L’humour auto-dérisoire des managers qui aiment lire Dilbert

December 16, 2011
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Management : an impure object of study ?

August 28, 2011
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  In 2008 I went to a conference animated by Christophe Dejours at the École Normale de Lyon, in France. Christophe Dejours is Professor of Psychanalise-Health-Work at CNAM , and he was giving a lecture in a context where there is no research centre of sociology of work. He started by justifying his study field, assuming that...
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Noiville’s Account

August 24, 2011
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Noiville’s Account I’ve Studied at HEC and I Apologize for It is the title of Florence Noiville’s harsh book (2009). The Haute École de Commerce is a french “Grande École”, considered by many (eg. the ranking of Financial Times ) as a top European Business School, and by some sociologists (eg. Bourdieu) as one of the nests...
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A Bibliography on Critical Management

August 18, 2011
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Reference List (in CMS)   Abbott, A. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.   Adler, Paul S. “New Technologies, New Skills.” California Management Review (1986): 9-28.   ________. “Rethinking the Skill Requirements of New Technologies.” in High Hopes for High Tech.  Ed. D. Whittington, 85-112. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1986.   ________. “Automation, Skill and the Future...
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Les managers et leurs discours, de Anne Both

August 18, 2011
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Référence électronique Sofia Amândio, « Anne Both, Les managers et leurs discours », Lectures , Les comptes rendus, 2010, mis en ligne le 14 janvier 2010, consulté le 15 septembre 2011. URL : http://lectures.revues.org/6305
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Where to start

August 18, 2011
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Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established social practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges prevailing systems of domination and promotes the development of alternatives to them. CMS draws upon diverse critical traditions. Of particular importance for its initial...
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It was 12 years ago

August 18, 2011
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“Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme“, translated into several languages, has become a classical in the international critical management sociology. And that’s how it should be read and quoted – as a classical; an old recognized book from which we must build upon. It can no longer be used as a fresh, recent reference for it...
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The man who believed in management

August 18, 2011
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  Michel de Villette is a Researcher at the EHESS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs (Professions, Réseaux et Organisations). He started off by studying in a business school, at the age of 27, wanting to be a marketing specialist. In 1988, at the age of 38, he published his first book “L’homme qui croyait au management”...
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Where to start on CMS

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A french perspective on the ECM

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XXth Century Reluctant Managers

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Portraits based on interviews in depth with british managers working in (both private and public sector) organizations. A great reference, from 1989.

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