Confronting Managerialism

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender, J.C. Spender

Book Overview

Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to 'managerialism', whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from any ethical considerations call the shots.

The book traces the loss of managers' earlier social concerns, amply encouraged by management...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178032071X
• ISBN13: 9781780320717
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"