ABSTRACT

The scholarly field of Critical Management Studies (CMS) is in a state of flux. Against a backdrop of dramatic global shifts, CMS scholarship has lately taken a number of new and exciting directions and, at times, challenged older critical voices. Novel theoretical frameworks and diverse research interests mark the CMS field as never before. Interrogating conventional critiques of management and arguing for fresh approaches, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies captures this intellectual ferment and new spirit of inquiry within CMS, and showcases the pluralistic generation of CMS scholars that has emerged in recent years.

Setting the scene for a crucial period for the discipline, this insightful volume covers new ground and essential areas grouped under the following themes:

  • Critique and its (dis-)contents
  • Difference, otherness, marginality
  • Knowledge at the crossroads
  • History and discourse
  • Global predicaments.

Drawing on the expertise of an international team of contributing scholars, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies is a rich resource and the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of management and organization.

part |41 pages

Introduction

chapter |39 pages

Debating knowledge

Rethinking Critical Management Studies in a changing world

part |48 pages

Critique and its (dis-)contents

part |119 pages

Knowledge at the crossroads

chapter |39 pages

Toward decolonizing modern Western structures of knowledge

A postcolonial interrogation of (Critical) Management Studies

chapter |16 pages

Rethinking market-ing orientation

A critical perspective from an emerging economy

chapter |15 pages

Social movements and organizations through a Critical Management Studies lens

Metaphor, mechanism, mobilization or more?

chapter |15 pages

Teaching management critically

Classroom practices under rival paradigms

part |64 pages

History and discourse

chapter |17 pages

Let them eat ethics

Hiding behind corporate social responsibility in the age of financialization

chapter |16 pages

Towards a genealogy of humanitarianism

Revealing (neo-)colonialism in organizational practice

part |68 pages

Global predicaments

chapter |14 pages

The ‘iron' in the iron cage

Retheorizing the multinational corporation as a colonial space

chapter |11 pages

“We're not talking to people, we're talking to a nation”

Crossing borders in transnational customer service work

chapter |14 pages

Microfinance

A neoliberal instrument or a site of the ‘other's’ resistance and contestation?

chapter |14 pages

Exceptional opportunities

Hierarchies of race and nation in the United States Peace Corps recruitment materials