editorial
Escaping Wonderland
Fact fiction
In Lewis Caroll’s celebrated 1871 novel, Through the looking-glass (TLG), which is the sequel to his beloved Alice’s adventures in Wonderland (AIW) from 1865, the protagonist Alice encounters the so-called
Crawling from the wreckage
The future of critique in the business school is the future of the business school
This Special Issue emerged from an ephemera workshop questioning how critique continues to have a role in contemporary business schools.
Towards a politics of dis/organization: Relations of dis/order in organization theory and practice
[T]he work of organization is focused upon transforming an intrinsically ambiguous condition into one that is ordered so that organization as a process is constantly bound up with its contrary state of disorganization. (Cooper, 1986: 305)
[T]he undecidable can only become decidable through the practice of power and ‘violence’ (Cooper, 1986: 324)
Capitalist unrealism: Countering the crisis of critique and imagination
Introduction: Capitalism, unpacked
How does capitalism – in its various guises – capture the value that we produce in society? There are many ways to answer this question, because capitalism has many ways to extract value from us (Chertkovskaya et al., 2016; Hanlon, 2017). On the surface, everything seems above board. Businesses erect factories and offices for us to work in; workers sign contracts and receive wages for their daily efforts; and shareholders put in the capital and get a return on their investments. But below the surface, things are not quite so straightforward.