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Kenneth Ehrensal

Emeritus Professor and "Critical Management Studies 'scholar'"
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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Research paper thumbnail of Applying the Anthropology of Work

Anthropology of Work Review, Jun 1, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Discourses of global competition

Journal of Organizational Change Management, Oct 1, 1995

Challenges the notion that “global competition” is at the root of the changing fortunes of large ... more Challenges the notion that “global competition” is at the root of the changing fortunes of large American corporations, and that it is the reason for the recent trend to downsize/ rightsize/re‐engineer white‐collar staffs. Argues that the change in employment relations can be explained by understanding capital′s view of the micro‐economics of the firm, as posed by transaction cost economics and the intentional implementation of particular types of information technology consistent with that understanding. Argues also that current praxis is consistent with, and a continuation of, a long‐term capitalist project to wrest control of the labour process away from as many types of workers as possible.

Research paper thumbnail of Work and Lifecourse in Japan

Anthropology of Work Review, Jun 1, 1986

The major issue of the Conference will be "The symbolics of corporate artifacts." Papers are invi... more The major issue of the Conference will be "The symbolics of corporate artifacts." Papers are invited which bear upon questions such as:

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The dark side of management: A secret history of management theory

Management Learning, Aug 20, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Training Capitalism’s Foot Soldiers The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Shut down the business school: What’s wrong with management education

Management Learning, Feb 15, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The stupidity paradox: The power and pitfalls of functional stupidity at work

Management Learning, Feb 15, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Draft/WIP: Preaching Management: Authorized Language in the Business School Classroom

Research paper thumbnail of Draft/WIP: What's Anthropology Got to Do with It? A Critical Essay on Culture and Ethnography in Organizational Studies

Presented in an earlier form at the Organizational Ethnography Symposium

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The dark side of management: A secret history of management theory

Management Learning, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The stupidity paradox: The power and pitfalls of functional stupidity at work

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Shut down the business school: What’s wrong with management education

Research paper thumbnail of COVID 19 and Boogie Nights Thoughts on Online Teaching

Working Paper 21 April, 2020

Some thoughts on not dreading the transition to distance/online formats of teaching.

Research paper thumbnail of Forever an Assistant Professor A Meditation on the Academic Careers in the 21st Century (Stream 33: ‘Academic failure’: Challenging how academic career success is understood, and imagining alternatives. 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference, June 2019)

Research paper thumbnail of Making Managers: Towards an Understanding of how Textbooks, Lectures and Management Case Studies Interact to Inculcate Linguistic and Managerial Habitus in Undergraduate Business Students, Tamara Journal, V. 14, No. 2

Language Socialization Undergraduates Textbooks

Research paper thumbnail of Illiberal by Design: Some Insights from an Ethnography of a Business School (paper presented at the 2013 International Critical Management Studies Conference)

Research paper thumbnail of From Teachers to Professors: A Tale of Identities, Ideologies, Change, Conflict and Lots of Other Good Organizational 'Stuff'(a Work of Ethnographically Informed …

Tamara Journal of Critical Organizational Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Training Capitalism's Foot Soldiers: The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate Business Education

The hidden curriculum in higher education, Jan 1, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Critical Management Studies and American Business School Culture: Or, How NOT to get Tenure in One Easy Publication (paper presented at the 1999 Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK)

This paper examines the institutional history and current culture of US schools of Business and M... more This paper examines the institutional history and current culture of US schools of Business and Management to assess the prospects for critical management studies (CMS) becoming a recognized and accepted mode of study in the corpus.

Research paper thumbnail of Establishing Pedagogic Authority: Accreditation and Staffing of (US) University Business Schools

Pierre Bourdieu: language, culture, and education: …, Jan 1, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Applying the Anthropology of Work

Anthropology of Work Review, Jun 1, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Discourses of global competition

Journal of Organizational Change Management, Oct 1, 1995

Challenges the notion that “global competition” is at the root of the changing fortunes of large ... more Challenges the notion that “global competition” is at the root of the changing fortunes of large American corporations, and that it is the reason for the recent trend to downsize/ rightsize/re‐engineer white‐collar staffs. Argues that the change in employment relations can be explained by understanding capital′s view of the micro‐economics of the firm, as posed by transaction cost economics and the intentional implementation of particular types of information technology consistent with that understanding. Argues also that current praxis is consistent with, and a continuation of, a long‐term capitalist project to wrest control of the labour process away from as many types of workers as possible.

Research paper thumbnail of Work and Lifecourse in Japan

Anthropology of Work Review, Jun 1, 1986

The major issue of the Conference will be "The symbolics of corporate artifacts." Papers are invi... more The major issue of the Conference will be "The symbolics of corporate artifacts." Papers are invited which bear upon questions such as:

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The dark side of management: A secret history of management theory

Management Learning, Aug 20, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Training Capitalism’s Foot Soldiers The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Shut down the business school: What’s wrong with management education

Management Learning, Feb 15, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The stupidity paradox: The power and pitfalls of functional stupidity at work

Management Learning, Feb 15, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Draft/WIP: Preaching Management: Authorized Language in the Business School Classroom

Research paper thumbnail of Draft/WIP: What's Anthropology Got to Do with It? A Critical Essay on Culture and Ethnography in Organizational Studies

Presented in an earlier form at the Organizational Ethnography Symposium

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The dark side of management: A secret history of management theory

Management Learning, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The stupidity paradox: The power and pitfalls of functional stupidity at work

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Shut down the business school: What’s wrong with management education

Research paper thumbnail of COVID 19 and Boogie Nights Thoughts on Online Teaching

Working Paper 21 April, 2020

Some thoughts on not dreading the transition to distance/online formats of teaching.

Research paper thumbnail of Forever an Assistant Professor A Meditation on the Academic Careers in the 21st Century (Stream 33: ‘Academic failure’: Challenging how academic career success is understood, and imagining alternatives. 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference, June 2019)

Research paper thumbnail of Making Managers: Towards an Understanding of how Textbooks, Lectures and Management Case Studies Interact to Inculcate Linguistic and Managerial Habitus in Undergraduate Business Students, Tamara Journal, V. 14, No. 2

Language Socialization Undergraduates Textbooks

Research paper thumbnail of Illiberal by Design: Some Insights from an Ethnography of a Business School (paper presented at the 2013 International Critical Management Studies Conference)

Research paper thumbnail of From Teachers to Professors: A Tale of Identities, Ideologies, Change, Conflict and Lots of Other Good Organizational 'Stuff'(a Work of Ethnographically Informed …

Tamara Journal of Critical Organizational Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Training Capitalism's Foot Soldiers: The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate Business Education

The hidden curriculum in higher education, Jan 1, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Critical Management Studies and American Business School Culture: Or, How NOT to get Tenure in One Easy Publication (paper presented at the 1999 Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK)

This paper examines the institutional history and current culture of US schools of Business and M... more This paper examines the institutional history and current culture of US schools of Business and Management to assess the prospects for critical management studies (CMS) becoming a recognized and accepted mode of study in the corpus.

Research paper thumbnail of Establishing Pedagogic Authority: Accreditation and Staffing of (US) University Business Schools

Pierre Bourdieu: language, culture, and education: …, Jan 1, 1999

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