'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
produced a vibrant and exciting body of work. Christopher Grey and
Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area, have collected
together seventeen 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
its 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. Includes work by: Paul S. Adler, Mats Alvesson, P. D.
Anthony, James R. Barker, Loren Baritz, Stewart Clegg, Bill Cooke,
Stanley Deetz, David Dunkerley, Christopher Grey, Heather Hopfl,
David Knights, Richard Marsden, C Wright Mills, Martin Parker,
Rosemary Pringle, Paul Thompson, Barbara Townley, Hugh Willmott,
and Edward Wray-Bliss.
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