Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of establis

This handbook analyses and explores the evolution of management; the core functions and how they may have changed; its position in the culture of modern society

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management.

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of establis

'Critical Management Studies', or 'CMS', describes a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Ma