Sociology and Management Education

4 Privileging critiqueSociology and its metamorphosis into critical management studies

DOI: 10.4324/9781003257813-4

Introduction: disciplinary/institutional traffic and its after-effects

This chapter presents a detailed discussion of critical management studies (CMS). It outlines the context of its emergence and assesses its impact on the contemporary practices of management education and research. CMS has emerged as a fundamental critique of conventional management studies and carries with it an aura of novelty and radicalism. As an emerging field, it is increasingly attracting management academics in the English-speaking world. The chapter traces the theoretical, ideological, and methodological genealogies of CMS amidst an array of political ...