Critical Management Studies

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Mot..

This edited collection, first published in 1989, stems from the second annual meeting the British Academy of Management, held at Cardiff Business School in 1988. With the focus on important areas of change affecting management practice and theory – in markets, technology and organizational structure..

When post World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of State-structure to the colonized elite, electoral and civil society politics battle for capture of this post-colonial State structure. Meanwhile, the State is also forced to build its legitimacy in the face of customary governa..

Imagining Business addresses the question of how we visualise organizations and their activities as an important aspect of managerial work, focusing on practices and performances, organizing and ordering, and media and technologies. Moreover, it provides a focal point for the growing collection of s..

This book presents a structured approach to consumer research , showing how a simple framework that embodies the rewards and costs associated with consumer choice can be used to interpret a wide range of consumer behaviours...

This book presents a structured approach to consumer research , showing how a simple framework that embodies the rewards and costs associated with consumer choice can be used to interpret a wide range of consumer behaviours...

This book investigates the portrait of management as value-free ‘technicality’ and challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s survival and development. It explains that individual interests and careers of managers are only part of a wider picture with managers as t..

This book investigates the portrait of management as value-free ‘technicality’ and challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s survival and development. It explains that individual interests and careers of managers are only part of a wider picture with managers as t..

Building on the success of the first edition, Huczynski identifies the essential ingredients of popular management ideas and brings his analysis of gurus into the twenty-first century...

Building on the rapidly developing interest in guru theory and management fashions, this book introduces the idea of scriptive reading to readers of management...

Is marketing coming to an end? The authors explore the present state of marketing scholarship and put forward a variety of visions of marketing in the twenty first century...

Is marketing coming to an end? The authors explore the present state of marketing scholarship and put forward a variety of visions of marketing in the twenty first century...