Describes a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Management Studies. This book introduces seventeen readings which reflect the developments, and shows CMS' importance. As an introduction to CMS, it is useful to students taking courses requiring familiarity with the CMS literature.

1. Introduction ; SECTION I: ANTICIPATING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ; 2. Management Ideology ; 3. The Servants of Power ; 4. Critical Issues in Organizations ; 5. The Power Elite ; SECTION II: STUDYING MANAGEMENT CRITICALLY ; 6. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Approaches to Organization Studies ; 7. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management ; 8. The Politics of Organizational Analysis ; SECTION III: CRITICAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT ; 9. Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism ; 10. Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams ; 11. The Managing of the (Third) World ; 12. The Making of the Corporate Acolyte: Some Thoughts on Charismatic Leadership and the Reality of Organizational Commitment ; 13. Sexuality at Work ; 14. Performance Appraisal and the Emergence of Management ; 15. Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal ; SECTION IV: ASSESSING CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES ; 17. Writing Critical Management Studies ; 18. Brands, Boundaries, and Bandwagons: A Critical Reflection on Critical Management Studies ; 19. Abstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory

17 key readings show the development and vibrancy of Critical Management Studies Each reading and its significance is discussed Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott's introduction reflects more broadly on the nature of Critical Management Studies

Christopher Grey is a Reader in Organization Theory at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Essential Readings in Management Learning (with Elena Antonacopoulou, Sage, 2003), Editor-in-chief of Management Learning, European Co-editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Critical Journal of International Business, Philosophy of Management, and Organization. Hugh Willmott is Diageo Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of Critical Management Studies (Sage, 1992), and Studying Management Critically (Sage, 2003) - both with Mats Alvesson, and co-author with Mats Alvesson of Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1996). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.

17 key readings show the development and vibrancy of Critical Management Studies Each reading and its significance is discussed Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott's introduction reflects more broadly on the nature of Critical Management Studies