Postcolonial theory and organizational analysis : a critical engagement / edited by Anshuman Prasad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prasad, Anshuman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Organization.

Organizational sociology.

Physical Description:

xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This book takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: " Could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations?" Employing the framework of postcolonial theory, an international group of scholars addresses this question, and offers remarkable insights about the implications of the colonial encounter for management. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers major topics like cross-cultural management, control and resistance, corporate culture, the discourse of exoticization in museums and tourism, and stakeholder issues, and sheds new light on the troubling legacy of colonialism.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Gaze of the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis / Anshuman Prasad 3

Part II Postcolonial Engagements with Management and Organization Theory

Chapter 2 Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control / Raza A. Mir, Ali Mir, Punya Upadhyaya 47

Chapter 3 Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism / Bill Cooke 75

Chapter 4 The Empire of Organizations and the Organization of Empires: Postcolonial Considerations on Theorizing Workplace Resistance / Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad 95

Chapter 5 Decolonizing and Re-Presenting Culture's Consequences: A Postcolonial Critique of Cross-Cultural Studies in Management / Dennis Kwek 121

Part III Current Issues and Empirical Investigations

Chapter 6 The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination / Pushkala Prasad 149

Chapter 7 Reading the Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: Toward a Postdisciplinary Practice / Esther Priyadharshini 171

Chapter 8 Accounting for the Banal: Financial Techniques as Softwares of Colonialism / Dean Neu 193

Chapter 9 Asserting Possibilities of Resistance in the Cross-Cultural Teaching Machine: Re-Viewing Videos of Others / Gavin Jack, Anna Lorbiecki 213

Chapter 10 From the Colonial Enterprise to Enterprise Systems: Parallels between Colonization and Globalization / Abhijit Gopal, Robert Willis, Yasmin Gopal 233

Chapter 11 The Practice of Stakeholder Colonialism: National Interest and Colonial Discourses in the Management of Indigenous Stakeholders / Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee 255

Chapter 12 The Postcolonial Imagination / Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312294050

OCLC:

50669263