Call for Papers (submission details see below)
-- Management Knowledge: Construction, Dissemination, Consumption --
Stream for the 2nd International Conference on Critical Management Studies
University of Manchester, England, July 11-13, 2001
Stream conveners:
Michael Chumer, Rutgers University ([log in to unmask]); Thomas
Armbruester, University of Mannheim ([log in to unmask]); Ron
Day, Wayne State University ([log in to unmask])
While the theme of management knowledge and knowledge management has
produced a growing body of conceptual and empirical work, the life cycles of
management knowledge and the appeal of knowledge management to managers are
still under-explored issues. In this regard, questions need to be addressed
about the way management knowledge emerges, how it is transmitted, and under
which circumstances it is consumed. This, in turn, raises questions about
the aspect of packaging and commodification, about the appeal of knowledge
management in general and certain approaches (techniques, concepts) in
particular, and about the ontological status of managerial knowledge itself.
Other aspects involve the international dimension of knowledge transmission,
which is connected with cultural hegemony, diversity, and resistance. The
stream is open to issues of embeddedness: political, structural and cultural
circumstances, within which management knowledge emerges and is transmitted,
are to be addressed.
We invite the submission of conceptual and empirical, also historical,
papers of any paradigmatic provenance, which touch on the following themes:
(Construction and contents)
- The construction and emergence of management knowledge: creation and
explication, or disembodiment and harvesting?
- The political economy/political embeddedness of management knowledge: the
involvement of different groups, and the relation of power and knowledge
- Contents and approaches: cultural hegemony, variety or convergence of
management techniques
- Academic treatments of, and attitudes towards, management knowledge and
knowledge management
- The ontological status: management knowledge, or expertise, or just
practice?
(Dissemination)
- The media of management knowledge: the role of consultants, (investment)
banks, publishers, multinational corporations, and academics
- The structural embeddedness of management knowledge: network analysis,
inter-actor ties, and the institutional setting
- The paths of knowledge dissemination: country-to-country transmission,
hegemony, resistance
(Consumption)
- The appeal of knowledge management: acceptance and use of management tools
and techniques
- The role of commodification and the ontological status of management
knowledge
- Power/knowledge, the use of ideas, and the confirmation of the managerial
status
- The role of knowledge management in economic restructuring and in the
'global economy'
Submission Details
An abstract of 1000 words (250 words for poster papers) should be submitted
to one of the stream conveners via email, fax or mail by 31 October 2000.
Acceptance decisions will be communicated by December 1st 2000. Full papers
will be due by May 1st 2001.
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