1. Introduction - Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott Section I - Anticipating critical management studies 2. Management ideology - P. D. Anthony 3. The servants of power - Loren Baritz 4. Critical issues in organizations - Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley 5. The power elite - C. Wright Mills Section II: studying management critically 6. Critical theory and postmodernism: approaches to organization studies - Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz 7. Changing spaces: the disruptive impact of new epistemological location for the study of management - David Knights 8. The politics of organizational analysis - Richard Marsden Section III - Critical studies of management 9. Market, hierarchy, and trust: the knowledge economy and the future of capitalism - Paul S. Adler 10. Tightening the iron cage: concertive control in self-managing teams - James R. Barker 11. The managing of the (third) world - Bill Cooke 12. The making of the corporate acolyte: some thoughts on charismatic leardership and the reality of organizational commitment - Heather Hopfl 13. Sexuality at work - Rosemary Pringle 14. Performance appraisal and the emergence of management - Barbara Townley 15. Studying managerial work: a critique and a proposal - Hugh Willmott Section IV - Assessing critical management studies 16. Writing critical management studies - Martin Parker 17. Brands, boundaries, and bandwagons: a critical reflection on critical management studies - Paul Thompson 18. Abstract ethics, embodied ethics: the strange marriage of foucault and positivism in labour process theory - Edward Wray-Bliss