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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.
“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
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).
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