This ebook originated from the research stream 'Critical Views in Health Care Management' at the 8th International Critical Management Studies Conference held in Manchester, UK in July 2013. The overall theme of the conference was 'Extending the limits of neo-liberal capitalism', inviting critical scholars to connect this global phenomenon with more local features of management and organization and to consider new options for economy and society. In our stream we asked how different societal upheavals, risks and crises affect the professions and the positions of clients in the health and social care sector and how health and social care systems respond to these changes at micro and macro levels. The stream welcomed papers addressing "the darker sides" of organizational life and calling into question the conventional wisdom and prevailing theories and practices in health and social care. We were interested in contributions which would enhance our understanding of the topics such as unbalanced power positions, the demand for active citizenship: employees as organizational citizens (organizational citizenship behaviour, OCB), clients as consumer citizens, volunteers and other informal carers as active partners of official care systems, changing professions (e.g. job division), marginalization and exclusion of clients of health and social care; many of these themes mirroring paradoxes in the values prevailing in health and social care. The stream included eleven interesting contributions, the authors of the papers representing seven different countries. Six of the papers are available in this ebook, and are examples of how critical management studies and critical orientation in general can be applied to health and social care management.