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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrier, James G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2025.

Summary:

"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.

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.

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ISBN:

9781805396932

1805396935

9781805396949

1805396943

OCLC:

1493079226