Changing Institutions: Critical Management Studies as a Social Movement
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Earlier versions of this chapter were presented at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Hawaii, 2005 and at the European Group for Organization Studies Annual Conference, Bergen, 2006 and seminars at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick during 2007. The work involved as a panel member in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise resulted in the draft being set aside. The invitation to contribute to this volume prompted me to return to it and update it. I would like to thank everyone who has participated in discussing, and providing comments on, the paper and to the editors of this collection for inviting me to contribute to it.
Earlier versions of this chapter were presented at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Hawaii, 2005 and at the European Group for Organization Studies Annual Conference, Bergen, 2006 and seminars at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick during 2007. The work involved as a panel member in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise resulted in the draft being set aside. The invitation to contribute to this volume prompted me to return to it and update it. I would like to thank everyone who has participated in discussing, and providing comments on, the paper and to the editors of this collection for inviting me to contribute to it.
ISBN: 978-1-78190-954-6, eISBN: 978-1-78190-955-3
Publication date: 5 September 2013
Abstract
Purpose
To consider Critical Management Studies as a social movement.
Design/methodology/approach
The purpose is fulfilled by reflecting upon the history of Critical Management Studies by reference to social movement theory, institutional theory and the social theory of hegemony.
Findings
Critical Management Studies is plausibly understood as a social movement.
Originality/value
The chapter offers a fresh perspective on Critical Management Studies by representing it as a movement rather than as a specialist field of knowledge.
Keywords
Citation
Willmott, H. (2013), "Changing Institutions: Critical Management Studies as a Social Movement Earlier versions of this chapter were presented at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Hawaii, 2005 and at the European Group for Organization Studies Annual Conference, Bergen, 2006 and seminars at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick during 2007. The work involved as a panel member in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise resulted in the draft being set aside. The invitation to contribute to this volume prompted me to return to it and update it. I would like to thank everyone who has participated in discussing, and providing comments on, the paper and to the editors of this collection for inviting me to contribute to it.
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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