Critical Management Studies In South Africa

Author : Geoff A. Goldman,C.W. Callaghan,Gregory John Lee,Nthabiseng V. Moraka,Hester Nienaber,Shaun Ruggunan,Whitey (Tjaart Nicholaas) van der Linde
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928396123

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Critical management studies in the South African context by Geoff A. Goldman,C.W. Callaghan,Gregory John Lee,Nthabiseng V. Moraka,Hester Nienaber,Shaun Ruggunan,Whitey (Tjaart Nicholaas) van der Linde Pdf

The purpose of this book is to establish the first formalised scholarly work on critical management studies (CMS) in the South African context. The book is a collection of seven chapters, six of which employ a conceptual methodology and one of which follows an interpretive paradigm employing qualitative methods of inquiry. CMS is a relatively young school of thought, arising in the early 1990s and still very much a peripheral movement within the academic discipline of management. South Africa has very little scholarship on CMS as precious few scholars work in this space. Furthermore, publication opportunities are virtually non-existent as CMS is virtually unknown in the South African community of management scholars. Thus, this book represents the first academic work on CMS published in South Africa, written and reviewed by scholars who are familiar with the field. The primary target readership would be management academics, but it could also be a useful reference for postgraduate students in management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781776341900

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Critical management studies in South Africa by Anonim Pdf

This book shows how Critical Management Studies (CMS) scholarship is starting to develop a character of its own in South Africa. It attests to CMS slowly gaining momentum and acquiring an identity of its own amongst South African scholars. However, management studies in South Africa is dominated by capitalist ideology and positivist methodology. Although Interpretive scholarship has gained some momentum, it still falls within the parameters of ‘mainstream’ capitalist thinking. Scholarship outside the domain of capitalist thinking, such as critical scholarship, remains sorely underexplored. Being entrenched in the positivist tradition is arguably a major Achilles’ Heel for the progression of management as a field of inquiry. CMS presents a vehicle for alternative epistemologies to be heard in the management discourse. With its focus on power imbalances, struggles for emancipation from oppression, and distrust of capitalism, CMS provides the peripheral point of view with a voice. CMS presents a space where scholars can engage with South African realities surrounding political, cultural, social, and historical contexts and issues in management. This book is promoting CMS to the scholarly community to show that there are exciting possibilities being offered by a different approach to management scholarship. This book also forms part of a larger project of growing CMS in South Africa and is a collection of original works by academics actively working in CMS, following various methodological approaches which can be categorised into two broad methodological categories, namely, conceptual work and empirical work following an Interpretive approach.

Author : Julie Wolfram Cox,Tony G. LeTrent-Jones,Maxim Voronov,David Weir
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848449497

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Critical Management Studies at Work by Julie Wolfram Cox,Tony G. LeTrent-Jones,Maxim Voronov,David Weir Pdf

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.

Author : Geoff A. Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Sociology (General)
ISBN : 1928396135

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Critical Management Studies in the South African Context by Geoff A. Goldman Pdf

The purpose of the book is to establish the first formalised scholarly work on critical management studies (CMS) in the South African context. The book is a collection of seven chapters, six of which employ a conceptual methodology and one of which follows an interpretive paradigm employing qualitative methods of inquiry. CMS is a relatively young school of thought, arising in the early 1990s and still very much being a peripheral movement within the academic discipline of management. South Africa has very little scholarship on CMS as precious few scholars work in this space. Furthermore, publication opportunities are virtually non-existent as CMS is virtually unknown in the South African community of management scholars. Thus, this book represents the first academic work on CMS published in South Africa, written and reviewed by scholars who are familiar with the field. The primary target readership would be management academics, but it could also be a useful reference for postgraduate students in management. A digital similarities index report confirms the originality of the work and that it has not been plagiarised or published elsewhere.

Author : Shaun Ruggunan,R. Sooryamoorthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319996578

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Management Studies in South Africa by Shaun Ruggunan,R. Sooryamoorthy Pdf

This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. The unique political journey of South Africa provides a distinctive context in which to explore the progression of management studies within a developing state. The authors consider how Apartheid has configured the discipline of management studies to reflect certain racial, institutional and gendered trends, and analyse the extent to which these trends have adapted or changed in post-Apartheid times. Appealing to management scholars and professionals, this book provides implications for policy and practice within the South African higher education sector, and presents avenues for future research.

Author : Anshuman Prasad,Pushkala Prasad,Albert J. Mills,Jean Helms Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134511303

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The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies by Anshuman Prasad,Pushkala Prasad,Albert J. Mills,Jean Helms Mills Pdf

The scholarly field of Critical Management Studies (CMS) is in a state of flux. Against a backdrop of dramatic global shifts, CMS scholarship has lately taken a number of new and exciting directions and, at times, challenged older critical voices. Novel theoretical frameworks and diverse research interests mark the CMS field as never before. Interrogating conventional critiques of management and arguing for fresh approaches, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies captures this intellectual ferment and new spirit of inquiry within CMS, and showcases the pluralistic generation of CMS scholars that has emerged in recent years. Setting the scene for a crucial period for the discipline, this insightful volume covers new ground and essential areas grouped under the following themes: Critique and its (dis-)contents Difference, otherness, marginality Knowledge at the crossroads History and discourse Global predicaments. Drawing on the expertise of an international team of contributing scholars, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies is a rich resource and the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of management and organization.

Author : Christopher Grey,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199286072

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Critical Management Studies by Christopher Grey,Hugh Willmott Pdf

'Critical Management Studies', or 'CMS', describes a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Management Studies, and the growing interest in CMS has produced a vibrant and exciting body of research. Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott, leading authorities in this area, introduce seventeen readings which reflect these developments, and show CMS' importance. As an assessment of CMS, the Reader will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of Management Studies. As an introduction to CMS, it will prove invaluable to stu.

Author : Paul S. Adler,Linda C Forbes,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 9383657219

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Critical Management Studies by Paul S. Adler,Linda C Forbes,Hugh Willmott Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Christopher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319764122

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Meeting Expectations in Management Education by Elizabeth Christopher Pdf

This book brings together a variety of international, cross-cultural case studies of management education programmes and discusses the results in light of the present higher social expectations on managerial behaviour. It presents both traditional and unusual approaches to management education, examining concept mapping, transformational learning theory, the practice-theory gap, cultural indoctrination and business students’ increased concern with socio-ecological sustainability. It moves from restating the purpose of university business schools to discussing the construction of conducive learning environments on introductory courses and of communities of learning through ‘harmonised teaching’. In addressing the social and ethical problems that will soon confront all managers, Meeting Expectations is a valuable resource for teachers, students and practitioners.

Author : Jasmin Mahadevan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781526415011

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross-Cultural Management by Jasmin Mahadevan Pdf

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

Author : Alison Pullen,Nancy Harding,Mary Phillips
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786354976

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Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies by Alison Pullen,Nancy Harding,Mary Phillips Pdf

'What is CMS and what is its future?' is a question that has beguiled and frustrated academics within and outside its community. Using ideas from feminist and queer theory, here, authors aim to generate thinking on the future of CMS and ideas of how scholarly communities can engage in working lives differently.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1369007605

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Critical Management Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 1315796082

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Critical Management Studies by Christopher Grey Pdf

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992). In the two decades that have followed, CMS has been remarkably successful in establishing itself not just as a 'term' but as a recognizable tradition or approach. The emerging status of CMS as an overall approach has been both encouraged and marked by a growing range of handbooks, readers and textbooks. Yet the literature is dominated by writings from the UK and Scandinavia in particular, and the tendency is to treat this literature as constituting CMS. However, the meaning, practice, constraints and context of CMS vary considerably between different countries, cultures and language communities. This volume surveys fourteen various countries and regions where CMS has acquired some following and seeks to explore the different ways in which CMS is understood and the different contexts within which it operates, as well as its possible future development.

Author : Jeff Hearn,Kadri Aavik,David L. Collinson,Anika Thym
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000982893

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Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations by Jeff Hearn,Kadri Aavik,David L. Collinson,Anika Thym Pdf

This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and management do not seem to notice they are often talking a lot about men and masculinities. The Handbook challenges this general tendency to avoid gendering men by bringing together a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that: engage with not only formal organizations, such as businesses and state organizations, but also processes of organizing within and beyond organizations; address emergent and future issues on men, masculinities and organizations, such as tech masculinities, men’s emotions, sexualities and violences, animal advocacy and environmental issues, and men and masculinities in pandemics. Targeted at scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in links between men, masculinities, organizations and organizing, this landmark Handbook is an invaluable resource for those working in and beyond such fi elds as gender studies, organization, leadership and management studies, political science, sociology, social and public policy, and social movement studies.

Author : Michael Cross,amasa ndofirepi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463008457

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Knowledge and Change in African Universities by Michael Cross,amasa ndofirepi Pdf

While African universities retain their core function as primary institutions for advancement of knowledge, they have undergone fundamental changes in this regard. These changes have been triggered by a multiplicity of factors, including the need to address past economic and social imbalances, higher education expansion alongside demographic and economic growth concerns, and student throughput and success with the realization that greater participation has not meant greater equity. Constraining these changes is largely the failure to recognize the encroachment of the profit motive into the academy, or a shift from a public good knowledge/learning regime to a neo-liberal knowledge/learning regime. Neo-liberalism, with its emphasis on the economic and market function of the university, rather than the social function, is increasingly destabilizing higher education particularly in the domain of knowledge, making it increasingly unresponsive to local social and cultural needs. Corporate organizational practices, commodification and commercialization of knowledge, dictated by market ethics, dominate university practices in Africa with negative impact on professional values, norms and beliefs. Under such circumstances, African humanist progressive virtues (e.g. social solidarity, compassion, positive human relations and citizenship), democratic principles (equity and social justice) and the commitment to decolonization ideals guided by altruism and common good, are under serious threat. The book goes a long way in unraveling how African universities can respond to these challenges at the levels of institutional management, academic scholarship, the structure of knowledge production and distribution, institutional culture, policy and curriculum.