Can the Periphery Write Back? Periphery-to-Centre Knowledge Flows in Multinationals Based in Developing and Emerging Economies

Michal Frenkel

Chapter 2 in Core-Periphery Relations and Organisation Studies, 2014, pp 33-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In their book The Empire Writes Back, Ashcroft et al. (1989) remind us that the after-effects of colonialism are not limited to the colonies; they also flow back to reshape the imperial metropole as well. In management and organisation studies, scholars have shown that the bureaucratic experience in the colonies (e.g., Frenkel & Shenhav, 2006) and the experience acquired in the management of slaves in southern plantations (Cooke, 2003a), for instance, actually contributed to shaping the ‘Western’ (or Northern) canon of management theory. In this constellation, the subaltern’s impact on the coloniser is always bottom up, and is always mediated through the active role taken by the coloniser in developing new types of knowledge that are grounded in his encounter with the ‘Other’.

Keywords: Home Country; Human Resource Management; Indigenous Knowledge; Multinational Corporation; Outward Foreign Direct Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137309051_2

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