Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 4 Issue 2/3

Introduction to the special issue on “Critical reflections on management and organizations: a postcolonial perspective”

The purpose of this paper is to present a short note on postcolonialism as a field of critical inquiry in the business management field, and enable the guest editors to introduce…

We are all stakeholders now: The influence of western discourses of “community engagement” in an Australian Aboriginal community

In recent years, Australian minerals companies have increasingly considered Aboriginal communities to be “stakeholders”, suggesting that new practices of respect have superseded…

Bureaucratic process as morris dance: An ethnographic approach to the culture of bureaucracy in Australian aboriginal affairs administration

Development of Aboriginal communities, particularly in remote Australia is notoriously difficult. Despite formal equality Aborigines in Australia remain materially deprived and…

Isle of exception: sovereign power and Palm Island

This paper aims to trace the genealogy of state violence on Palm Island to argue forms of “colonial” control over Indigenous governance and organisational life persist in…

Transfers, training and inscriptions: The production of modern market citizens in Malaysia

The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative understanding of knowledge transfers in developing contexts by drawing on recent deconstructions of the development sciences…

Neo‐colonialism through measurement: a critique of the corruption perception index

The purpose of this paper is to provide space for the consideration of alternatives to the dominant conceptions of corruption and its measurement.

Hegemony and its discontents: a critical analysis of organizational knowledge transfer

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how the imperatives of thought and action that…

Understanding social change through post‐colonial theory: Reflections on linguistic imperialism and language spread in Poland

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the post‐colonial literature by addressing the phenomenon of language spread in relation to the spread of languages other than Polish…

A question concerning subject in The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism

Recognising interest in the nascent “rise of China”, the purpose of this paper is to engage with the normative social science approach to comparative management, positing that it…

Let the “other” speak for itself: Understanding Chinese employees from their own perspectives

China is a fast‐growing economy, and many multinational companies (MNCs) have found their ways to infiltrate that market. The competition among the MNCs has generated human…

Women and work in a Jordanian context: beyond neo‐patriarchy

The purpose of this paper is to clarify and re‐position the debate on the role of women in employment in the Arab Middle East by drawing on the findings of empirical research to…

Managing diversity or diversifying management?

The purpose of this paper is to draw on postcolonial theorising on hybridity as a heuristic to explore current tensions described by managers in voluntary organisations engaging…

Editorial introduction