The Politics of Management Knowledge

This book explores in detail the relations between management knowledge power and practice in a world where globalization highlights rather than obscures the locally specific character of many management recipes.The Politics of Management Knowledge recognizes the political nature of management knowledge as a discourse produced from and reproducing power processes within and between organizations. This theme underpins discussion of the ways in which management ideas and practices `produce' managers of a particular kind - person of enterprise bureaucrat heroic leader and so on. Critical examinations of certain current management theories - lean production excellence entrepreneurship - illuminate the myriad modes in which relations of power intermingle with relations of knowledge.