When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies

Fleming, P; Banerjee, SB

When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies

Fleming, P

Banerjee, SB

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Publisher:: SAGE Publications
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Human Relations, 2016, 69, (2), pp. 257-276
Issue Date:: 2016-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Fleming, P https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6838-7190
dc.contributor.author	Banerjee, SB
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-08T00:29:15Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-08T00:29:15Z
dc.date.issued	2016-02-01
dc.identifier.citation	Human Relations, 2016, 69, (2), pp. 257-276
dc.identifier.issn	0018-7267
dc.identifier.issn	1741-282X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/158738
dc.description.abstract	This article argues that recent calls in this journal and elsewhere for Critical Management Studies scholars to embrace rather than reject performativity presents an overly optimistic view of (a) the power of language to achieve emancipatory organizational change and (b) the capability of lone Critical Management Studies researchers to resignify management discourses. We introduce the notion of failed performatives to extend this argument and discuss its implications for critical inquiry. If Critical Management Studies seeks to make a practical difference in business and society, and realize its ideals of emancipation, we suggest alternative methods of impact must be explored.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartof	Human Relations
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0018726715599241
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1608 Sociology, 1701 Psychology
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management
dc.title	When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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This article argues that recent calls in this journal and elsewhere for Critical Management Studies scholars to embrace rather than reject performativity presents an overly optimistic view of (a) the power of language to achieve emancipatory organizational change and (b) the capability of lone Critical Management Studies researchers to resignify management discourses. We introduce the notion of failed performatives to extend this argument and discuss its implications for critical inquiry. If Critical Management Studies seeks to make a practical difference in business and society, and realize its ideals of emancipation, we suggest alternative methods of impact must be explored.

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