1st Edition

Management Theory A Critical and Reflexive Reading

By Nanette Monin Copyright 2004
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Narrative approaches to organisation and management studies are very much in vogue. Offering a new challenge to management scholarship, Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. In doing so, it encourages readers to recognise the stories that management theories tell, and more... Read more
Introduction 1. Approaches to Text Analysis in Management 2. A Review of Literary Critical Theory 3. Methodology and Exploratory Reading 4. Method 5. Scriptive Readings 6. Discussion Conclusions

Biography

Nanette Monin is lecturer in management at Massey University, New Zealand.

'An academically rigorous and clearly described post-modern method of text analysis that draws on a wide range of literary theory.' - European Foundation for Management Development