Critical management studies: some reflections

McLean, Christine; Alcadipani, Rafael

doi:10.1590/s1807-76922008000100006

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“…Critiques of CMS often refer to their paradoxical and somewhat uncomfortable position within business schools and the management field (e.g., Rowlinson & Hassard, 2011), residing within the institutions they critique, while "operating from a safe distance" (Bo ¨hm & Spoelstra, 2004, p. 99). CMS has also been critiqued for closing off space for plural voices (Wray-Bliss, 2004), and for an over-focus on negative critique that leaves out consideration of how fields are "positively" constructed (McLean & Alcadipani, 2008). In short, the CMS project is constituted from within specific epistemic and institutional conditions (Mills & Mills, 2013), which are complementary to yet distinct from the psychologically informed analytical prism of W-O psychology.…”

Section: Critical W-o Psychology and Critical Management Studiesmentioning

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Critical positions: Situating critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology

Islam

Sanderson

2021

Organizational Psychology Review

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This paper argues that critical perspectives have constituted a marginal yet continued presence in work and organizational (W-O) psychology and calls for a reflexive taking stock of these perspectives to ground a critical research agenda. We argue that critical W-O psychology has been positioned between a psychology literature with limited development of critical perspectives, and an emergent critical management literature that has allowed their selective development. This in-between position has allowed critical W-O psychology to persist, albeit in a fragmented form, while limiting its potential for theoretical and applied impact. We use this diagnosis to reflect on how critical perspectives can best develop from within W-O psychology. We end with a call for developing a critical movement unique to the current historical moment, drawing upon without repeating the experiences of its home disciplines, in a future oriented and reflexive psychology research agenda.

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Section: Critical W-o Psychology and Critical Management Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical positions: Situating critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology

Islam

Sanderson

2021

Organizational Psychology Review

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“…For a less refl exively sensitive version, oriented to improving design see Button and Dourish (1996). 7 For an example of a reverse argument, in which ANT has been enrolled to challenge some assumptions associated with Critical Management Studies, see McLean and Alcadipani (2008). 8 http://www.studioincite.com/ 9 http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/ 10 Of course, this 'revelation' is unlikely to be news to anyone who has coauthored an academic paper.…”

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Does STS Mean Business?

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ANTi-History and the entrepreneurial work of privateers

Secord

Corrigan

2017

QROM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theorize the social role of management systems and their political connections using ANTi-History. In so doing, it engages with academic conversations around the writing of business history. The paper focuses on subjective experience in the context of colonial privateers and the vice-admiralty court in the Napoleonic Wars era. Design/methodology/approach ANTi-History is proposed as a theoretical lens to examine the entrepreneurial work of privateers. ANTi-History destabilizes the idea of history as a dominant account of the past and is interested in controversies as to how history is produced. This paper also brings-in Bourdieu’s notion of officialization because historical knowledge is situated in official practices that conceal translations and political strategies that enable actor-networks to act as one. Findings The controls of the vice-admiralty court not only perpetuated the inherited British class system, but also created versions of reality that came to be accepted as recorded history. This shows that the rules and regulations of the court were not neutral accounting activities. The systems constituted the identity of actors and produced privateer history as a modernist knowledge of the past and officialized by western, white, male, elites. Originality/value The “historic turn” in management and organization studies has not been fully realized more than a decade after its introduction. This paper engages with the historic turn by providing a specific exemplar of history as applied to officialized accounts of colonial privateers. Using ANTi-History as a methodological approach also makes a contribution by promoting it beyond a prolonged descriptive phase.

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Critical management studies: some reflections

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Critical positions: Situating critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology

Critical positions: Situating critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology

Does STS Mean Business?

ANTi-History and the entrepreneurial work of privateers

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