Critical Management Studies and Business Ethics: A Synthesis and Three Research Trajectories for the Coming Decade

Abstract

critical management studies, business ethics, reflexivity, denaturalization, performativity,

Priorities and Perceptions for Corporate Social Responsibility: An NGO Perspective

“…() draw from the practice of CSR reporting and raise their concern about the manager‐centric stance toward the development and quality of environmental and social disclosure while stressing that inordinate attention has been placed on the business representatives’ perspective compared to other organizational stakeholders’ articulations of corporate (social) accountability. Likewise, Prasad and Mills () point out that in the business ethics discourse certain articulations ‘become taken‐for‐granted while, concurrently, alternative visions and modes of organizing are systematically silenced’ (p. 230) while Jonker and Nijhof () suggest that for CSR to be developed from solid ground the involvement of all kinds of social actors, and from beyond the usual production and consumption systems, is required.…”

Decolonising management studies: A love story

“…A first intervention in the decolonisation of management studies therefore must be to provide a critical and reflexive historiography of the disciplines in the form of publications. This will allow us to engage in processes of 'denaturalisation', there by rendering the familiar narrative of South African management studies 'strange', provocative and disruptive Prasad & Mills 2010).…”

Critical Studies in Diversity Management Literature

“…Prasad (2012, p. 584) argues that the deployment of this methodological stance could "operate as functional mechanism by which individuals in privileged positions can de-center the locus of institutional and systemic power within organizations and within organization studies". In this view, sexual identities are hardly perceived as a mere element of an intersectional phenomenon insofar as "studying a particular phenomenon along a multitude of diversity categories results in ontological incommensurability, which renders approaching research questions empirically a rather difficult methodological task" (Prasad 2012, 585; c.f., Prasad and Mills 2010). In this vein of reasoning, strategic essentialism can be fruitful in investigating "the dual but interrelated objectives of identifying the fluid aspects of social reality and of showing the culturally fabricated nature of essentialist binaries" (Prasad 2012, p. 586).…”