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Unraveling Management
Its Institutions, Practices and Beliefs
Edited by James G. Carrier
Afterword by Stefan Leins
226 pages, 2 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-692-5 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (March 2025)
eISBN 978-1-80539-693-2 eBook Not Yet Published
Reviews
“This is a very exciting and very timely book on a topic that is long overdue in anthropology…there’s a rare consistency in the ensemble of chapters even when they are quite different in content.” • Juan Del Nido, University of Cambridge
Description
Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap and provokes us to think seriously about this assumed entity. It does so in various ways, by treating management as an institution, as an object of study, as engaged with culture in different ways and as laden with conflicts.
James G. Carrier has taught, researched and written on aspects of economy in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom. He has co-edited several volumes including After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath (Routledge, 2016) and Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice, with Peter G. Luetchford (Berghahn Books, 2014).
Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyApplied AnthropologySociology
Contents
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