Appropriation, Manipulation, and Silence: A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis of the Management Textbook as a Tool of the Corporate Discourse

McLaren, Patricia Genoe; Mills, Jean Helms

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“…We consider it a useful and important contribution to our knowledge of business history in Canada. However, as has been argued elsewhere (Genoe McLaren & Helms Mills ; Genoe McLaren & Mills ; Grant & Mills, ), we view historical accounts as discursive (Jenkins, ) and not simple (or even complex) factual accounts of the past, but rather interpretive accounts shaped by the context in which they were written (White, ). To that end, histories should be viewed as part of the texts to be analyzed.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internal Cohesion in Response to Institutional Plurality: The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada

McLaren

Mills²

2013

Can J Adm Sci

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Addressing the underdeveloped area of the interrelationships between institutional logics, organizational legitimacy, and organizational identity, we undertake a critical hermeneutic analysis of the archives of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) and the context in which the association exists. Through our analysis we show how ASAC's response to the conflicting institutional logics of Canadianism and business schools has been one of internal cohesion, with continuous attempts to create collaborative synergies between the logics, rather than succumbing to internal conflict and fragmentation. Copyright © 2013 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Internal Cohesion in Response to Institutional Plurality: The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada

McLaren

Mills²

2013

Can J Adm Sci

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“…The remaining 13 percent (67 books) were published solely for use in Canada. The textbooks from this collection have been used in a number of studies of management history (Mills and Helms Hatfield, 1998;Dye et al, 2005;Grant and Mills, 2006;Genoe McLaren and Helms Mills, 2008;. Of the 507 textbooks a search for references to Peter F. Drucker was conducted in those that were published since 1940 (following the publication of Drucker's first book in English, "The end of economic man").…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Disseminating Drucker

McLaren

Mills

Durepos

2009

Journal of Management History

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to understand how Drucker's work has been disseminated through the North American management textbook since 1940, and what this tells people about the wider issue of the social construction and dissemination of management knowledge. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is a critical hermeneutic analysis of the presence and use of Drucker in over 500 management textbooks and the socio-political context in which both Drucker's work and North American textbooks were written. Findings -Paradoxically, while Drucker's work was found to be the most-referenced of any management writer in the textbooks studied, his theories -apart from discussions of "Management by objectives" and the "Knowledge economy" -were rarely discussed. It is argued that the referencing of Drucker served more to legitimize selected points made by textbook authors than to discuss and build on Drucker's work. Explanation of the paradox is explored through the socio-political contexts in which Drucker was writing, strongly suggesting that the North American textbook has developed a dominant scientivistic trope that construct business "knowledge" through the narrow lens of behavioural science. Originality/value -While much writing can be found on the influence of Drucker on the business world and his status as a management guru, little is found on Drucker's body of work in the management textbook, which plays a key role in management education in North American business schools. The paper builds on recent management research on the role of socio-political context in the shaping of management theory and knowledge, and makes a new contribution to one's understanding of the shaping and contours of management knowledge.

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“…There is a growing body of research examining how MOS textbooks construct and reproduce particular conceptions of managerialist ideology (e.g., Grant & Mills, 2006;McLaren & Mills, 2010;Mir, 2003). Much of the literature has examined how particular schools of thought are presented and/or excluded (e.g., Stambaugh & Trank, 2010), how historical developments and theorists in MOS are interpreted (Durepos et al, 2012;Dye, Mills, & Weatherbee, 2005;Weatherbee & Durepos, 2010), and how certain political events and eras are filtered (Foster, Mills, & Weatherbee, 2012;Grant & Mills, 2006;McLaren & Mills, 2010).…”

Section: The Absent Workermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much of the literature has examined how particular schools of thought are presented and/or excluded (e.g., Stambaugh & Trank, 2010), how historical developments and theorists in MOS are interpreted (Durepos et al, 2012;Dye, Mills, & Weatherbee, 2005;Weatherbee & Durepos, 2010), and how certain political events and eras are filtered (Foster, Mills, & Weatherbee, 2012;Grant & Mills, 2006;McLaren & Mills, 2010). In this literature, however, the worker in organizations is rarely a subject for critical examination.…”

Section: The Absent Workermentioning

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Construction Work: Evolving Discourses of the "Worker" in Management Textbooks, 1920s to the First Decade of the 21st

Foster¹,

Mills²

2013

Journal of Workplace Rights

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The purpose of this article is to explore and critically evaluate how the concept of "worker" is produced in management textbooks. In other words, we seek to reveal hitherto underanalyzed discourses regarding workers and the employment relationship. Further, we seek to track the evolution of these discourses over time, linking the evolving construction of the worker to shifts in the political, economic, and social context in which the textbooks were created. Adopting the theory and method of critical discourse analysis, our analysis will reveal the underlying power relations at play within the text, as well as their consequences for education in management and organization studies (MOS).

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Appropriation, Manipulation, and Silence: A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis of the Management Textbook as a Tool of the Corporate Discourse

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Internal Cohesion in Response to Institutional Plurality: The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada

Internal Cohesion in Response to Institutional Plurality: The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada

Disseminating Drucker

Construction Work: Evolving Discourses of the "Worker" in Management Textbooks, 1920s to the First Decade of the 21st

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