The Politics of Management Knowledge

By Gill Palmer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803979347
• ISBN13: 9780803979345
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"