Critical Management Studies and the feminist perspective: a review of the Critical Management Studies debates
- Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez Autonomous University of Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2959-8195
- Maria Medina-Vicent Jaume I University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2716-6786
Abstract
Critical Management Studies (CMS) is an academic movement whose main objective has been to provide critical analysis of the business world within spaces traditionally hostile to alternative perspectives, such as business schools and business administration studies. The theoretical perspective of CMS has been strongly linked to postmodern theories and philosophies, with a special interest in the cultural and symbolic elements present in organizations in a historical moment marked by the hegemony of neoliberalism. It is for this reason that the concern for issues related to feminism and gender has been fundamental in the critical analyses of this movement, and therefore it is worth exploring it, especially since the academic production on these issues has been very extensive and fragmented. In this article, our proposal is to carry out a review of the analyses with a feminist perspective that, in the CMS field, have been discussed over the last three decades, as well as the reception that, in said space, there have been of debates from other fields of knowledge such as philosophy or gender studies.
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