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.

The author suggests that strategic organizational learning can be elaborated by applying the practice perspective on organizational learning to it. One implication of this perspective is the importance of moving away from attempts to manage knowing directly and attending more to design of work arrangements that facilitate the channeling of knowing toward the meeting of organizational objectives. This highlights the importance of power---particularly systemic power---for strategic organizational learning. Systemic power refers to the aspects of power that are tied less obviously to the influence of organizational actors and more closely to the role of disciplinary systems that work to control organizational members. The present study was designed to examine how a medium-size educational institution managed a building project, which was a part of its strategic change process. The author studied the process of planning and implementing the project as a means of exploring research questions relating to the role of power in shaping strategic organizational learning.

Emotions are central to social life and thus they should be central to organization theory. However, emotions have been treated implicitly rather than theorized directly in much of organization theory, and in some literatures, have been ignored altogether. This Element focuses on emotions as intersubjective, collective and relational, and reviews structuralist, people-centered and strategic approaches to emotions in different research streams to provide one of the first broad examinations of emotions in organization theory. Charlene Zietsma, Maxim Voronov, Madeline Toubiana and Anna Roberts provide suggestions for future research within each literature and look across the literatures to identify theoretical and methodological considerations.