En torno al potencial transformador de los CMS (Critical Management Studies)

Abstract

This essay examines Critical Management Studies (CMS) in terms of their transformative potential regarding the world of work. To this end, I briefly characterize cms and review their historical development in the uk. I argue that the main theoretical concerns of cms are not the exclusive purview of its British version, but that they have also been addressed by scholars from other countries and institutional affiliations in social sciences other than management. Finally, I conclude that the disciplinary plurality of CMS and the intellectual concerns that drive them are clearly aligned with a transformative role more akin to fields like sociology than to management and organization studies. More than organizational change agents, CMS scholars could become public intellectuals committed to unmasking the dominant economic and managerial ideologies.