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.

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Contents: Introduction: Intersections of Critical Management Research and Practice: A Multi-Domain Perspective Maxim Voronov, Julie Wolfram Cox, Tony LeTrent-Jones and David Weir PART I: CRITICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN ACTION: CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN THE GENERATION AND TRANSLATION OF ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE 1. Taking the Employee’s Perspective: Negotiating Critical Research in an Organization in Conflict Amanda Roan, Rebecca Loudoun and George Lafferty 2. The Phantom Menace: Conducting Practitioner-Informed Research Without Losing Academic Liberties Alexander Styhre 3. Emancipatory Practice and Information Systems Implementation: An Action Research Project in an NHS Acute Trust Teresa Waring 4. Footless and Fancy Free? On Some Means to Move Beyond the Self-induced and Institutional Constraints of CMS Neil Clarke 5. Practical Pushing: Creating Discursive Space in Organizational Narratives Joyce K. Fletcher, Lotte Bailyn and Stacy Blake Beard 6. Discourse and Policy in the Learning and Skills Sector Ron Kerr and Steve Fox PART II: CRITICAL TEACHING AND LEARNING: RESPONSIVENESS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 7. Muckraking Novels: The Search for Another Paradigm Stephen Sloane 8. Journeys into Critical Thinking: Intersecting Foucault into the Organizational Practice Debate Daniel King 9. Extending the Repertoire of Research Approaches in a Professional Doctoral Program: The Place and Shape of a Critical Perspective Jan Priest and Erica Hallebone 10. Supervising Action Research: A Space for Critical Influence on Organizational Practice Marion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh 11. Paradoxes of Academic Practice: Managerialist Techniques in Critical Pedagogy Torkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg 12. Experiences of Living and Doing Critical Management Education in Canadian Business Schools Gina Grandy and Jane Gibbon PART III: CRITICAL IDENTITIES: THE CRITICAL TURN IN EVERYDAY DOMAINS OF PRACTICE 13. Caught in ‘No-Man’s Land’? Consultancy and Critique Brendon Harvey 14. ‘I Didn’t Have the Balls for It’: How a ‘Feminine’ Discourse of Consulting Opens a Critical Space Sheila Marsh 15. Silences and Disappearing Acts: The Politics of Gendering Organizational Practice Margaret L. Page 16. The Trouble with the Glass Ceiling: Critical Reflections on a Famous Concept Yvonne Benschop and Margo Brouns 17. Racial Inequality in the Workplace: How Critical Management Studies Can Inform Current Approaches Brenda Johnson 18. Critical Social Entrepreneurship – An Alternative Discourse Analysis James Latham, Robert Jones and Michela Betta 19. Power, Control and the Protean Career: A Critical Perspective on Multinational Organizations’ Permanent International Assignees Marian Crowley-Henry and David Weir Index