Bøker av Thomas Klikauer

The term 'managerialism' is widely used not only in the world of business and government and this book details the theory behind the illusive idea of 'managerialism'. It distinguishes between management and managerialism and highlights the two groups pushing managerialism, namely corporate apparatchiks and the apostles of managerialism.

From Brexit to Bregret tells the fascinating tale of the United Kingdom exiting the European Union. Promised by Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, the UK held a referendum in 2016 which showed a narrow majority (52%) in favour of leaving the EU. A few years later, another Tory Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, got Brexit done. Following this, in May 2023, 56% of all British people believed that it was wrong to leave, while just 32% still thought that it was the right decision. Another 2023 poll showed that 62% agreed that Brexit was a mistake. In other words, in the years after Brexit, many Brits started to regret Brexit. Bregret is felt strongly. Yet, From Brexit to Bregret not just tells the story of how it came to Brexit, looking at the political side (how Brexit won). It also shows the role of the media (Brexiting through the media) and highlights the part that Dark Money (and dirty politics) played. The second part of the book reports stories of local people suffering from Brexit, their anxieties when Brexit started to bite back, and the Schadenfreude felt by some in the I-told-you-so camp. Finally, the book closes with a sober assessment of what Brexit will mean for Britain and the European Union in the coming years.

This book explains how management became Managerialism and how the language of managerialism was developed.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the managerialism-language interface, the book argues that firstly, managerialism itself has developed its distinctive language; and secondly, the two concepts of managerialism and language mutually depend upon each other. Written from the critical media studies perspective of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, the book reaches beyond simple business communication, illustrating how the language of managerialism is colonising the non-corporate lifeworld. The book concludes by offering fresh ideas on how to move beyond the language of managerialism.

This book argues that media and capitalism no longer exist as separated entities, and posits three reasons why one can no longer exist without the other. Thirdly, media capitalism provides mass deception to hide the pathologies of capitalism, which include mass poverty, rising inequalities, and the acceleration of global warming.

Written in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, this book develops a practical theory designed to humanise management education. Management Education outlines measures for preventing Managerialism from colonising learning spaces that would prevent the practice of emancipatory learning from flourishing.

Hegel's Moral Corporation is about two versions of a corporation, one business oriented and dedicated to shareholder-value and profit-maximisation and one dedicated to moral life, Sittlichkeit, in Hegelian terms.

As managerial work regimes move continuously towards post-industrialism, forms of communication change with it and work relationships are increasingly becoming communicative relationships. This book seeks to end communicative distortions by establishing a new model of communication that will set up practical and workable communication forums.