Hodgson and Carter present a volume that contributes to the ongoing debate in Knowledge Management. They develop themes explored in Roy Jacques' influential text, Manufacturing the Employee, as a starting point the authors consider the status of contemporary management knowledge.

Contents: Critical approaches to the conceptualization of management knowledge: reconsidering Jacques, Chris Carter and Damian E. Hodgson; Historical perspectives in organization studies: factual, narrative, and archaeo-genealogical, Michael Rowlinson; Deconstructing the employee: a critique of the gendered American dream, David Crowther and Anne-Marie Greene; Feminist organizational analysis and the business textbook, Albert J. Mills; Ending the velvet revolution: managing the re-education of Vaclav Havel, Tony Tinker; Problematizing discourse analysis: can we talk about management knowledge?, Kirstie Ball and Damian E. Hodgson; Explanatory critique, capitalism and feasible alternatives: a realist assessment of Jacques' 'Manufacturing the Employee', Robert Willmott; Japan as institutional counterfactual: knowledge, learning and power, Stewart Clegg, Tim Ray and Chris Carter; 'He came, he saw, he re-engineered': new managerialism and the legitimation of modern management practice, Kirstie Ball and Chris Carter; 'Plus ça change...' : enforced change and its influence on employees' assumptions, Julian Randall; Contesting critical strategies for the new millennium: a conversation with Roy Jacques, Campbell Jones, Shane Grice and Roy Jacques; Index.