The focus of this work is care and compassion within the context of organization and management studies. The text aims to understand how members of an English hospice identify or fail to identify with an organization where issues of life and death take centre stage and explores problems it faces...

Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of 'good management' derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's...