Critical Management Studies
Posted by Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on September 4, 2014
Doris Ruth Eikhof, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, shares some earlier* thoughts on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) In the past two years UK universities have frantically prepared their submissions to the sector-wide assessment of their research prowess and output, the Research Excellence Framework, or REF. They have evaluated research outputs, written […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Action Research, Bureaucracy, Business School, Critical Management Studies, Impact, Ivory Tower, Knowledge, Leo Tolstoj, Management, Management Education, Max Weber, Organisation Studies, Policy Making, Practitioner Research, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Public Sector, REF, Research Excellence Framework, Research Outputs, Science as a Vocation, Social Science, Steve Jobs, University Management, University Politics
Posted by Marton Racz in School of Business Blog on August 13, 2014
Marton Racz and Thomas Swann, Graduate Teaching Assistants at the School, explain why they are organising a PhD conference on Critical Management Studies (CMS) It is just over three years since Martin Parker and Robyn Thomas published their influential description of the concerns which a critical academic journal should have. Parker and Thomas – renowned […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alvesson and Wilmott, Analogy, Application, Childcare, Conference, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Evolution, Foucault, Gender, Institutionalisation, Laclau, Management, Management Education, Martin Parker, Metaphor, Organisation, Organization, PhD, PhD Conference, Postcolonial Theory, Publishing, Robyn Thomas, Slowing Down
Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on July 9, 2014
Professor Jo Brewis, Deputy Head of the School, discusses the under-acknowledged practical and interpersonal consequences of the methodological decisions researchers make The critical tradition of management scholarship with which Leicester’s name has become synonymous has been applied to a wide variety of organisational settings, it has employed numerous research methods and it has drawn on […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Caricature, Critical Management Studies, Ethics, Friends, Friendship, Jo Brewis, Methodology, Qualitative Research, Representation, Research, Research Ethics, Research Methodology, Research Methods, Research with Friends, Stereotyping, Trust |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on June 25, 2014
This time next year, the School will be preparing to welcome over 500 delegates to the 9th International Conference in Critical Management Studies. Professor Martin Parker explains what the conference will be about and why it will be so important. How can a School of Management have the cheek to be ‘critical’ of management? Schools […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9th CMS Conference, Alternative Organisation, Alternatives, Anarchism, Austerity, Communism, Critical Management Studies, Ecology, Feminism, Ideology, IMF, Management, Managerialism, Taylorism, World Bank
Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014
Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley, recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the four of us published a piece examining the not very well concealed relationship between the profit margins enjoyed by large commercial publishers and the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academic Freedom, Altmetric, Blogging, Censorship, Critical Management Studies, Finch Report, Informa, Martin Parker, Open Access Publishing, Publishing, Social Science, Tax Avoidance, Taylor & Francis |
Posted by Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on April 23, 2014
In the run up to Saint George’s Day, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, underlines why the nature of ‘Englishness’ should matter to scholars and practitioners of management I’m not usually one for name-dropping but in 2007 I met Billy Bragg at a seminar on Englishness in Contemporary Britain. This was a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Billy Bragg, britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, britishness, Citizenship, Colonialism, Critical Management Studies, Culture, england, englishness, Imperialism, Jeremy Paxman, local government, Management, Multiculturalism, National Health Service, National Trust, Nationalism, Post-colonialism, Roger Scruton, Simon Heffer, Social Class, Social Justice
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on April 9, 2014
Voltaire once wrote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”. Professor of Organisation and Culture Martin Parker recently found out precisely what he meant. I had fundamental differences of opinion with the managers of the place I used to work. After having left “University Ltd.”, I decided to outline […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academic Freedom, Censorship, Critical Management Studies, Gagging Clause, Higher Education, Informa, Libel, Litigation, Management, Managerialism, Routledge, Social Science, Taylor and Francis, University Management, University Politics
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on March 21, 2014
Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, outlines the motivation behind an experiment-in-abstinence undertaken by some of her freshman tutees. As a relative newcomer to the School, I’ve spent much of the past year thinking about what it means to teach ‘Critical Management Studies’ (CMS). Across the modules I […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Buy Nothing Day, Critical Management Studies, Facebook, Instagram, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Market Behaviour, Social Media, Social Media Free Day, Student Centred Learning, Tutorials, Twitter, Undergraduate
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on February 26, 2014
The School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE) celebrated its 10 year anniversary towards the end of last year by hosting a 3 day conference. One of the highlights of the events was a round table discussion on the Nature and Purpose of the Corporation, a video-recording of which is available to watch here. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Agency Theory, Alternative Organisation, Business Ethics, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Corporate Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Critical Management Studies, Jeroen Veldman, Legal Theory, Martin Parker, Responsibility of Intellectuals, Sam Mansell, Shareholder Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Stephen Dunne
Posted by in School of Business Blog on February 19, 2014
Neil Lancastle, one of the School’s current PhD students, brings his experience of curricular reform in economics to bear upon the promises (and problems) of being “critical” in a School of Management. Early in my PhD studies I was fortunate enough to read the sort of economic work which can now rightly claim to have […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Business Ethics, Code of Ethics, Critical Management Studies, Critique, CSEP, Economic Crisis, Economic Education, Economics, Economics Pedagogy, Ethics, Financial Crisis, German Pluralist Economics Network, Heterodox, Heterodox Economics, Higher Education, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Managment Ethics, Martin Parker, Noam Chomsky, PEPS-Economie, Post-Crash Economics Society, REF, Responsibility of Intellectuals, Rethinking Economics, SOAS, Social Science, Stephen Dunne, Valerie Fournier
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