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The purpose of this paper is to set out an agenda for promoting collaboration between researchers in critical geography and critical management studies.

The paper is divided into two main sections. In the first, a detailed discussion of the nature of critical perspectives in the two traditions is advanced which focuses upon the nature of the two disciplines, the contested meaning of “critical” approaches and our relationship with the wider political world. The opportunities for collaboration are explored in more specific detail through consideration of the ongoing attempts to develop a new perspective on the current international pre‐occupation with corruption and anti‐corruption initiatives, which is both critical and multi‐disciplinary.

In trawling through the political economy of the development of an idea, corruption, the paper demonstrates, not just the part that a critical …