The Foundations of Management Knowledge

This volume brings together a group of leading academics from Europe, North America and Australasia to address a question of considerable contemporary concern: the nature and management of knowledge in relation to rapidly changing arenas of theory and practice. The contributors reframe management as a dynamic, creative and versatile field of knowledge that is both multidisciplinary and multi-contextual. The book provides a structured and informed set of readings for management educators as well as students and academics in the fields of critical management, organisational behaviour, human resource management and management development.

CONTENTS 1. Contemporary management knowledge: The Parameters of debate. Paul Jeffcut, Queen's University, Belfastt 2. The coming crisis of western management education. Alan Thomas, Manchester Business School 3. Management as a technical practice: Professionalization or responsibilization? Christopher Grey, University of Cambridge, UK. 4. American business school education and the revolution in interactive information technology. Robert Locke, University of Hawaii, USA. 5. UK management skills and the future of management education. Ewart Keep, University of Warwick, UK. 6. Situated learning theory and underpinning disputes in management learning. Steve Fox, University of Lancaster, UK. 7. Making learning critical: Identity, emotion and power in management development. Hugh Wilmott, University of Lancaster, UK. 8. Management learning as a critical process: The practice of storying. David Sims, Brunel University, UK. 9. The shaping of dominant modes of thought: Rediscovering the foundations of management knowledge. Robert Chia, University of Exeter, UK. 10. Hydridization and dis-identification: Fatal modernaization stratagies in organizations. Willem Koot, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 11. The politics and ethics of knowledge construction in corporations: Dialogic interaction and self other relations. Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado, USA and Tanni Haas, City University of New York, USA. 12. Gender citizenship in organizations. Silvia Gheradi, University of Trento, Italy. 13. Laying new foundations: Manafacturing management knowledge in post-industrial knowledge economy. Roy Jacques, Calafornia School of Professional Psychology, USA