Mats Alvesson
Professor
Extending critical performativity
Author
Summary, in English
In this article we extend the debate about critical performativity. We begin by outlining the basic tenets of critical performativity and how this has been applied in the study of management and organization. We then address recent critiques of critical performance. We note these arguments suffer from an undue focus on intra-academic debates; engage in author-itarian theoretical policing; feign relevance through symbolic radicalism; and repackage common sense. We take these critiques as an opportunity to offer an extended model of critical performativity that involves focusing on issues of public importance; engaging with non-academic groups using dialectical reasoning; scaling up insights through movement building; and propagating deliberation.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
Publishing year
2016-02-01
Language
English
Pages
225-249
Publication/Series
Human Relations
Volume
69
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Business Administration
Keywords
- CMS
- Critical Management Studies
- engagement
- performativity
- public sociology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0018-7267