'Loved the book. I read it quickly. I will re-read it with a pencil in hand this time'
Patrick Nadeau
Software Consultant 'A highly entertaining polemic...This slim volume more than lives up to its title' -
Stefan Stern
Financial Times
'One of the most valuable and interesting books we have read during our MBA at Cardiff University...an inspiration to us' -
Eleni Platitsa
MBA Student, Cardiff Business School
'Grey...has important things to say and he says them with rigour, warmth and a great deal of intelligence...He informs the analysis with humour and humility. It is the most valuable management book I have ever read' -
Debora Campbell
Australian Financial Review BOSS Magazine
'Chris Grey has produced a book many of us have wanted to write for a long time, but have not had the guts to do' -
Andreas Diedrich
Goteborg University, Sweeden
'A highly readable, insightful and enjoyable up-to-the-minute text' -
Marta Calas and Linda Smircich
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
'I've been waiting for someone to come along and write a book such as this one' -
Janne Tienari
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
'It helped open my eyes to the organizational world around me' -
Kyle Parker
First year undergraduate student in Business Studies, Massey University, New Zealand
'I would like to thank you for such an interesting book that I couldn't put down' -
Kate Sweeney
MPA student Liverpool University
'Very much enjoying reading A Very Short...About Studying Organizations - the chapter on Fast Capitalism and the End of Management seems particularly apposite at the moment. Very reflective of some of the themes I am teaching at the moment (and getting into arguments about!)' -
Hugh M. Davenport, Senior Lecturer - Field of Leadership & HRM
University of Northampton
'I wanted to write to you to tell you how much I appreciate your book - as evidenced by the coffee stains and frayed edges, it is a book I cannot live without and I will use it as I continue my education and in to my career' -
Wanda V. Mitchell
Masters student in Healthcare Management and Organization Development, Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy, New York
'Indispensible and subversive' -
Simon Caulkin
The Observer
'Every page has something interesting to say, a great example, a sharp polemic, a superlative popularization, a thought-provoking eccentricity or a new take on something banal and tired' -
Yiannis Gabriel, Professor of Organizational Theory
University of Bath
'This book has carved itself a permanent spot on my bookshelf as I ordered a fresh copy off Amazon after the library finally took their copy back' -
Tim Hannigan
Masters student in Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science
'This is a racy read and rightly challenges the stuffy, often unreadable prose found in academic outlets' -
Royston Greenwood
University of Alberta, Canada
Grey's book serves to transcend fragmented management theory and advance a tenable and valuable reorientation of the field... -- Valerie Priscilla Goby
