Critical management as critique of management

The task of this introduction to “critical management” is twofold. First, it presents a short overview of what management actually is, outlining four different perspectives on management, while the second part delivers a critical-analytical overview of recent articles published on critical management in the journal Critical Sociology between 1989 and today. The first part starts by highlighting the difference between management and “critical” management. The second part coincides what is written in Critical Sociology. To illuminate Critical Sociology’s writings on management, five articles and one book review essay have been assembled into this e-special.