Critical Management Studies at Work: Negotiating Tensions between Theory and Practice

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 ranslate 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.

Edited by Julie Wolfram Cox, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia, Tony G. LeTrent-Jones, Independent Consultant and Educator, US, Maxim Voronov, Professor of Organization Studies and Sustainability, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and David Weir, Fourth Paradigm Consulting, UK