the CMS literature.
1. Introduction ; SECTION I: ANTICIPATING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ; 2. Management Ideology ; 3. The Servants of Power ; 4. Critical Issues in Organizations ; 5. The Power Elite ; SECTION II: STUDYING MANAGEMENT CRITICALLY ; 6. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies ; 7. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management ; 8. The Politics of Organizational Analysis ; SECTION III: CRITICAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT ; 9. Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism ; 10. Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams ; 11. The Managing of the (Third) World ; 12. The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment ; 13. Sexuality at Work ; 14. Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management ; 15. Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal ; SECTION IV: ASSESSING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ; 17. Writing Critical Management Studies ; 18. Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies ; 19. Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory
