Overview

Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap and provokes us to think seriously about this assumed entity. It does so in various ways, by treating management as an institution, as an object of study, as engaged with culture in different ways and as laden with conflicts.

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Author:   James G. Carrier
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805396925

ISBN 10:   1805396927
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Seeing Management Abstractly James G. Carrier Chapter 1. The Production of Management and the Disappearance of the Manager in MBA Education Andrew Orta Chapter 2. Management’s Hidden Realm James G. Carrier Chapter 3. Writing Managers and Management: Anthropology’s Last Repugnant Other? Michael M. Prentice Chapter 4. Against Collaboration: The Ethics of Studying Corporate Management Felix Stein Chapter 5. Management in the Flow of Culture Greg Urban Chapter 6. Not every Culture has Management, but every Management Has Culture Heung Wah Wong Chapter 7. Life in the Head Office: Material Metaphors of Management Emil A. Røyrvik Chapter 8. Venture Capital Investors as (Asset) Managers Johannes Lenhard Afterword: For an Anthropology of Management Stefan Leins Index

Reviews

“This is a very exciting and very timely book on a topic that is long overdue in anthropology…there’s a rare consistency in the ensemble of chapters even when they are quite different in content.” • Juan Del Nido, University of Cambridge

Author Information

James G. Carrier has taught, researched and written on aspects of economy in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom. He has co-edited several volumes including After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath (Routledge, 2016) and Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice, with Peter G. Luetchford (Berghahn Books, 2014).

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