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Critical performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies

Author

Summary, in English

We argue that critical management studies (CMS) should be conceptualized as a profoundly performative project. The central task of CMS should be to actively and pragmatically intervene in specific debates about management and encourage progressive forms of management. This involves CMS becoming affirmative, caring, pragmatic, potential focused, and normative. To do this, we suggest a range of tactics including affirming ambiguity, working with mysteries, applied communicative action, exploring heterotopias and engaging micro-emancipations.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

537-560

Publication/Series

Human Relations

Volume

62

Issue

4

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • public engagement
  • critical management studies
  • pragmatism
  • research
  • methods

Conference name

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2007

Conference date

2007-08-03 - 2007-08-08

Conference place

Philadelphia, United States

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0018-7267
  • ISSN: 1741-282X