Critical Management Studies At Work: Negotiating Tensions Between Theory and Practice

Critical Management Studies At Work: Negotiating Tensions Between Theory and Practice Summary:
  
By Julie Wolfram Cox, Tony G. LeTrent-Jones, Maxim Voronov, David Weir
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Pub
Number Of Pages: 323
Publication Date:   2009-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN:    1847204007
ISBN-13 / EAN:     9781847204004
Product Description: 

`This is an excellent text. It covers an impressive range of salient topics. Moreover, it provides a nuanced, considered and balanced treatment of both conceptual and practical aspects of critical management studies.'

- Cliff Oswick, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

This book is the first of its kind to reflect on what it means to actually perform critical management studies (CMS): how consultants, researchers, teachers and managers negotiate the tensions they experience in their everyday practice.

Critical management studies seeks to expose the hidden workings of power, as well as to identify and reform the mundane and frequently unnoticed practices that privilege some groups and individuals at the expense of others, creating injustices in organizations and in the society at large. The authors show how CMS draws on a variety of approaches to 
translate its insights into practice.

Combining rich theoretical and empirical contributions with reflections on CMS practice in various forms, this unique book is essential reading for critical researchers, educators and graduate students in business and management fields.

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