we argue
that the main issue for the project management research
community should not be what form of critical analysis is
best suited for enhancing the intellectual basis of critical
management studies. Drawing on critical theory and particularly
the contribution of lurgen Habermas, Alvesson, and
Willmott (1996) suggest that intellectual efforts should be
focused on encouraging inspiration from a variety of theories
and ideas, as a counterforce to technicist and instrumental
forms of rationality in project environments. From a
Habermasian perspective, it might be argued that the objective,
abstract and universal body of knowledge claimed in a
number of authoritative sources as proprietary to project
management fails to live up to the challenges of the embodied
and power-laden realities of its operation.