An introduction to critical management research
Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008Description: xvi, 232 pISBN: 9781412901864; 1412901863; 9781412901871 (pbk.); 1412901871 (pbk.)Subject(s): Management | Critical thinkingDDC classification: 658.0072 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access onlineItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes Bibliography & Index.
Critical theory: an introduction --
Organisational paradigms and management research --
American pragmatism --
Postmodernism --
Deconstructionism --
Poststructuralist feminism --
Queer theory --
Critical perspectives on quantitative research --
Critical perspectives on qualitative research --
Ethics and reflexivity concluding reflections.
Why have certain theories shaped management research? Where do research theory and practice meet, if at all?
To ask these questions is to think critically about management research. Mihaela L Kelemen and Nick Rumens explore the fundamentals of critical management theory and their influences on management research, and in doing so offer the student an illuminating introduction to what is often a disparate and complex array of issues.
10 expressive chapters examine theoretical foundations, including those most often sidelined in mainstream management theory; from postmodernism and deconstruction to American pragmatism, along with methodological choices and the intellectual issues each of these presents. Also provided is a timely consideration to the consequences and ethical concerns now inherent to any research issue.
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