Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction

by Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott

'A critical-academic-analysis of received wisdom, for serious students of the subject' "- Long Range Planning "Provocative and thoughtful, this book provides a fresh perspective on management that is both broad and critical. The authors argue for the importance of subjecting received wisdoms about management to scrutiny. Such scrutiny needs to address not only the means but also the outcomes of management theory and practices as social and ecological problems proliferate in the global economy.

The book begins by examining why we should question notions of management as a neutral technology' with no moral commitments and consequences, and the role of critical reflection in such questioning. It i

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 1996

About the author

Mats Alvesson är professor vid Lunds universitet och arbetar även vid University of Queensland, Australien, och City University, London. Han forskar och skriver om bland annat organisationskultur, ledarskap, identitet i organisationer och kvalitativ forskning och intresserar sig för fenomenet funktionell dumhet.