Richard Normann Lecture 2011
The Richard Normann Lecture 2011, entitled In Defence of Management, was given by Professor Barbara Czarniawska, Professor of Management Studies, Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics & Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
It is estimated that management will continue to increase in relation to other occupations. This fact, far from producing joy or gratefulness, is met with an increasing hostility towards the occupation. This hostility is not produced by our colleagues in critical management studies - like every art, management needs its critics - but by its often thoughtless enthusiasts.
After having reviewed some most blatant examples from what Nigel Thrift called 'cultural circuit', comprising business schools, management consultants, management gurus, and business media, Professor Czarniawska suggested a way of building an old-new alliance, necessary in order to retrieve the positive meaning of management.
The lecture took place on Thursday 3 March 2011 at 6pm in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre at Green Templeton College.
