Critical Management Studies

Business Bullshit considers why empty talk is so popular, and outlines the impact it has on organizations and the people who work there.  The author makes a case for why organizations need to avoid empty talk and reconnect with core activities. This provocative, lucid book is essential reading for p..

Emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed can cause organizations to institute the 'problem of difference', so that attempts to remove inequality may actually promote it by making differences visible and stable...

Emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed can cause organizations to institute the 'problem of difference', so that attempts to remove inequality may actually promote it by making differences visible and stable...

This work covers public sector collective bargaining in the United States today. It seeks to understand the real nature of PSB by examining eight states where the action is taking place - California, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin...

This work covers public sector collective bargaining in the United States today. It seeks to understand the real nature of PSB by examining eight states where the action is taking place - California, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin...

This fascinating book argues for a new way of looking at the world and at human systems, companies or (Western) society as a whole. Well-researched and well-argued, this book skilfully guides the reader through a complex and interesting subject...

This fascinating book argues for a new way of looking at the world and at human systems, companies or (Western) society as a whole. Well-researched and well-argued, this book skilfully guides the reader through a complex and interesting subject...

This book assesses CMS in fourteen countries and regions where it has a more or less extensive presence. Each chapter covers the nature, extent, context and prospects of CMS within each locality. Overall, CMS emerges as a global project conducted in numerous local accents...

This book extends critical realism by showing how it has been applied to topics in critical management studies, accountancy, marketing, health care management, operations research, the nature of work, HRM, labour process and more...

Dance and Organization is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods to the study of management. It adds a missing piece to a canon of scholarly books in the area of art and management that have applied arts analogies to the business world, referring for example, to "organiza..

This book highlights the diverse organizational avenues through which Fair Trade entrepreneurs may concretely implement the hybrid aims of Fair Trade: making business, impacting small-scale producer groups and achieving systemic social change. Through a study across Europe, this book examines Fair T..

This book highlights the diverse organizational avenues through which Fair Trade entrepreneurs may concretely implement the hybrid aims of Fair Trade: making business, impacting small-scale producer groups and achieving systemic social change. Through a study across Europe, this book examines Fair T..