Postcolonial theory and organizational analysis: a critical engagement This book takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: Could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations Employing the frameworks of postcolonial theory an international group of scholars addresse this question and offer remarkable insights about the implications of the colonial encounter for management. Wide ranging in scope the book covers major topics like cross cultural management control and resistance corporate culture the discourse of exoticization in museums and tourism and stakeholder issues and sheds new light on the troubling legacy of colonialism. Scholars and practitioners searching for a new idiom of management will find this books critique of contemporary management invaluable. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Part I: Introduction Chapter 1 The Gaze of the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis Part II: Postcolonial Engagements with Management and Organization Theory Chapter 2 Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control Chapter 3 Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism Chapter 4 The Empire of Organizations and the Organization of Empires: Postcolonial Considerations on Theorizing Workplace Resistance Chapter 5 Decolonizing and Re Presenting Cultures Consequences: A Postcolonial Critique of Cross Cultural Studies in Management Part III: Current Issues and Empirical Investigations Chapter 6 The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination Chapter 7 Reading the Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: Toward a Postdisciplinary Practice Chapter 8 Accounting for the Banal: Financial Techniques as Softwares of Colonialism Chapter 9 Asserting Possibilities of Resistance in the Cross Cultural Teaching Machine: Re Viewing Videos of Others Chapter 10 From the Colonial Enterprise to Enterprise Systems: Parallels between Colonization and Globalization Chapter 11 The Practice of Stakeholder Colonialism: National Interest and Colonial Discourses in the Management of Indigenous Stakeholders Part IV: Conclusion Chapter 12 The Postcolonial Imagination Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z.