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E-book Critical Management Studies in South Africa : Directions and contexts

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Critical management studies in South Africa: Directions and contexts’ represents the second formalised work on critical management studies (CMS) in South Africa. Following 5 years after ‘Critical management studies in the South African context’, this book shows how CMS scholarship is starting to develop a character of its own in South Africa. It attests to the fact that CMS, albeit slowly, is starting to gain momentum amongst South African scholars, and that issues are starting to crystallise that are defining CMS in South Africa.Management as a field of inquiry in South Africa is dominated by capitalist ideology and positivist methodology. Although interpretive scholarship has increased in the past two decades, most of this still falls within the parameters of ‘mainstream’, capitalist thinking. Scholarship outside the domain of capitalist thinking, such as critical scholarship, however, still remains sorely underexplored.Being entrenched in the positivist tradition is arguably a major Achilles’ Heel for the progression of management as a field of inquiry. Positivists do not engage in meta-theoretical debate, as it is seen as a fruitless exercise (Sousa 2010). This represents a form of ‘intellectualist prejudice’, where other forms of human knowledge and epistemologies are disregarded (How 2003). Positivists value neutrality, autonomy and impartiality in scholarship (Kalelioglu 2020). leaving no room for the cultural, political and social realities that discourse functions within (Prasad 2015). The positivistic focus is therefore on the ‘facts’, with little regard for the social realities that surround these ‘facts’.More than a quarter of a century after a transition to a full-fledged democracy, South Africa is still struggling to come to terms with current realities brought about by a distinct history, political legacy, economic legacy and societal chronology. These things cannot – and should not – be separated from any discourse in the South African context (Nkomo 2011). Management is no exception. Our entire management discourse is the result of political, ideological and economic manoeuvring through phases of time. From Dutch mercantile expansionist ideals to British imperialist and colonial agendas, which saw the subjugation of indigenous peoples of South Africa, to the years of apartheid, which forged Cold War era alliances against the ‘communist threat’, in favour of the capitalist doctrine, into the democratic era typified by grappling with past imbalances and trying to redress the past, management cannot be seen in isolation from these eras and variables associated with them.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

658.4036 GOL c

Penerbit

South Africa : AOSIS Publishing., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

212 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781776341900

Klasifikasi

658.4036

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Decision Making Management

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