The Apple TV+ series Severance (2022-present) offers a dystopian portrayal of workplace life that intensifies real-world dynamics of control, boundary management, and identity regulation. This paper analyzes Severance as a speculative case study in organizational theory, treating the show's...

Socio-ecological transformations are long-term reconfigurations of socio-technical and socio-economic provisioning systems, contested through struggles over pathways, timelines, and distributive consequences. Because these struggles are fought through public sense-making as well as policy and...

Can meaningful connections between academics, consultants, and practitioners of workplace democracy be created to bring about critically inspired change? This article presents an exploration of our experiment in producing a practical and engaged form of Critical Management Studies (CMS) through...

It is well known that there is little interest in Nietzschean thought in the management sciences. This observation is supported by the low number of articles published in management science journals that use what could be called the Nietzschean conceptual framework or even part of it. This...

"The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing curates cutting-edge research in Critical Marketing Studies into a single authoritative volume. Bringing together leading scholars and emerging voices, it offers a comprehensive survey of this vibrant field. This second edition includes new research...

"Challenging Colonizing Logics within Management Research disrupts the assumption that the Western scientific method, with its emphasis on objectivity, measurement and categorizations is the best way to develop management knowledge. By reviewing the history of management as a discipline, Donna...

"Written by an international team of respected scholars, Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach, 3rd Edition adopts a critical perspective to examine the core management function of HRM in all its complexity - including its darker sides. Despite over three decades of debate around the...

"This expansive Encyclopedia provides a detailed overview of Critical Management Studies (CMS). This exciting and iconoclastic area of research and scholarship has had a major impact on the academic field of business and management studies, opening up possibilities for exploring radical and...

Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences offers an accessible account of theorising the archive, contesting the narrow definitions of the archive with a view beyond a mere repository of documents. Offering an accessible theorised discussion of business archives...

This chapter offers some reflections on one of the sources of critical management education (CME) in the UK that hinge around the connection of the personal and the political. It sketches what I take to be the distinctiveness of CME and considers what this means in practice. The chapter then...

We examine what happens to critical management education (CME) and its educators where intense measurement and regulation of time in higher education leave little room for ‘temporal autonomy’, which is crucial for critical processes of management education such as creative pause, reflection...

This chapter reflects on a trial of an unorthodox assessment on an MBA programme at the University of Suffolk in the UK. The diorama is thus presented as an innovative and effective pedagogical device for cultivating critical thinking on management degree programmes, particularly concerning the...

In this chapter, we study the nexus between class privilege and social inequality through management education. To do so, we conducted exercises with management students at an elite private business school in the Global South (i.e., Pakistan) with the specific intent to invoke reflexivity among...

In this chapter, I offer an autoethnographic account of my work and experiences as a critical management studies scholar and educator at a South African public university. Post-apartheid South Africa presents a unique context given the high rates of economic, racial and gender inequalities that...

In this chapter, I reflect on my experiences as a critical management education (CME) practitioner, with the aim to offer advice and suggestions for other business school educators. My reflections are particularly directed at those who might be new to CME and would like to implement it in their...

This chapter provides a reflection on aspects of the development of critical management education (CME). It is a personal account, and certainly a partial one in both senses of that word, but there are two reasons why I hope it is not also self-indulgent. The first is that, by chance of...

This chapter is rooted in the rich research tradition, which, applying critical theory, explores management practices, unveiling how those, often portrayed as rational and inevitable, are deeply entrenched in structural hegemonies. From this perspective, the objective of this chapter is to...