Reclaiming critique: a historical-materialist intervention in the crisis of Critical Management Studies Purpose. Critical Management Studies (CMS) has entered a phase of stagnation in which reflexive critique risks collapsing into academic self-referentiality and losing sight of material inequalities. T...

Fadillah MI, Suryadi E, and Gunawan (2026) Reclaiming critique: a historical-materialist intervention in the crisis of Critical Management Studies. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. [restricted access]

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The end of alternative organising (just as we were getting to know it)? A conjunctural analysis of the prefiguration terrain The last fifteen years have seen a rise in interest in alternative organising within CMS. Although this work covers a diverse world of organisational forms, this academic interest is commonly conne...

Interesting article about research on alternative organizing within Critical Management Studies and recent problematizations of 'prefigurative organizing' within the sphere of radical politics and social movements.

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Shaping for Mediocrity from Zer0 Books In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what wa...

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‘Shaping for Mediocrity’ was published a year ago. Among other things, we are discussing the authoritarian turn in universities, financial issues, academic freedom and, last but not least, the expulsion of #CriticalManagementStudies at a Business School.

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NEW Challenging Colonizing Logics within Management Research: Towards a Broader View of #Management
Donna Ladkin ‪@unibirmingham.bsky.social‬

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Fascism as a management philosophy This paper analyses the advent of fascism as a management philosophy, and its growing influence in the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary business prac

'fascism has seen a rebirth in management ideology in recent years'

Dirk Matten on the advent of fascism as a management philosophy and business practice.

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14th International Critical Management Studies Conference.

Here we go.

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Just arrived in Manchester for the 14th International Critical Management Studies conference. My last in-person attendance dates back to 2019. Between then and now, I realized that it is possible to get sacked for the 'questioning of mainstream management thinking'.

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How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices Repurposing management for the public good involves realizing alternative ideas to serve societal interests. Humanistic management is centred on such ideas as human dignity and well-being. Realizatio...

'Realizing humanistic management ideas, such as dignity and well-being, bears the opportunity of realizing a form of management practice substantially better for human beings than our currently dominant practices.'

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The Competitive (Dis)Advantages of European Business Schools Although the US business school model has come to dominate the business school landscape, European schools have developed their own identities, styles…

Echoes of the past:

'An example of an innovatory learning style is Professor Gibson Burrell’s attempt to develop a ‘‘critical’’ management school at the University of Leicester in the UK' (Antunes/Thomas, 2007)

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Article by Jennifer Manning: A performative critical management studies.

'Business schools need to start questioning the relationship between neoliberalism and our global epoch of crisis and uncertainty, and as management educators we must consider how we might inform this relationship.' (Jennifer Manning)

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A recording of the seminar is now available. We talked about academic freedom, of what does it feel like to being made redundant, accountability, financial engineering and other pressuring issues at universities.

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Shaping for Mediocrity | University of Essex

Wed 5 Mar, 12.00–1.30 pm, Online

Hosted by the Centre for Commons Organising Values Equalities and Resilience, @davidharvie.bsky.social, Simon Lilley and I will discuss our book about the purge of Critical Management Studies at Leicester.

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Tough cookies in UK universities Book review of   Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and friends. Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancel...

Tough cookies in UK universities - Yiannis Gabriel reviews 'Shaping for Mediocrity' 👇

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The Baltic Sessions-Resisting Mediocrity, Remaking the University Let's gather at Live Theatre, Studio Space (3rd floor) to shake things up, challenge the norm, and transform the university experience!

Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 GMT

In conversation with Alan McKinley (Newcastle University), my former colleagues Simon Lilley (University of Lincoln) and Geoff Lightfoot talk about 'Shaping for Mediocrity'. 👇

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Organization manifesto - Patrizia Zanoni, Marcos Barros, Ghazal Zulfiqar, 2024 The Organization Manifesto celebrates 30 years of Organization as a vital force in critical management and organization studies. It reaffirms the journal’s comm...

'The Organization Manifesto celebrates 30 years of Organization as a vital force in critical management and organization studies.' 👏👇

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The improprietorial pentagram Published in Consumption Markets & Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The improprietorial pentagram - a review of our book 'Shaping for Mediocrity' (www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...) by Stephen Dunne:

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Dialogues in Critical Management Studies <div><p><i>Critical Management Studies</i> (CMS) is an evolving collection of radical challenges to mainstream management theory. At the heart of CMS is an enduring skepticism concerning the social and ecological sustainability of prevailing ideas and for

Thanks Osbert. I take a wee bit of pride in originating the Dialogues in #CriticalManagementStudies series, back in 2011
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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry | Kozminski University Journals

The journal Tamara is back and its editors invite contributions which 'challenge conventional perspectives, offer new theoretical insights, and provide empirical studies that critique the contemporary organizational forms'.

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