... in evaluation and rewards, Japanese firms may be less ethnocentric than the global norm. skilled migration immigration white-collar workers employment human capital assimilation acculturation inequality education ethnocentrism Japan management studies Due to its below-replacement birthrate...

... religious studies speculative fiction climate change world futures scenario planning prediction parapsychology precognition computer history quantum mechanics corporate spirituality chaos theory management studies In the early nineteenth century, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre...

...This book examines the impact of the knowledge economy on the knowledge production of management studies. It highlights the important parts of theorizing that have emerged within the strategy and organization fields to accommodate those tendencies thought of as characterising the knowledge economy...

... that makes up ‘business and management studies’, it is shown that discipline is far from disciplined. As a practice it is best characterized as promiscuous and eclectic. Yet the clarion call of discipline remains. In a final twist, this chapter argues it is important to retain this legacy so that its...

... to management studies. Focusing on James’s first major work, Principles of Psychology (1890), the chapter traces his influence on three major streams of social research––process philosophy, phenomenology, and functionalism––and follows these streams as they flowed into research on organizations...

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... and social theory, for example in the field of ‘critical management studies’. It sketches the historical and intellectual origins of Frankfurt School critical theory, from Marx to Lukács and Freud, as well as outlining its key analytical approaches. This leads to an exploration of the Frankfurt analysis...

...This article aims to provide an overview of the core ideas associated with ‘critical realism’ (CR) as a distinctive philosophy of social science and their implications for critical management studies (CMS). Realizing this objective requires a focus on CMS as a broad-ranging intellectual movement...

...Given the current strength of media concern with climate change, it is perhaps surprising that this issue has remained somewhat tangential to writers within critical and mainstream management studies. This article considers why greater attention must be paid to the natural environment as well...

...This article aims to give an overview of critical management studies (CMS) and authors' engagement with ethics. Parker, in the introduction to the edited collection Ethics and Organizations, gives a number of reasons for what he suggests is a rise in interest in the issue of ethics...

... to the status quo which are used to deflect employees from imagining an alternative order. 502 Hierarchy is at the center of the organizational status quo. Its many negative social consequences should make it a prime focus for critical management studies. Critical ethnography has an important part to play...

...The enormous increase in what has come to be known as critical management studies has clearly been demonstrated. Going from theoretical innovations through to empirical and historical inquiries, the resultant research has transformed our understanding of many aspects of management and its...

... community in which critical management studies might act as a ‘catalytic integrator’. References Adler, P., and Heckscher, C. (eds.) ( 2006 ). The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy . Oxford: Oxford University Press...

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..., the strategic change tradition, and the critical management studies tradition. It posits that none of the four schools of thought take measures to empirically specify the notion of change, but rather advance their arguments from the terrain of a metaphysical stance. It indicates that the stance they adopt has...

... and learning by observation. The interdisciplinary conceptualization developed in this chapter integrates perspectives from economic geography and management studies. Despite—or, perhaps, thanks to—their nature as temporary markets, trade shows have emerged as important nodes in the global...

... these concepts and their implications for the study of paradox within organizations. The chapter further seeks to contrast current notions of paradox and pluralism, and expand understanding of these phenomena by looking at them through two alternate theoretical prisms, namely Critical Management Studies (CMS...

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...This chapter uses a critical theory perspective to consider previous work in positive organizational scholarship (POS). Questions raised by the critical management studies (CMS) concepts of performativity, denaturalization, and reflexivity highlight areas in which POS could benefit from a more...

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