Against the grain : advances in postcolonial organization studies / / Anshuman Prasad (editor)

• Pubblicazione: [Copenhagen], : Copenhagen Business School Press; Malmo, Sweden, : Liber; Oslo, Norway, : Universitetsforlaget, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.35
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism; Multiculturalism; Indigenous peoples - Politics and government; Organization; Organizational sociology
• Altri autori: PrasadAnshuman
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Forside""; ""Titel""; ""Kolofon""; ""Advances in Organization Studies""; ""Dedikation""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes on the Contributors""; ""Chapter 1: Working Against the Grain: Beyond Eurocentrism in Organization Studies""; ""Chapter 2: Packaging Paradise: Organizing Representations of Hawaii""; ""Chapter 3: Unveiling Europeâ€?s Civilized Face: Gender Relations, New Immigrants and the Discourse of the Veil in the Scandinavian Workplace"" ; ""Chapter 4: Swachh Narayani, The Goddess of Good Governance: The â€?Creationâ€? of a Goddess as an Organizational Intervention""""Chapter 5: Indigenous Governance: The Harvard Project, Australian Aboriginal Organizations and Cultural Subsidiarity""; ""Chapter 6: Inscribing the Body: The Construction of Educational Practices for the Female Other""; ""Chapter 7: Treats and Threats: Global Cultures in Indiaâ€?s Call Centers""; ""Chapter 8: Constructing the â€?Neocolonialâ€? Manager: Orientalizing Latin America in the Textbooks"" ; ""Chapter 9: Beyond Modernist Thinking: Unmasking the Myth of Collective Organization in the Development Debate""""Chapter 10: A Postcolonial Perspective on Organizational Governance in New Zealand: Reconciling MÄ?ori and PÄ?kehÄ? Forms""; ""Chapter 11: The New War on African “Corruptionâ€?: Just Another Neo-Colonial Adventure?""; ""Chapter 12: Whose Capacity Needs Building?""; ""Chapter 13: A Postcolonial Reading of Hofstedeâ€?s Cultureâ€?s Consequences""; ""Chapter 14: Seeds and Food or Bits and Bytes? Arguing for a New Approach to Development in India""; ""References""
• Sommario/riassunto: The sudden collapse of the Western imperium during the middle of the 20th century marked a major shift in world history. Coming in the wake of that collapse, postcolonial theory offers a uniquely inventive scholarly framework for critiquing modern Western colonialism and neo-colonialism, and represents one of the most serious challenges to Eurocentric habits of thought that continue to bedevil current practices of scholarship. In this volume, Anshuman Prasad and his colleagues trace some of the trajectories being taken by current postcolonial theoretic research in the scholarly field of management and organization studies. Representing an international group of organizational scholars, the contributors to this collection focus upon a wide range of important issues, such as: Management of workplace diversity and multiculturalism Cross-cultural management Cultural and other aspects of contemporary globalization Issues of representation Complexities of indigenous governance involving the Aborigines in Australia and the Maori in New Zealand Limitations of international management textbooks produced in the West The implications of non-modernist Third World organizations for the modernist discourse of development. In that process, the book s contributors not only provide remarkable insights into the continuing significance of the colonial encounter for the current discourse of management, but also offer a number of valuable pointers for working against the grain of the conventional discourse of management. Suggesting that postcolonial theory represents a heterogeneous and open-ended scholarly approach that repeatedly breaches disciplinary boundaries and refuses to be systematized, this volume in the Advances in Organization Studies Series offers an important look at the extraordinary power and promise of postcolonialism as a critical perspective in management and organization studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Against the grain
• ISBN: 87-630-9940-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967373103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in organization studies ; ; 28.