Critical management studies scholars occupy a tenuous pos/tlOn in business schools. Their
location and intellectual trajectory needs to be understood in the political context of the …

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the
authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established social …

For many years, the core of critical management studies was labour process theory (LPT),
building on Braverman's (1976) reading of Marx. Recently, LPT has been losing momentum …

Abstract Labour Process Theory (LPT) is conventionally and rightly listed as one of the
analytical resources for Critical Management Studies (CMS). Yet, the relationships between …

The task of this introduction to “critical management” is twofold. First, it presents a short
overview of what management actually is, outlining four different perspectives on …

This book explores the relationship between critical theory and management research. One
of the main motivations for writing this text is because we strongly feel that critical theory …

The aim of this chapter is to provide an outline of the development and basic ideas of critical
theory (CT), one of the most prominent philosophical foundations of critical management …

The revolutionary Marxist message is avowedly antimanagement and anticapitalist, so it is
hardly surprising that Marxism has not been widely entertained in business schools. The …

How is it that a collection of working class drifters, sociology graduates, and ex-leftist
politicos have ended up teaching in UK business schools? Understanding the predicament …

Without too much effort, this reviewer could think of the names of half a dozen academics
whose output in recent decades has been voluminous, as well as being both critical and …