Critical Management Studies in the South African context

Goldman, Geoff A.

doi:10.4102/aosis.2016.cmssac08

“…In the book edited by Goldman (2016c), the last chapter reports on a study dealing with, amongst others, the extent to which South African management scholars were familiar with the notion of CMS . What is interesting to note from this study is that from a sample of 88 senior management academics (i.e.…”

Section: Critical Management Studies Scholarship In the South African Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical management studies: Beginning or end?

Linde¹,

Taljaard²

2021

Critical Management Studies in South Africa: Directions and Contexts

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“…In the book edited by Goldman (2016c), the last chapter reports on a study dealing with, amongst others, the extent to which South African management scholars were familiar with the notion of CMS . What is interesting to note from this study is that from a sample of 88 senior management academics (i.e.…”

Section: Critical Management Studies Scholarship In the South African Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artificial entrepreneurship and fallacy assumptions that inform enterprise development failure

Pretorius¹,

Roux²,

Rosslyn-Smith³

et al. 2021

Critical Management Studies in South Africa: Directions and Contexts

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Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review prior to publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher and/ or authors in question. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. Where the reviewers recommended revision and/or improvements to the manuscript, the authors responded adequately to such recommendations.

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“…Management as an academic discipline can also be seen as a continuation of the colonial project (Jack & Westwood, 2006). As a field of enquiry, mainstream management discourse strives for universality and supports the unity of science notion, and in so doing, marginalises non-Western traditions (Goldman, 2016b). This situation has to be seen as part of the larger project of Western capitalism.…”

Section: Decolonisation and The South African Management Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

“…CMS aims to subvert this status quo through interrogation of the seemingly objective and accepted aspects of organisational functioning, such as organisational hierarchy, managerial practices, organisational power relations, and organisational conduct (Alvesson & Willmott, 2003). Thus, CMS is highly sceptical of mainstream management thinking, as well as the epistemological foundations thereof (Goldman, 2016b). It wants to demonstrate how management practice and research has been fixated on organisational performance at the expense of societal welfare, and what the implications of this fixation are (Adler, Forbes & Willmott, 2007;Prasad & Mills, 2011).…”

Section: Critical Management Studies and Decolonisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second of these tenets, 'reflexivity' recognises the values which direct CMS research agendas, as well as the epistemic principles that guide this research. CMS scholars reflect more on the assumptions and routines of knowledge creation and understand how culture, history and context influence knowledge, and what the consequences thereof are (Butler & Spoelstra, 2014;Goldman, 2016b). The final tenet, 'denaturalisation', suggests that CMS scholars do not accept management knowledge at face value.…”

Section: Critical Management Studies and Decolonisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using the Critical Management Studies Tenet of Denaturalisation as a Vehicle to Decolonise the Management Discourse in South Africa

Goldman

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2020

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It has been roughly five years since the #FeesMustFall student protests shook the foundations of higher education in South Africa. However, in the aftermath of these protests, students' demand for the decolonisation of the curriculum, despite initial energy, has seemingly lost momentum. Within the discipline of management and organisation studies, the situation is even more exacerbated, with efforts towards decolonisation being cosmetic at best. However, much criticism has been directed towards the notion of decolonisation for its lack of normative literature. This article suggests that Critical Management Studies (CMS) and, in particular, the CMS notion of denaturalisation, might provide a broad framework for achieving decolonisation. Furthermore, the work of contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière is proposed as a pragmatic means to denaturalise management thinking to move closer to a truly decolonised management curriculum in South Africa.

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Critical Management Studies in the South African context

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Critical management studies: Beginning or end?

Critical management studies: Beginning or end?

Artificial entrepreneurship and fallacy assumptions that inform enterprise development failure

Using the Critical Management Studies Tenet of Denaturalisation as a Vehicle to Decolonise the Management Discourse in South Africa

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