Hodgson and Carter present a volume that contributes to the ongoing
debate in Knowledge Management. They develop themes explored in Roy
Jacques' influential text, Manufacturing the Employee, as a starting
point the authors consider the status of contemporary management
knowledge. They do this from a range of theoretical positions that draw
key implications for both research and teaching. The volume hosts an
array of eminent scholars in the field. The collection explores, and at
times takes issue with, the increasing influence of post-structuralist
thought on our understanding of the nature of management knowledge, and
draws key implications for both research and teaching. The various
chapters consider the nature of management knowledge from perspectives
as diverse as management history, discourse analysis, gender,
post-structuralism, social construction, neo-institutionalism, and
critical realism.