Against management: Auto-critique
作者回顾其著作《反对管理》出版20年来的影响,指出该书虽被广泛引用但已过时,并呼吁批判管理研究在气候、生态、不平等和民主危机加剧的背景下,发展不可还原为“管理”的替代组织形式,提出十点宣言。
In this review I consider the 20 years that have passed since the publication of my book Against Management. I begin by locating it in the context of the expanding business schools of the UK in the 1990s, and the growth of CMS in north western Europe. After positioning the book within its time, and noting that the book is now simultaneously highly cited and irrelevant, I then explore the arguments I made in the final chapter. If the book is of interest for the next two decades, it because it gestures towards the importance of alternative forms of organization, which I continue to maintain are not reducible to ‘management’. Given the intensifying crises of climate, ecology, inequality and democracy, developing alternatives must be understood as the historical task of CMS within the business school and I propose a ten-point manifesto in support of that commitment.