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Contents
Preface
Introduction: Seeing Management Abstractly
James G. Carrier
Chapter 1. The Production of Management and the Disappearance of the Manager in MBA Education
Andrew Orta
Chapter 2. Management’s Hidden Realm
James G. Carrier
Chapter 3. Writing Managers and Management: Anthropology’s Last Repugnant Other?
Michael M. Prentice
Chapter 4. Against Collaboration: The Ethics of Studying Corporate Management
Felix Stein
Chapter 5. Management in the Flow of Culture
Greg Urban
Chapter 6. Not every Culture has Management, but every Management Has Culture
Heung Wah Wong
Chapter 7. Life in the Head Office: Material Metaphors of Management
Emil A. Røyrvik
Chapter 8. Venture Capital Investors as (Asset) Managers
Johannes Lenhard
Afterword: For an Anthropology of Management
Stefan Leins
Index
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 Hb Published (March 2025)
eISBN 978-1-80539-693-2
web ISBN 978-1-80539-693-2