CMS5 Conference
Reconnecting Critical Management
The Fifth International Critical Management Studies Conference
11-13 July 2007
Venue: Renold Building, Sackville Street
Conference programme
- Conference (by session) (Acrobat PDF)
- Conference (by stream) (Acrobat PDF)
Full papers and abstracts for CMS5 are available from the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory.
Plenary speakers
- Professor George Ritzer, University of Maryland
- Professor Ben Fine, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Professor Paul Adler, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
- Professor Ruth Milkman, UCLA
George
Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor in the Department
of Sociology, University of Maryland. He has an MBA from the University
of Michigan and a PhD in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
He has written several books on sociological theory and metatheory, many
of which have been translated into several languages. He is particularly
well known for his book “The McDonaldization of Society”,
first published in 1993, and the wide-ranging debate which it inspired,
and more recently for “Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing
the Means of Consumption” in 1999 and “The Globalization of
Nothing”, published in 2004. He is co-founding editor (with Don
Slater) of the Journal of Consumer Culture.
Ben
Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, and Director of the Centre for
Economic Policy for Southern Africa at SOAS. Recent books include “Social
Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at
the Turn of the Millennium” (2001); “Development Policy in
the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus” (2001); “The
World of Consumption: The Material and Cultural Revisited” (2002); “Marx's
Capital” fourth edition (2004); and “The New Development Economics:
A Critical Introduction” (2006). His research interests include "economic
imperialism" or the relationship between economics and other social
sciences, especially social capital; the material and cultural determinants
of consumption, particularly food; privatisation and industrial policy;
and development theory and policy.
- Keynote presentation (Acrobat PDF)
Paul
Adler is Professor in the Marshall School of Business, University
of Southern California. He has a doctorate in economics and management
at the University of Amiens, gained while working as a Research Economist
for the French government. Before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated
with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business
School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. He has served as chair of
the Technology and Innovation Management Division and the Critical Management
Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published
widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas.
He has published four edited volumes, Technology and the Future of Work
(1992), Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools (1992), and Remade
in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems
(1999), and The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust
in the Knowledge Economy (2006), all with Oxford University Press.
Ruth
Milkman is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute
of Industrial Relations at UCLA. She did her undergraduate work at Brown
University and received her MA and PhD from the University of California,
Berkeley. Her research and writing has ranged over a variety of issues
surrounding work and labour organisation in the US. She has written many
articles and four books: Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation
during World War II (1987); Japan's California Factories: Labor Relations
and Economic Globalization (1991); Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers
in the Late 20th Century (1997); and most recently, L.A. Story: Immigrant
Workers and the Future of the US Labor Movement (2006).
