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The International Critical Management Studies Board is the expression of the communities/groups of CMS academics participatin ... g in the international critical management conference held every two years since 1999. The conference was born out of the critical ferment felt in many academic management circles in the 80s and 90s (e.g. San Diego symposium at the American Academy of Management, the Labour Process Conference, EGOS) and the need for new arenas where to discuss/confront issues of inequality, oppression, systematic subordination in management and organization theories and practices. The International Critical Management Conference has usually about 500 participants from over 30 countries. It is organized in streams where management & organizational functions and issues are addressed through critical lenses inspired by different theoretical approaches. The aim is to tackle power relations, inequalities, and the role managing and organizing play in perpetuating repression and domination and/or preventing the development of a sustainable and fairer world. Critical work by those associated with CMS has also been dedicated to active engagement with the struggles for justice and progressive social change in educational and scholarly practices but also lately by working with NGOs, CSOs, and social movements and through such means as interventions in the media, new research avenues/streams, and blogs. The conference has been organized since its inception by an informal network of scholars who had close ties with UMIST (the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK – lately The University of Manchester – Business School) where the first two conferences were held. The funds of the 2005 conference held in Cambridge, UK were utilized for the creation of and continuing maintenance of the website criticalmangement.org. The site was firstly supported by the labour of Kate Kenny and Todd Bridgman and lately by Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and Ekaterina Chertkov read more