[PDF] Top 20 When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies

... that critical researchers are able to enter into dialogue with the managing director of a large enterprise employing exploitative contracts and ‘provide spaces in which managers are “nudged” gently to reflect upon ... See full document

... Organization Studies has recently been captured by what is variously described as a cultural, linguistic, poststructural or postmodern turn (Westwood & Clegg 2003a) all of which I refer to simply using the ... See full document

... Clinical management studies, by contrast, does not claim for itself a concept of critique based on this or that political ...clinical management studies seeks neither to produce modes of ... See full document

... Austin suggests that one particularly exemplary performative utterance is the naming of a ship. Spicer et al.’s opening pronouncement: “We may be witnessing the appearance of a third wave of Critical ... See full document

... of performativity that attempts to change, say, managers without first changing such conditions in which managers are made possible is a theory of a practice that will, from a critical perspective, ...of ... See full document

... to critical management studies if management disappeared? CMS may also promote a cynical distance to the understanding of organizations because of its character as a largely intellectualist ... See full document

... garbage management and collection following flooding where rubbish is left on the street, leading to an increased rodent population, especially rats (Lau et ...return when the waters recede, providing ideal ... See full document

... In trying to understand the development of Badiou’s arcane ontology, Callinicos maintains that it is important to give sufficient weight to “the background of what must have seemed to most participants to have been the ... See full document

... in critical management studies (CMS) about organisational ...and management studies (OMS) is criticised for being ...Its critical counterpart is, on the other hand, criticised ... See full document

... Approaching performativity as a possibly subversive mobilizations and citations of previous performances instead of an over-arching concern for efficiency leads us to ask whether CMS should actually seek to become ... See full document

... overtaken management as one of the dominant social myths of our time (Gemmill and Oakley, ...and critical researchers’ by, we developing a critique of ...course, management – controlling through ... See full document

... numbers performed differently for patients and physicians in 1 constructing the disease.. across time, and 2 framing action.[r] ... See full document

... compellingly shown, in some instances management fraud can be aptly explained by a cost- benefit paradigm premised on the notion that individuals act by following purely economic motivations. This is the case, for ... See full document

... to performativity because the inferences that actors inductively draw about social reality depend on the inferences that other actors have inductively drawn before ... See full document

... anthropological studies of stateless living and offered a range of critiques of capitalism, variously inflected with class, feminist, queer, ecological and postcolonial thinking, anarchists differ significantly in ... See full document

... that when controlling for state natural amenity attractiveness, there are significantly positive relationships with population growth over both the subsequent five and ten ... See full document

... In itself, this is uncontroversial, but there are three problems. First, are the chosen means. It may have been ‘materialist’, but the raw material was a discussion of existential problems of identity and power located ... See full document

... The critical management scholar as parrhesiastes might be idealistic, but idealism is about ideas and about setting challenging goals, neither of which we consider to be ...risks. When we attempt to ... See full document

... associates management with a conception of ‘critical’ that transgresses the limits of a narrow sense of ‘criticality’ that is preoccupied with refining and justifying the agenda of the Mainstream, as ... See full document

... evidence-based management (Learmonth, 2008; Morrell and Learmonth, 2015) and refuse any ‘discursive closure’ (Alvesson and Deetz, ...on critical scholars to fight against the ‘paradigm of the expert’ (1994: ... See full document