Against the grain
Subtitle: advances in postcolonial organization studies
By: Anshuman Prasad (editor)
Series: Advances in organization studies -- v. 28; Advances in organization studies -- 28.
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press; Liber; Universitetsforlaget
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Copenhagen]; Malmö, Sweden; Oslo, Norway
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9788763002431; 9788215019697; 9789147097500
Subjects: Politics and government; Indigenous peoples; Organizational sociology; Organization; Multiculturalism; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Working against the grain : beyond Eurocentrism in organization studies / Anshuman Prasad; title: Packaging paradise : organizing representations of Hawaii / Jonathan E. Schroeder & Janet L. Borgerson; title: Unveiling Europe's civilized face : gender relations, new immigrants and the discourse of the veil in the Scandinavian workplace / Pushkala Prasad; title: Swachh Narayani, the goddess of good governance : the creation of a goddess as an organizational intervention / Christina Schwabenland; title: Indigenous governance : the Harvard project, Australian Aboriginal organizations and cultural subsidiarity / Patrick Sullivan; title: Inscribing the body : the construction of educational practices for the female other / Viktorija Kalonaityte; title: Treats and threats : global cultures in India's call centers / Kiran Mirchandani, Srabani Maitra & Jasjit Sangha; title: Constructing the neocolonial manager : orientalizing Latin America in the textbooks / Gabriela Coronado; title: Beyond modernist thinking : unmasking the myth of collective organization in the development debate / Monique Nuijten; title: A postcolonial perspective on organizational governance in New Zealand : reconciling Māori and Pākehā forms / Joy Panoho & Ralph Stablein; title: The new war on African corruption : just another neo-colonial adventure? / William De Maria; title: Whose capacity needs building? / Deirdre Tedmanson; title: A postcolonial reading of Hofstede's Culture's Consequences / Martin Fougère & Agneta Moulettes; title: Seeds and food or bits and bytes? : arguing for a new approach to development in India / Raza Mir & Ali Mir.