Passionately Transforming Management

This new series of provocative books radically stimulates and re-imagines the possibilities of contemporary management to renegotiate the way the discipline can realise its full potential. Too long restricted to an outdated view of rationality and science, management studies must return to emotion, joy and empathy. We need managers who still harbour passions and loves about things often excluded or suppressed. This series brings together established writers, the outsider, the provocateur and the eminent grise of management studies. Authors are invited to pursue an idea or concept as far as they can take it, whether towards logical or absurdist conclusions. Here, feminist science, new materialism and post- humanist approaches join ecological sensibilities, biophilia and decolonial thinking. Forget Management 101 and its syllabus of how to implement a new business strategy or devise a recruitment and selection process that conforms to legal requirements. Passionately Transforming Management introduces topics as diverse as crime, gardening, football, wine connoisseurship, the menopause, papier mâché, urban walking and military uniforms. This series shows how private passions become vehicles and support for the pursuit of successful management practice. Exploring overlooked and otherwise disdained and repressed subjects, this series passionately transforms the ways management can enjoy and cultivate a capacity for daring, creativity, improvisation and spontaneity.