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The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM

In: International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies

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  • Gavin Jack

    (La Trobe University)

  • Robert Westwood

    (University of Technology)

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.

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  • Gavin Jack & Robert Westwood, 2009. "The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies, chapter 2, pages 29-54, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24844-1_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230248441_2
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