Book Review of Overcoming Managerialism: Power, Authority and Rhetoric at Work

Overcoming Managerialism, written by Robert Spillane and Jean-Etienne Joullié, is an important account regarding the shortcomings of management practice and research which emerged over the last 60 or so years. Accordingly, their work is a major criticism against current mainstream business practice, education and research. Indeed, some commentators, both on the political left and right, have challenged the nature of managerialism, that is the idea that power and authority should adhere to the top strata of society, who are seemingly beyond their responsibility to their fellows. Many of the long-term trends in modern society, especially those that have been...