Authors: William M Foster Elden Wiebe
Publish Date: 2011/01/22
Volume: 94, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-283
Abstract
Critical Management Studies CMS has become an accepted part of mainstream management research Yet as CMS research advances it is our position that CMS’s ethical potential is not being realized Drawing on one of CMS’s theoretical sources Critical Theory CT we suggest that CMS has well embraced the CT element of critique but it has not adequately achieved the element of praxis thereby truncating CMS’s emancipation project This paper seeks to address this trend and recover the ethical promise of CMS by proposing that CMS expand its conception of praxis beyond its current focus on critical pedagogy and participatory research To do so we elaborate on a process model that utilizes both critique and praxis to bring about the practical change of existing structures of domination
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