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Beyond the Ivory Towers

Organizational Power Practices and a"Practical" Critical Postmodernism

Columbia University

Peter T. Coleman

Columbia University

The aim of this article is to consider how the important insights offered by critical management studies (CMS) can be made more accessible to wider audiences and used to inform organizational practice. The authors start by briefly discussing the main ideals and aims of CMS, touching on the heterogeneity of the field and focusing on the issues that CMS scholars have had to address to find receptive ears among non-CMS scholars and practitioners. They then proceed to suggest how CMS may become better able to reach those audiences by offering more accessible concepts and methodologies. The notion of organizational power practices is introduced as a way to facilitate that task by making CMS-inspired investigation of power more accessible and relevant to everyday organizational concerns.

Key Words: critical management studies • power • application • critical theory • postmodernism

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 39, No. 2, 169-185 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0021886303255560


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