Conclusion

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

Chapter 12 in International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies, 2009, pp 302-314 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this short concluding chapter to the book, our aim is to provide a reflexive evaluation of the conditions of possibility, significance and limitations of our argument. In consonance with our calls for ICCM researchers to demonstrate reflexivity, we too attempt to speak of our own social identities, structural and epistemic positions, values and interests. We do so in order to acknowledge the forms of privilege and power that enabled the production of this book, and the contradictions attendant to it, and to situate it in its specific locations. Against this reflexive context, we provide a conclusion and evaluation of our argument, outlining its significance for the field of ICCM in general, and postcolonial modes of critique in MOS in particular. But we also try to articulate the silences and point to the limitations and constraints of the text we have produced here. In this particular regard, we emphasize the potential disjuncture between our predominantly cultural critique and the wider conditions of possibility for such a critique to be heard. The limitations of our own privilege, and the silences, distortions, and biases to which they inevitably give rise, produce a range of choices and directions for future researchers wishing to pursue a critique of international and cross-cultural management studies.

Keywords: Social Identity; Structural Position; Epistemic Position; Cultural Structure; Theoretical Resource (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248441_12

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