1st Edition

Organizational Studies Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    2150 Pages
    by Routledge

    Edited by ten academics at the University of Warwick Business School, this collection represents some of the best work within organization studies:
    Volume 1: Modes of Management seeks to invert conventional approaches to managing
    Volume 2: Objectivity and Others focuses upon issues of epistemology
    Volume 3: Selves and Subjects investigates areas hidden from orthodox organization studies
    Volume 4: Evil Empires? Looks at the damaging effects of large organizations upon the lives of people.
    Together, the collection represents around eighty articles, drawn from the social sciences generally as well as from organization studies specifically. There is a thorough index to assist the reader in navigation of the material.

    Volume I: Modes of Management
    Part 1: What is management?
    Part 2: What is Decision Making? - Rationality, Power and Control
    Volume II: Objectivity and its Other
    Part 1: The Voice of Neo-Positivism and its Challengers
    Part 2: Excursions in Epistemology
    Part 3: Time and Space in the Modern/Postmodern World
    Part 4: Anti-Positivist Methods
    Part 5: Feminist Critiques
    Volume III: Selves and Subjects
    Part 1: The Governable Person
    Part 2: Notions of the Subject
    Part 3: Surveillance
    Part 4: Survival Practices
    Volume IV: Evil Empires
    Part 1: Organizations, Power and Rationality
    Part 2: Organization Theory: Servants of Power
    Part 3: The Power of Technology/ The Technology of Power
    Part 4: Organizations in Power
    Part 5: Organizations, Power and Resistance
    'This collection presents the reader with a valuable sample of some of the most interesting critical material published over the last forty years....This collection is eclectic and varied, presenting a rich and colourful array of critical research in organization studies and beyond'. Ephemera Reviews