ABSTRACT

This chapter considers Critical Management Studies (CMS) as an international heterogeneous network constituted by local CMS enactments that are in relation with each other. It discusses Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a methodological framework to elaborate on the constitution of CMS in a situated context, the Sobey PhD programme. The chapter offers methodological insights from actor-network scholarship or ANT, paying particular attention to the ontological discussion voiced by the 'ANT and after' literature. The aim of ANT is to expose that entities linked together in a network, human beings included, are constituted and shaped by their interactions with each other. Albert and Jean's research focus primarily on the gendering of airline cultures over time amassing material from the archives of British Airways, Air Canada, Pan American Airways and Qantas. Many PhD programmes do not facilitate the enactment of criticality, because the relationships with CMS is not performed and negotiated on a local level.