On the idea of emancipation in management and organization studies

Article Abstract:

The article reconceptualizes the meaning of emancipation in management and organization studies and develops an approach that (a) takes into account recent criticism of its "totalizing" tendencies raised by poststructuralists and (b) makes it more sensitive to the particularities of - and thereby more relevant for - management studies. The first part of the article reviews and discusses tendencies in critical theory toward negativism, essentialism, and intellectualism. The second part reformulates the grand enterprise of emancipation into a more modest project, scaled down in terms of scope and ambition. The third part discusses ways of advancing this project in terms of listening, writing, and reading. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Critical theory, Frankfurt school of sociology

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The hype and hope of interdisciplinary management studies

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There has been increased interest in interdisciplinary research in management during the past 10 years. The promotion of interdisciplinarity within schools of management and research funding agenies has been widespread and managment academics have to respond to changing demands. This has led to a form of interdisciplinarity coming from selective borrowing of concepts from other disciplines without integration on the one hand, and the use of such borrowings as a challenge to the root discipline on the other. The use of interdisciplinary research comes from a need to make academic knowledge more practical.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Management Science, Interdisciplinary research

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Managing change across boundaries: boundary-shaking practices

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A study examining the skills and practices used by boundary-shakers for managing changes like post-merger integration, across-business synergies and developing higher integration in organization structures is presented.

United Kingdom, Management Development, Methods, Management, Executive ability

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