International and cross-cultural management studies : a postcolonial reading

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International and cross-cultural management studies : a postcolonial reading

Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

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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.

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PART I: THE ORTHODOXIES OF ICCM Towards A Postcolonial Reading of ICCM The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM The Institutional Present PART II: HISTORICIZING ICCM Colonial Legacies Modernization, Industrialization and Development Globalization and Multiculturalism PART III: STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION IN ICCM Representational Strategies One: Orientalism and Othering Representational Strategies Two: Establishing a Canon Engagement, Hybridization and Resistance PART IV: REFRAMING ICCM Decolonizing Methodology in ICCM Towards An Alternative Institutional Present Conclusion

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