Studying management critically

edited by Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott

Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide-ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms. The book offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as: accounting; strategic management; marketing; business ethics; and environmental management. The leading international contributors also examine: - the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation - the role of architecture as a repressive an

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Alternative title:	Critical management studies.
Year of publication:	c2003
Other Persons:	Alvesson, Mats (contributor) ; Willmott, Hugh (contributor)
Publisher:	London : Sage Publications
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (x, 229 p) 25 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes Includes some revised and updated articles from: Critical management studies published in 1992 Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Disciplinary Power, Conflict Suppression and Human Resources Management; Chapter 3 - On Fieldwork in Habermasian Way: Critical Ethnography and The Extra-ordinary Chapter of Ordinary Professional Work; Chapter 4 - Feminist Theory and Critical Theory: Unexplored Synergies; Chapter 5 - Critical Approaches to Strategic Management; Chapter 6 - Marketing and Critique: Prospects and Problems; Chapter 7 - Accounting and Critical Theory; Chapter 8 - Greening Organizations: Critical Issues Chapter 9 - Building Better Worlds? Architecture and Critical Management StudiesChapter 10 - Business, Ethics and Business Ethics: Critical theory and Negative Dialectics; Author Index; Subject Index Chapter 9 - Building Better Worlds? Architecture and Critical Management StudiesChapter 10 - Business, Ethics and Business Ethics: Critical theory and Negative Dialectics; Author Index; Subject Index; Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-7619-6736-2 ; 978-0-7619-6737-8 ; 978-0-7619-6736-1
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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