International and cross-cultural management studies
Subtitle: a postcolonial reading
By: Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood.
Contributors: Westwood, Robert.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781403946171
Subjects: Management -- Cross-cultural studies; Postcolonialism; Globalization -- 21st century
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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 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.