ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that in Scandinavia, Critical Management Studies (CMS) gets interpreted in five different ways and that these interpretations have some geographical correlate. It discusses that CMS research as organized in two schools in Copenhagen and Lund and three smaller clusters in Helsinki, Stockholm and Gothenburg. The ethnic and cultural kinship of particularly Norway, Sweden and Denmark has something to do with Iron Age commonalities. The Gothenburg Cluster of CMS is not so much a cluster, given that it is associated primarily with Barbara Czarniawska. The Stockholm cluster applies critical themes to project management and gender as well as health in organizations, among other things. The Copenhagen School tends to be driven primarily by strong readings of postmodernism and is theoretically informed by French sources. The Helsinki Cluster has been inspired by theories of practice, narrative, sense making, discourse and gender, applying them in various contexts.
