Think and act like revolutionaries': Episodes from the global triumph of management discourse

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 19-26

  Thrift, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346171526     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8705.00427     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. N. J. Thrift, 'The rise of Soft Capitalism', Cultural Values, 1 (1997), 29-57
2. and 'Virtual Capitalism: Some Proposals', in J. Carrier and D. Miller (eds), Virtualism: The New Political Economy (Oxford: Berg, 1998)
3. N. J. Thrift with Kris Olds, 'Cultures on the Brink', in A. Ong and S. Collins (eds), Global Anthropology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
4. For critical views of the cultural circuit, see A. Huczynski, Management Gurus (London: Routledge, 1996)
5. S. Furusten, Popular Management Books (London: Routledge, 1999)
6. D. Collins, Management Fads and Buzzwords (London: Routledge, 2001)
7. T. Clark and R. Fincham (eds), Critical Consulting (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)
8. 'UK media hail Blair's visit and Singapore's success', Straits Times, 10 January 1996
9. Cited in M. Arun and M. T. Yap, 'Singapore: The Development of an Intelligent Island', Urban Studies, 37 (2000), 1749-57
10. 'Play striker and score', Straits Times, 21 August 2000
11. See N. J. Thrift, 'Cities and Economic Change: Global Governance', in J. Allen, D. Massey, M. Pryke (eds), Understanding Cities, vol. 2, Unsettling Cities (London: Routledge, 1999), 271-320
12. Editorial, Bangkok Post, 5 July 2001
13. I am less concerned than others about management discourses' supposed faddishness, however (see René ten Bos, Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000)
14. 'The Anti-management Guru', The Economist, 3 April 1997
15. But this is going to take some doing. Management discourse has seeped into the unconscious. Witness Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), often hailed as the successor to Capital. In fact, more often the book reads like a modern management theory text on change management and leadership