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Publication date: 5 September 2013

Changing Institutions: Critical Management Studies as a Social Movement ☆

Earlier versions of this chapter were presented at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Hawaii, 2005 and at the European Group for Organization Studies Annual Conference, Bergen, 2006 and seminars at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick during 2007. The work involved as a panel member in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise resulted in the draft being set aside. The invitation to contribute to this volume prompted me to return to it and update it. I would like to thank everyone who has participated in discussing, and providing comments on, the paper and to the editors of this collection for inviting me to contribute to it.

Hugh Willmott

To consider Critical Management Studies as a social movement.

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To consider Critical Management Studies as a social movement.

Design/methodology/approach

The purpose is fulfilled by reflecting upon the history of Critical Management Studies by reference to social movement theory, institutional theory and the social theory of hegemony.

Findings

Critical Management Studies is plausibly understood as a social movement.

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The chapter offers a fresh perspective on Critical Management Studies by representing it as a movement rather than as a specialist field of knowledge.

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Getting Things Done
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-6072(2013)0000002011
ISBN: 978-1-78190-954-6

Keywords

  • Critical Management Studies
  • management education
  • institutional change
  • social movement theory
  • institutional theory
  • social theory of hegemony

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Publication date: 11 April 2017

Introduction: Feminist and Queer Politics in Critical Management Studies

Alison Pullen, Nancy Harding and Mary Phillips

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Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-607220160000003001
ISBN: 978-1-78635-498-3

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Book part
Publication date: 1 September 2017

Conceptual Part – Reviewing the Literature

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The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2059-65612017002
ISBN: 978-1-78743-389-2

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Publication date: 1 September 2017

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The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2059-65612017008
ISBN: 978-1-78743-389-2

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Publication date: 9 March 2012

From the Frankfurt School to business schools: critical management studies in Turkey

Kerim Ozcan

Critical management studies (CMS), as an unorthodox management perspective, has become more and more accepted in Western business schools. The purpose of this paper is to…

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Critical management studies (CMS), as an unorthodox management perspective, has become more and more accepted in Western business schools. The purpose of this paper is to problematize its circulation area and interrogate to what extent CMS has penetrated Turkish academia.

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The paper reviews papers presented and published in The National Management/Organization Conference which has been held annually for the last 19 years. In addition, the paper examines the management programs of the top 20 Turkish universities' business schools, in terms of whether their curricula include any critical content.

Findings

It is suggested that CMS has not found resonance in Turkey. This case is argued on a set of dynamics as follows: the Americanization process in knowledge producing, economic integration into American vision, late industrialization, bureaucratic political tradition, statism, and some cultural characteristics.

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Studies employing critical management arguments and those on the dissemination of critical theory in Turkey seem to be quite silent. This paper questions CMS's place in Turkish management literature, explains the dynamics of its (under)development, and suggests ways in which CMS could be become more attractive in this part of the world.

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International Journal of Organizational Analysis, vol. 20 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/19348831211215696
ISSN: 1934-8835

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  • Turkey
  • Universities
  • Business schools
  • Curricula
  • Critical management studies
  • Americanization
  • Orthodox management

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Article
Publication date: 1 August 2002

Organizing/theorizing: developments in organization theory and practice

Pawan Budhwar, Andy Crane, Annette Davies, Rick Delbridge, Tim Edwards, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Lloyd Harris, Emmanuel Ogbonna and Robyn Thomas

Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their…

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Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce – not even, in many cases, describing workers as assets! Describes many studies to back up this claim in theis work based on the 2002 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, in Cardiff, Wales.

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Management Research News, vol. 25 no. 8/9/10
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01409170210783368
ISSN: 0140-9174

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  • Market intelligence
  • Process innovation
  • Employee attitudes

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Publication date: 9 March 2016

Critical Organization Theory

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Organization Theory
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2059-65612016014
ISBN: 978-1-78560-946-6

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Publication date: 5 September 2013

Border Thinking in Action: Should Critical Management Studies Get Anything Done?

Alex Faria

Drawing upon the concepts of transmodernity, pluriversality and border thinking the author stands in a more practical fashion for the co-creation of an-other performative…

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Drawing upon the concepts of transmodernity, pluriversality and border thinking the author stands in a more practical fashion for the co-creation of an-other performative CMS which fosters the decolonization of (critical) management studies – as a way to contribute “to concretely changing the world(s) for the better” (as claimed by the organizers of the symposium “should critical management studies get anything done?” held at the Academy of Management Meeting in 2012 in Boston).

Methodology/approach

From a more practical and less opaque perspective on border thinking it is shown how and why border thinking can both enable and constrain critical scholars and people to move across the borders of the colonial difference and from Eurocentric modernity toward transmodern pluriversality.

Findings

The current performative turn of CMS fails to address the agency of critical knowledge as a potential reworking of Occidentalism which can be mobilized to “manage” the rise of alternatives and knowledges from the rest of the world in general and from emerging economies in particular.

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Border thinking as a crucial concept from the coloniality/modernity research program from Latin America is taken as an important contribution from the colonial difference to the co-creation of decolonial management studies (DMS), an-other performative CMS which fosters the construction of a world in which many worlds and knowledges can coexist as a way to change it for the better.

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Getting Things Done
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-6072(2013)0000002018
ISBN: 978-1-78190-954-6

Keywords

  • Critical management studies
  • modernity/coloniality
  • critical performativity
  • decolonial management studies
  • border thinking
  • Latin America

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Article
Publication date: 29 August 2019

Critical sensemaking: challenges and promises

Eeva Aromaa, Päivi Eriksson, Jean Helms Mills, Esa Hiltunen, Maarit Lammassaari and Albert J. Mills

The purpose of this paper is to analyze current literature on critical sensemaking (CSM) to assess its significance and potential for understanding the role of agency in…

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze current literature on critical sensemaking (CSM) to assess its significance and potential for understanding the role of agency in management and organizational studies.

Design/methodology/approach

The analysis involves an examination of a selection of 51 applied studies that cite, draw on and contribute to CSM, to assess the challenges and potential of utilizing CSM.

Findings

The paper reveals the range of organizational issues that this work has been grappling with; the unique insights that CSM has revealed in the study of management and organizations; and some of the challenges and promises of CSM for studying agency in context. This sets up discussion of organizational issues and insights provided by CSM to reveal its potential in dealing with issues of agency in organizations. The sheer scope of CSM studies indicates that it has relevance for a range of management researchers, including those interested in behavior at work, theories of organization, leadership and crisis management, diversity management, emotion, ethics and justice, and many more.

Research limitations/implications

The main focus is restricted to providing a working knowledge of CSM rather than other approaches to agency.

Practical implications

The paper outlines the challenges and potential for applying the CSM theory.

Social implications

The paper reveals the range of problem-solving issues that CSM studies have been applied to.

Originality/value

This is the first major review of the challenges and potential of applying CSM; concluding with a discussion of its strengths and limitations and providing a summary of insights for future work.

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Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-05-2018-1645
ISSN: 1746-5648

Keywords

  • Critical sensemaking
  • Agency
  • Power
  • Context
  • Discourse
  • Rules

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Publication date: 11 April 2017

Feminist Critical Management Studies in the Lecture Hall: A Space for Activism and Hope?

Katherine J. C. Sang and Steven Glasgow

This chapter explores the potential for the classroom to be a space for activism and hope within the contemporary business school. Drawing on the extant literature, a…

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This chapter explores the potential for the classroom to be a space for activism and hope within the contemporary business school. Drawing on the extant literature, a reflexive account of our own teaching and learning practice, and a small number of interviews with academics using feminist material in their teaching in business schools, we explore the challenges, opportunities and joys experienced in the feminist classroom. We suggest that engaging in feminist teaching practice and theory can offer an opportunity for academics to engage in the critical management studies practice which is often said to be lacking within management research. We begin by setting out the extant positioning of Critical Management Studies, moving to an analysis of the educational context. Interwoven through this are our own perspectives. Our own reflections do not reveal the identities of students.

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Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-607220160000003008
ISBN: 978-1-78635-498-3

Keywords

  • Classroom
  • activism
  • business school
  • feminism
  • CMS
  • education

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