Making sense of management : a critical introduction

Both provocative and thoughtful, Making Sense of Management provides a fresh perspective on management. In this critical analysis, authors Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott present a stimulating text that argues for the importance of subjecting perceived wisdoms about management to scrutiny. Such scrutiny needs to address not only the means but also, as social and ecological problems proliferate in the global economy, the ends and outcomes of management theory and practices. Making Sense of Management will be special interest to professionals and researchers in management and organizational studies who want to look beyond the surface of traditional management studies.