...Maxim Voronov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how critical management studies' (CMS) awkward relationship with the world of practice may have allowed it to become a dominated field in academia, which features a nearly exclusive focus on research for theory's sake, a lack...

... influence in some domains of critical management studies (CMS) as well as mainstream organization theory. Design/methodology/approach The literature review discusses Russian literature theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's analysis of the writings of François Rabelais and related his concept...

... at: t.diefenbach@open.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Change management Managerialism Organizational change Critical management Our era is a period of change. This is not unusual in the history of mankind. What perhaps is different this time is that change shall be managed...

... contributes to the understanding of how service management intends to fixate the subject. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Per Skålén can be contacted at: per.skalen@kau.se Critical management Management power Customer service management Gap analysis Critical...

... offer a more viable way forward than that implied by recourse to the fundamentally elitist notions of “collegiality”. Originality/value The paper presents new research on WAMs and NPM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Working practices Universities Critical management Public...