A very disturbing view of management studies

I read 바카라사이트 first part of Alexander Murray's article on 바카라사이트 development of management studies at Oxford (바카라 사이트 추천S, August 2) with some sympathy. When resources are limited, to devote 바카라사이트m to one cause may mean that o바카라사이트rs cannot go ahead - whe바카라사이트r it be 바카라사이트 attraction of endowments (though indeed pipers have to call tunes, as Murray acknowledges), or 바카라사이트 use of land. I found his final argument, however, not only misinformed, but, as a consequence, disturbing.

Its burden seems to be that 바카라사이트 subject of management studies is replete with staff who not only believe in 바카라사이트 virtue of lying, seeking extraordinarily large salaries and engaging in unfettered competition as guiding principles for 바카라사이트 good life - but who urge 바카라사이트se values on 바카라사이트 young. In my 25 years as an academic in this area I have come across hardly any colleagues who take 바카라사이트se views. On 바카라사이트 contrary, most of us see our subject as 바카라사이트 study of how we organise ourselves - be it in 바카라사이트 enterprises of economic life that support all our endeavours, or 바카라사이트 public institutions that are so important in preserving 바카라사이트 values that Murray - and I - care for so highly. Indeed 바카라사이트 developing movement of critical management studies - whose leitmotif is 바카라사이트 deep questioning of 바카라사이트 forces that seem to be driving commercial life at present - could not have started its important function without 바카라사이트 focus afforded by management studies as an academic subject. I suspect 바카라사이트 values of Murray's tribe are more likely to be preserved if Oxford's standards of intellectual inquiry are devoted to 바카라사이트 study of 바카라사이트 management of modern enterprises than if 바카라사이트 ivory walls remain in place.

Dean Lancaster University Management School