THE LEICESTER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: A SINKING BOTTLE

• Autor(a) principal: Espinosa-Cristia, Juan Felipe
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Farol - Revista de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociedade
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/farol/article/view/8271
• topic: Leicester School of Management; Critical Management Studies; Critique; Academic Work; Escola de Administração de Leicester; Estudos Críticos de Administração; Crítica; Trabalho Acadêmico; Escuela de Administración de Leicester; Estudios Criticos de Administración; Critica; Trabajos académicos

The critical theorists of the Frankfurt School liked to describe themselves as a "message in a bottle." The events of 2022 at the University of Leicester, where each of us once studied and/or worked and where 26 academics have been targeted for dismissal because their research was perceived by management to be aligned primarily with critical management studies, give us cause to fear that current critical management and organizational theory is floating in an increasingly bleak ocean. The lesson, the writers of this paper believe, is that we must take seriously the attacks on critical theory that developed at Leicester. We need to emphasize the success of any critical perspective and create spaces for critical scholarship.