Unravelling management its institutions, practices and beliefs / edited by James G. Carrier.

Other author Carrier, James G.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn, 2025.
Descriptionviii, 206 pages 24 cm
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Contents Introduction. Seeing management abstractly / James G. Carrier -- The production of management and the disappearance of the manager in MBA education / Andrew Orta -- Management's hidden realm / James G. Carrier -- Writing managers and management : anthropology's last repugnant other? / Michael M. Prentice -- Against collaboration : the ethics of studying corporate management / Felix Stein -- Management in the flow of culture / Greg Urban -- Not every culture has management, but every management has culture / Heung Wah Wong -- Life in the head office : material metaphors of management / Emil A. Røyrvik -- Venture capital investors AS (asset) managers / Johannes Lenhard -- Afterword. For an anthropology of management / Stefan Leins.
Abstract "Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap and provokes us to think seriously about this assumed entity. It does so in various ways, by treating management as an institution, as an object of study, as engaged with culture in different ways and as laden with conflicts"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2024046828
ISBN9781805396925 hardback
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