Various forms of critical theory have been suggested to illuminate social practices. Versions
of such theories has been promoted for the analysis of management, organizations and …

First published in 1969, British Management Thought is an indispensable text for anyone
with a critical interest in the development of British management philosophy, from …

1970s and beginning of the 1980s (for example, Benson 1977; Burrell and Morgan 1979;
Frost 1980; Deetz and Kersten 1983; Fischer and Sirianni 1984) and postmodernism …

When, about thirty years ago, Richard K. Brown gave a speech to the British Sociological
Association on research about working life, he said: It never was satisfactory …

How do groups resist the apparently all-encompassing discourse of management?
Rejecting current theories of resistance asre-appropriation'ormicro-politics', we argue that …

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The existence of an identifiable group of people who are labelled 'managers' has been one
of the most significant aspects of the organization of work and society for well over a century …

Over the past decades there have been persistent radical critiques of management.
Previously the goal was to apply forms of Marxian analysis to the world of management and …

Why Making Sense of Management? Because we believe that management is too important
to be left to management gurus and the recyclers of the received wisdoms distilled in …