Does Brexit mean the end for Critical Management Studies in Britain?
探讨英国脱欧公投中批判管理研究(CMS)与主流商界和主流管理研究站在同一反脱欧立场,导致其难以维持独立身份,并可能标志着英国CMS的终结。
My argument in the Speaking Out essay is, first, that in the European Union Referendum vote, Critical Management Studies found itself on the same, anti-Brexit, side as big business and mainstream management studies, making it hard to sustain itself as something separate from these. Second, I argue that this reflects a wider set of issues about the liberal-left and the European Union, which, third, means that British Critical Management Studies now finds itself located within what is regarded on the pro-Brexit side as ‘the establishment elite’, and that to work effectively against Brexit, British Critical Management Studies will need to work as part of that establishment elite. My conclusion is that this may mark the end of British Critical Management Studies as it has hitherto existed.