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3 Critical Management Studies
Abstract
Critical management studies (CMS) offers a range of alternatives to mainstream management theory with a view to radically transforming management practice. The common core is deep skepticism regarding the moral defensibility and the social and ecological sustainability of prevailing conceptions and forms of management and organization. CMS's motivating concern is neither the personal failures of individual managers nor the poor management of specific firms, but the social injustice and environmental destructiveness of the broader social and economic systems that these managers and firms serve and reproduce. This chapter reviews CMS's progress, main themes, theoretical and epistemological premises, and main projects; we also identify some problems and make some proposals. Our aim is to provide an accessible overview of a growing movement in management studies.
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- Authors
- Adler, P. S., Forbes, L. C., & Willmott, H. C.
- Venue
- Academy of Management Annals
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2007-12-01
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 119-179
- ISSN
- 1941-6067 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4292675164
- Cited by
- 437
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 20.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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