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Changing institutions: Critical Management Studies as a Social Movement

Willmott, H. (2017). Changing institutions: Critical Management Studies as a Social Movement. In: Malin, V., Murphy, J. & Siltaoja, M. (Eds.), Getting Things Done (Dialogues in Critical Management Studies, Volume 2). (pp. 123-163). Emerald Group Publishing. doi: DOI: 10.1108/S2046-6072(2013)0000002011

Abstract

Purpose

To consider Critical Management Studies as a social movement.
Design/methodology/approach

The purpose is fulfilled by reflecting upon the history of Critical Management Studies by reference to social movement theory, institutional theory and the social theory of hegemony.
Findings

Critical Management Studies is plausibly understood as a social movement.
Originality/value

The chapter offers a fresh perspective on Critical Management Studies by representing it as a movement rather than as a specialist field of knowledge.

Publication Type: Book Section
Publisher Keywords: Critical Management Studies, management education, institutional change, social movement theory, institutional theory, social theory of hegemony
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Departments: Bayes Business School > Management
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