Synopses & Reviews
International and cross-cultural management has received very little critical attention to date. This book draws upon specific ideas from postcolonial theory to present a critique of these related academic fields. The authors argue that these management disciplines are Western discourses that exhibit historical as well as contemporary resonances with the vicissitudes of what might be broadly be called 'the colonial project'. The book explores alternative and perhaps more politically and morally constructive approaches to the question of the 'other' in late global capitalism. ROBERT WESTWOOD is Reader in Organisation Studies at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia. GAVIN JACK completed UG and PhD degrees at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Synopsis
International and cross-cultural management has received very little critical attention to date. This book draws upon specific ideas from postcolonial theory to present a critique of these related academic fields. The authors argue that these management disciplines are Western discourses that exhibit historical as well as contemporary resonances with the vicissitudes of what might be broadly be called 'the colonial project'. The book explores alternative and perhaps more politically and morally constructive approaches to the question of the 'other' in late global capitalism.
Synopsis
Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management. It argues that such disciplines are Western discourses and exhibit historical and current resonances with the vicissitudes of the so called 'colonial project'. The book explores alternative approaches to the question of the 'other' in late global capitalism.
Synopsis
This book draws upon specific ideas from postcolonial theory to present a critique of the related academic fields of international and cross-cultural management.
About the Author
ROBERT WESTWOOD is Reader in Organisation Studies at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia. GAVIN JACK completed U.G. and PhD degrees at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Colonial Legacies * Discourses of Scientific and Anthropological Rationality * Modernization, Industrialization and Development * Globalization and the Language of Late Capitalism * The Institutional Present of International Management * Orientalism and the Politics of Alterity * Pretending the Universal * In the Mirror of the Other: Constituting the Self through Representations of Alterity * The Mechanics of Marginalization and Exclusion * Deconstucting Colonialism * Resistance and Re-appropriation * Reconceptualising Same/Different Relations * Non-Appropriating Representational Practices * Embracing the Local: Methodologies of Inclusion * Towards an Alternative Institutional Frame * Conclusions