Abstract:

         Critical management studies (CMS) and critical information systems research (CISR) are characterised by an understanding of critique mainly as a form of theory which enables analysis and evaluation. This approach to critique has generated many valuable studies which identify and analyse various forms of marginalisation, domination and oppression. A persistent issue for these critical traditions includes the following: effectiveness of the critique, the question whether the critical theory translates into critical practice (McGrath, 2005),  and the question whether the powerful theories succeed in transforming the material conditions of the marginalised, dominated and oppressed.