ABSTRACT

Narrative approaches to organisation and management studies are very much in vogue. Offering a new challenge to management scholarship, Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. In doing so, it encourages readers to recognise the stories that

chapter 1|9 pages

Writing what I have written

chapter 2|33 pages

Pre-cedents in management theory

chapter 3|28 pages

Pre-scripts in literary theory

chapter 5|69 pages

Scriptive readings

chapter 6|28 pages

Performance, perspective and persuasion

chapter 8|10 pages

Post-scriptive reading