Book contents
- Management Tools
- Management Tools
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations for Thinking about Management Instrumentation
- Part II Three Major Types of Social Science Approaches
- 3 Critical Perspectives on Management Tools
- 4 Institutionalist Perspectives on Management Tools
- 5 Interactional Perspectives on Management Tools
- Part III Synthesis
- General Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Critical Perspectives on Management Tools
from Part II - Three Major Types of Social Science Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2019
- Management Tools
- Management Tools
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Foundations for Thinking about Management Instrumentation
- Part II Three Major Types of Social Science Approaches
- 3 Critical Perspectives on Management Tools
- 4 Institutionalist Perspectives on Management Tools
- 5 Interactional Perspectives on Management Tools
- Part III Synthesis
- General Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
For the authors brought together in this chapter, social asymmetries, and the balance and relations of power are at the heart of the analysis. Management tools are caught up in these relations which they often mediate and facilitate, or sometimes moderate or regulate. Although these approaches allow the construction of a critique of management tools, showing how far they serve projects of domination and exploitation, participate in forms of oppression and violence and produce suffering, nevertheless the way in which the different theses construct their critique are diverse but complementary. Taken together, these approaches allow us to move from the most global social functioning and its systemic effects to the oppressed individuals in their subjective experience.
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- Management ToolsA Social Sciences Perspective, pp. 59 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019