Critical Management Studies (CMS)

The Critical Management Studies Division promotes the expression of views critical of unethical management practices and the exploitative social order. CMS believes that the structural features of contemporary society, such as the profit imperative, patriarchy, racial inequality, and ecological irresponsibility often turn organizations into instruments of domination and exploitation. Driven by a shared desire to change this situation, CMS aims in their research, teaching, and practice to develop critical interpretations of management and society and to generate radical alternatives. Their critique seeks to connect the practical shortcomings in management and individual managers to the demands of a socially divisive and ecologically destructive system within which managers work.