Critical Management Studies

A Reader

Edited by Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott

Oxford Management Readers

18 key readings show the development and vibrancy of Critical Management Studies
Each reading and its significance is discussed
Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott's introduction reflects more broadly on the nature of Critical Management Studies

Critical Management Studies

A Reader

Edited by Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott

Description

'Critical Management Studies' or 'CMS' has emerged over the last ten years as the term to describe a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of management studies. In this time, CMS has come to exert an increasing influence in Management and Management Studies, and while it has prompted fierce debate about its validity and use, there is no doubt that the rapidly growing interest in CMS has produces a vibrant and exciting body of work. Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area have collected together eighteen readings, which reflect these developments, and show why CMS has become an important field of research. The book is divided into four sections, 'Anticipating CMS', looking at some of the roots of CMS, 'Studying Management Critically', 'Critical Studies of Management', and 'Assessing CMS", examining some of the internal and external critical discussions of CMS. Each reading and it's significance is introduced by the editors, and in their introduction to the reader, they reflect more broadly on the history of CMS. In particular, they consider its institutionalization, both in terms of its becoming an identifiable body of work or approach, and its institutional context within business schools and indeed what it means to produce a Reader of critical work. As an assessment of CMS, the Reader will be of interest to academics, researchers and students of Management Studies. As an introduction to CMS, the book will prove invaluable to students taking courses requiring familiarity with the CMS literature.

Critical Management Studies

A Reader

Edited by Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott

Oxford Management Readers

1. Introduction, Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott
Section I: Anticipating Critical Management Studies
2. Management Ideology, P. D. Anthony
3. The Servants of Power, Loren Baritz
4. Critical Issues in Organizations, Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley
5. The Power Elite, C Wright Mills
Section II: Studying Management Critically
6. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies, Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz
7. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management, David Knights
8. The Politics of Organizational Analysis, Richard Marsden
Section III: Critical Studies of Management
9. Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism, Paul S. Adler
10. Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams, James R. Barker
11. The Managing of the (Third) World, Bill Cooke
12. The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment, Heather Hopfl
13. Uchi, Gender, and Part-Time Work, Dorinne K. Kondo
14. Sexuality at Work, Rosemary Pringle
15. Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management, Barbara Townley
16. Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal, Hugh Willmott
Section IV: Assessing Critical Management Studies
17. Writing Critical Management Studies, Martin Parker
18. Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies, Paul Thompson
19. Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory, Edward Wray-Bliss

Critical Management Studies

A Reader

Edited by Chris Grey and Hugh Willmott

Oxford Management Readers

Author Information

Chris Grey is a Reader in Organization Theory at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Essential Readings in Management Learning (with Elena Antonacopoulou, Sage, 2003), Editor-in-chief of Management Learning, European Co-editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Critical Journal of International Business, Philosophy of Management, and Organization.
Hugh Willmott is Diageo Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Critical Management Studies (Sage, 1992), and Studying Management Critically (Sage, 2003) - both with Mats Alvesson, and co-author with Mats Alvesson of Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1996). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.

Contributors:

Paul S. Adler, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Mats Alvesson, University of Lund
P. D. Anthony
James R. Barker, Department of Management, United States Air Force Academy
Loren Baritz, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Stewart Clegg, School of Management, University of Technology, Sydney
Bill Cooke, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado, Boluder
David Dunkerley, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan
Christopher Grey, University of Cambridge
Heather Hopfl, Department of Accounting, Finance, and Management, University of Essex
David Knights, Department of Management, Keele University
Richard Marsden, Centre for Integrated Study, Athabasca University
C Wright Mills (1916-62), Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
Martin Parker, The Management Centre, University of Leicester
Rosemary Pringle, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton
Paul Thompson, Department of Human Resource Management, University of Strathclyde
Barbara Townley, Management School, University of Edinburgh
Hugh Willmott, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge
Edward Wray-Bliss, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham