International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Post-Colonial Reading »

ROBERT WESTWOOD is Reader in Organisation Studies at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia.

GAVIN JACK completed U.G. and PhD degrees at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

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.

List of Tables

Pt. I The Orthodoxies of ICCM 1

1 Towards a Postcolonial Reading of ICCM 3

2 The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM 29

3 The Institutional Present 55

Pt. II Historicizing ICCM 85

4 Colonial Legacies 87

5 Modernization, Industrialization and Development 114

6 Globalization and Multiculturalism 140

Pt. III Strategies of Appropriation in ICCM 165

7 Representational Strategies One: Orientalism and Othering 167

8 Representational Strategies Two: Establishing a Canon 192

9 Engagement, Hybridization and Resistance 224

Pt. IV Reframing ICCM 249

10 Decolonizing Methodology in ICCM 251

11 Towards an Alternative Institutional Frame 280

12 Conclusion 302

Notes 315

References 322

Index 351