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Critical Management Education beyond the Siege

Critical management education beyond the siege

Abstract

Management education has been dominated by managerialism and its underlying assumptions (rationality, efficiency, performativity, control, objectivity, etc.). Although some management scholars have denounced management orthodoxies and have provided illuminating critiques of business curricula and their ingrained pedagogies, their efforts have yet to achieve the promised emancipatory journey for educators, students, and citizens. Critical Management Education (CME) is at impasse, unable to liberate management teaching from the siege of managerialist capitalism, and the corporatization and deskilling of the university. While we recognize the many challenges facing CME, we outline and explain its tenets and offer some ideas on how they can be translated into practice.

Introduction

Critical Management Education (CME) arose in the 1990s (Perriton and Reynolds, ...

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