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Surprisingly, even after the Marxist scaffoldings that supported such claims have been deconstructed\u2014both practically and theoretically\u2014there are still current contributions to management thought that seek to resuscitate the same critiques, often under the rubric of Critical Management Studies. These representations seem increasingly bizarre, given the theoretical currents emanating from post-structuralist and postmodern thought that have been emergent in recent years, associated ideas such as polyphony, difference, deconstruction and translation. In this article we draw on these sources to produce a different representation of management\u2014one that we would argue acts as an effective counter-factual to that which provides support to some of the central tendencies manifest in critical approaches to management. 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