The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM

Gavin Jack and Robert Westwood
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Gavin Jack: La Trobe University
Robert Westwood: University of Technology

Chapter 2 in International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies, 2009, pp 29-54 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter, and the one that follows, set out to demonstrate why a postcolonial interrogation of international and cross-cultural management is essential for its theoretical and political development. We will identify in ICCM the multiple parochialisms (contextual, quantitative, qualitative) that Boyacigiller and Adler found in organizational science. Consequently, we will argue that the field is marked by a lack of demographic and epistemic diversity, ineluctably embedded in the values and interests of the West (and more especially North America) and reproductive of a highly limited and limiting functionalist and positivist theory culture that eschews the possible development of a critical trajectory for theory development. The multiple resources of postcolonial theory can thereupon be used appropriately to guide us to different locations from which different questions might be asked by a greater diversity of voices from a greater number of positions about our domain of inquiry.

Keywords: International Business; International Management; International Joint Venturis; Culture Concept; International Business Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248441_2

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