Critical management studies: A critical review

A Spicer, M Alvesson - Journal of Management Studies, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we review the development of critical management studies, point at problems
and explore possible developments. We begin by tracing out two previous waves of critical …

CSR logics in developing countries: Translation, adaptation and stalled development

D Jamali, C Karam, J Yin, V Soundararajan - Journal of World Business, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we advance an analytic framework to help better trace the meaning and
practice of CSR in developing countries, which draws from an institutional logics approach …

A postcolonial and anti-colonial reading of 'African' leadership and management in organization studies: tensions, contradictions and possibilities

SM Nkomo - Organization, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reports on a postcolonial and anti-colonial reading of representations of
'African'leadership and management in organization studies. The resulting analysis …

Deepening, broadening and re-asserting a postcolonial interrogative space in organization studies

G Jack, R Westwood, N Srinivas, Z Sardar - Organization, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
A postcolonial interrogative space has finally, and we believe belatedly, emerged in
management and organization studies (MOS). Since the term 'postcolonial'began to appear …

Reflections on the continuing denial of the centrality of “race” in management and organization studies

SM Nkomo - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this article is to share reflections about the progress toward the
inclusion of race as a core analytical concept in MOS since the article. The emperor has no …

When corporations cause harm: A critical view of corporate social irresponsibility and corporate crimes

R Alcadipani, CR de Oliveira Medeiros - Journal of Business Ethics, 2020 - Springer
Corporations perform actions that can inflict harm with different levels of intensity, from death
to material loss, to both companies' internal and external stakeholders. Research has …

Detecting and remediating modern slavery in supply chains: a targeted audit approach

AV Benstead, LC Hendry… - Production Planning & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates modern slavery detection and remediation. Action research has
been conducted in the textiles and fashion industry, with the primary engagement involving …

A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management

AL Cunliffe - 2021 - torrossa.com
The dangerous man [sic] is the one who has only one theory, because then he'll fight to the
death for it.(Francis Crick, Molecular Biologist 1) Most management books cover topics such …

Unsettling West-centrism in the study of professional service firms

M Boussebaa - Human Relations, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the last two decades, research on professional service firms has developed into an
important subfield of management studies. In this article, I offer a postcolonial critique of this …

Institutional voids and organization studies: Towards an epistemological rupture

J Bothello, RS Nason, G Schnyder - Organization Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this essay, we critique the usage of the term 'institutional void'to characterize non-Western
contexts in organizational studies. We explore how 'conceptual stretching'of institutional …