Critical Management Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Expanding Disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing

   Edited by Douglas Brownlie, Paul Hewer, Mark Tadajewski

   Series: Key Issues in Marketing Management

   Expanding disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing provides an introduction to the major perspectives in critical marketing studies. It contains theoretical reflections on critical marketing whilst building on the key concepts and ideas, which are vital to the subject, through...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies

   A Theory of Sociotechnical Change

   By Ulrich Dolata

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change....

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. On Being At Work

   The Social Construction of the Employee

   By Nancy Harding

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Transnational Trade Unionism

   Building Union Power

   Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization,...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

   By Damian Grimshaw

   Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

   With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Public-Private Partnerships in the USA

   Lessons to be Learned for the United Kingdom

   By Tony Wall

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals. This book compares and contrasts PPP research...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

   Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Organizations and Working Time Standards

   A Comparison of Negotiations in Europe

   By Jens Thoemmes

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Management in Africa

   Macro and Micro Perspectives

   Edited by Terri Lituchy, Betty Jane Punnett, Bill Buenar Puplampu

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa. It focuses on the work of leading scholars of management in and around Africa and the African Context, exploring whether we can at this point refer to ‘...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Marketing Matrix

    How the Corporation Gets Its Power – And How We Can Reclaim It

    By Gerard Hastings

    In the hands of the corporate sector, marketing has turned us into spoilt, consumption-obsessed children who are simultaneously wrecking our bodies, psyches and planet. Given the fiduciary duties of the corporation, notions like consumer sovereignty, customer service and relationship building are...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge