Business - The Palgrave Macmillan Critical Management Studies Series
** Announcing a new series of ground breaking texts from Palgrave Macmillan **
Series Editors
- Alessia Contu, University of Warwick, UK
- Bill Cooke, University of Lancaster, UK
- Campbell Jones, University of Leicester, UK
- Irena Grugulis, University of Bradford, UK
Consulting Editor
- Hugh Willmott, University of Cardiff, UK
International Advisory Board
- Paul Adler, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, USA
- Bobby Banerjee, University of Western Sydney
- René ten Bos, Nijmegan School of Management, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- Stella Nkomo, University of South Africa
Most management textbooks have a narrow and overly technical approach to their subject matter. As a result of this restricted view they are largely irrelevant to the issues actually facing managers and workers and are detached from the dilemmas and critical choices involved in organised life. Because of their emphasis on technique, students also complain that they are often tedious and uninteresting. This series has a different approach. It offers a set of student-friendly texts that take seriously the critical issues confronting students of business and management today.
The Critical Management Studies Series from Palgrave Macmillan will be the first port of call for educators who are tired of the “cook books” that currently abound in business school libraries, and who, instead, wish to promote the creation of an engaged, relevant and ethically meaningful management education. The series will give authors the opportunity to communicate important critical ideas in a straightforward way and will give students accessible introductions to the best critical thinking about business and management.
The series will focus on the complete range of specialisms and sub-disciplines in business and management, including areas that have not previously been subjected to critical scrutiny. Each of the texts will seek to establish something of a landmark, showing how a critical understanding enriches the field of the too-often-simplistic discussions on business and management and will focus on aspects and concerns that are hidden by commonly held views. Each of the texts will articulate a critical vision of management. However, they will not mechanically apply a critical perspective but will demonstrate the political need and ethical merit of a critical education in business.
Please consult with the Series Editors regarding proposals, or to discuss ideas for a proposal. For details on compiling a
proposal please visit www.palgrave.com/authors/index.asp.
Completed proposal may be sent to any of the Series Editors or to Ursula Gavin at:
Palgrave Macmillan, Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS, UK
email: u.gavin@palgrave.com
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