Praxis Makes Perfect: Recovering the Ethical Promise of Critical Management Studies

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has become an accepted part of mainstream management research. Yet, as CMS research advances, it is our position that CMS’s ethical potential is not being realized. Drawing on one of CMS’s theoretical sources, Critical Theory (CT), we suggest that CMS has well embra...

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Authors: Foster, William M. (Author) ; Wiebe, Elden (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2010
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 94, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-283
Further subjects:B Critical Theory
B Critique
B Practice
B Emancipation
B critical management studies
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Summary:Critical Management Studies (CMS) has become an accepted part of mainstream management research. Yet, as CMS research advances, it is our position that CMS’s ethical potential is not being realized. Drawing on one of CMS’s theoretical sources, Critical Theory (CT), we suggest that CMS has well embraced the CT element of critique, but it has not adequately achieved the element of praxis, thereby truncating CMS’s emancipation project. This paper seeks to address this trend and recover the ethical promise of CMS by proposing that CMS expand its conception of praxis beyond its current focus on critical pedagogy and participatory research. To do so we elaborate on a process model that utilizes both critique and praxis to bring about the practical change of existing structures of domination.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0756-6