Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement

ISBN-13: 9780312294052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 309 str.

Graca Machel; Anshuman Prasad

Opis

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 book's critique of contemporary management invaluable.

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION The Gaze of the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis; A.Prasad PART II: POSTCOLONIAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control; R.A.Mir, A.Mir & P.Upadhyaya Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism; B.Cooke The Empire of Organizations and the Organization of Empires: Postcolonial Considerations on Theorizing Workplace Resistance; A.Prasad & P.Prasad Decolonizing and Re-Presenting Culture's Consequences: A Postcolonial Critique of Cross-Cultural Studies in Management; D.Kwek PART III: CURRENT ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination; P.Prasad Reading the Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: Towards a Postdisciplinary Practice; E.Priyadharshini Accounting for the Banal: Financial Techniques as Softwares of Colonialism; D.Neu Asserting Possibilities of Resistance in the Cross-Cultural Teaching Machine: Re-Viewing Videos of Others; G.Jack & A.Lorbiecki From the Colonial Enterprise to Enterprise Systems: Parallels between Colonization and Globalization; A.Gopal, R.Wills & Y.Gopal The Practice of Stakeholder Colonialism: National Interest and Colonial Discourses in the Management of Indigenous Stakeholders; S.B.Bannerjee PART IV: CONCLUSION The Postcolonial Imagination; A.Prasad & P.Prasad

O autorze

ANSHUMAN PRASAD is Associate Professor of Management and Director, Doctoral Program, at the School of Business, University of New Haven, Connecticut. He has taught at the University of Calgary, and in the International MBA Program of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He is a co-editor of Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity.