Postcolonialism and the politics of qualitative research in international business

Gavin Jack and Robert Westwood
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Gavin Jack: University of Leicester
Robert Westwood: University of Queensland

Management International Review, 2006, vol. 46, issue 4, No 6, 501 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper offers a re-configuration of international business research by subjecting it to a postcolonial critique. This critique sees international business research as exhibiting continuities with the colonial project in the way it appropriates the Other. Qualitative research in international business often reproduces a neopositivist separation of theory and method, which can marginalize discussion of the important ontological, epistemological and political issues inherent in any research process.

Date: 2006
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