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Index
International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies
Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Part I
The Orthodoxies of ICCM
1
Towards a Postcolonial Reading of ICCM
Introduction
Parochialism in the management academy
A selective overview of postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in the management academy
Neo-colonial discourse analysis and organization field
Organization field and structural dependencies
Organization of the book
2
The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM
Introduction
Some ground-clearing
Contextual and qualitative parochialism in ICCM
Paradigmatic entrenchment and hegemonic practice
The ‘as-if’ syndrome
Context, selective reporting and non-inclusive generalization
The qualitative panacea?
Problems and impediments to indigenous research
Partial interdisciplinary engagements: The case of anthropology
3
The Institutional Present
Introduction
Structures of dependence/independence and societal support
Universities, management regimes and academic careers
The internationalization of managerialism
Professional academies and associations
The publications apparatus
Textbooks
Surveying the field: the institutional bias in journal publishing
Keepers of the journals: editors and the editorial process
Academic dependency and captive minds
Part II
Historicizing ICCM
4
Colonial Legacies
Introduction
Colonialism and modern science
Historicizing and politicizing science
Colonial science and the university: The example of Australia
Staging science in India
Colonialism and anthropology
Situating anthropology
Anthropological knowledge and objectification
The structure and colonial patronage of anthropological research
The business of Empire
Managing and accounting for slavery and racism
Merchant enterprise and the East India Company
5
Modernization, Industrialization and Development
Introduction
The emergence of a discourse of ICCM
Weber and truncated historicism
International management in the US academy
The academy, international business and the Soviet threat
The Inter-University Study of Labor Problems in Economic Development
Managerialism and functionalism
The Ford Foundation and management education
Decolonization and the discourse of development
The parameters of the discourse
The industrialization thesis and its imperatives
Normative convergence
Conclusion
6
Globalization and Multiculturalism
Introduction
Historicizing and politicizing globalization
Contemporary international political economy
Cultural globalization and multiculturalism
Global and local culture
The nation-state
Multiculturalism
Conclusion
Part III
Strategies of Appropriation in ICCM
7
Representational Strategies One: Orientalism and Othering
Introduction
Representationalism and the properties of representation
Orientalism and essentialism in the discourse of ICCM
Industrialization and its essentialisms
The nineteen-sixties
The nineteen-seventies
8
Representational Strategies Two: Establishing a Canon
Introduction
The nineteen eighties
The nineteen nineties
Into the twenty-first century
9
Engagement, Hybridization and Resistance
Introduction
Forms of engagement
Local and context-specific modes of management and organization
Theorizing the ‘local voice’
Values and interpretation
Hybridization
Japan and the West: Hybridizations and flows in management
The circulations of quality control
P-M as a hybridized leadership theory
Appropriation, reappropriation and return
I am a buffalo
Avoidance, isolationism and silence
Conclusion
Part IV
Reframing ICCM
10
Decolonizing Methodology in ICCM
Introduction
Decolonizing theory
Questioning our questions
Missing subjectivities
Postcolonial contexts
Problematize the native informant
Unthinking privilege and ethnoscience
Decolonizing methodology
Collaborative ethnography
Public/Activist ethnography and PAR
Autoethnography
Writing, reflexivity and critical praxis
Global ethnography
Indigenous research methodologies
11
Towards an Alternative Institutional Frame
Introduction
Societal context and local support environment
International location and networks
Universities and their management regimes
Professional and academic associations
Textbook and pedagogy
Journals and journal publishing apparatus
Captive minds and constructive imitation
12
Conclusion
Identities and carriers of privilege
Conclusion and implications
Our silences, new futures?
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
References
Index
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