Capturing postcoloniality in action

Krysa, Isabella; Le, Kien; Mills, Jean Helms; Mills, Albert J.

doi:10.1108/cpoib-05-2015-0025

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“…Some authors have applied the concept of the subaltern in Spivak (1988) to analyse relationships involving present-day organisations or corporations (Alawattage & Wickramasinghe, 2009;Dhanani, 2018;Krysa et al, 2016;Raman, 2020). For example, Dhanani (2018) examined the imbalanced relationship between the NGOs and beneficiaries although the NGOs did not colonise beneficiary communities.…”

Section: Voice Of the Subalternmentioning

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“…This is because postcolonial theory argues that the voices of the subaltern are excluded from political issues (Ashcroft et al, 2013;McEwan, 2009;Spivak, 1988). As mentioned in Section 4.5, international organisations have been argued to inadequately take into account the views of ordinary people (Krysa et al, 2016;Murphy & Albu, 2018). Vietnamese people can be considered to be the subaltern in contrast with the ruling people.…”

Section: The Relevance Of Postcolonial Theory In This Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pension Reforms in Vietnam: Voices of Local Citizenry

Nguyen,

Cordery,

Marriott

2023

Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research

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Many developing countries have reformed their national pension systems in response to ageing populations and to increase pension scheme participation. The World Bank has been active in pension reforms in developing countries since the 1990s, and Vietnamese pension reforms since 2004 have reflected many proposals of the World Banka leading international donor to Viet Nam since 1993.There have been many criticisms of the World Bank's pension privatisation proposals for developing countriesfor example, the World Bank did not take into account country-specific environmental factors such as financial market conditions and regulatory capacity, and it focused on economic growth rather than old-age poverty reduction.This research studies whether the Vietnamese pension reforms, with the World Bank as an active agent, have taken into account the concerns and expectations of an important stakeholder group: the Vietnamese people. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and a survey of Vietnamese people. The findings from interviews and the survey were analysed with reference to the World Bank's proposals for Viet Nam and changes in Vietnamese legislation. The aim of the research is to explore the extent to which the World Bank, with its global power, and the Vietnamese government, with its dependence on global finance and technical knowledge, have responded to concerns and expectations of Vietnamese people. This research adopts postcolonial theory to examine the relationship between agents with different power levels. Using terms from postcolonial theory, these agents are the neo-colonial power, the colonised, and the colonised subaltern. In seeking to hear the voices of the colonised subaltern, the research provides empirical evidence to support the claim that the neo-colonial power and the colonised ruling class have attended inadequately to the voices of the subaltern, especially the subordinate subaltern. This research finds that the more subordinate the situations of people are, the lower level of trust they show and the less willing they are to participate in a contributory pension scheme in Viet Nam. The research also finds that the World Bank's pension proposals for Viet Nam and Vietnamese pension reforms pay inadequate attention to low levels of trust in pension management, inadequate pension amounts, and the vital role of familial support for older people.These findings suggest the importance of listening to the voices of the subaltern, which should lower their resistance. Specifically, people's trust in pension management should be improved if developing countries want to increase pension participation, especially for the groups who are likely to be poor in old age, such as people with informal employment and with lower educational attainment. Moreover, the more balanced priorities in goals to better match people's views and concerns can be helpful for agents with power in order to achieve the mission of poverty alleviation. 3.3.3 Voluntary, privately managed pension schemes (the third pillar) 3.4 Pe...

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Section: Voice Of the Subalternmentioning

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Section: The Relevance Of Postcolonial Theory In This Studymentioning

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Pension Reforms in Vietnam: Voices of Local Citizenry

Nguyen,

Cordery,

Marriott

2023

Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research

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From margin to center: listening to silenced subjectivities in international business

Prasad

Durepos

2016

CPOIB

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Purpose The editorial introduces the special issue entitled, “Voices at/from the margins: Articulating the consequences of international business”. Design/methodology/approach The editorial begins by briefly describing how the idea for the special issue was initiated and then provides an overview of the articles included. Findings The editorial contains a discussion of the themes emerging from the special issue articles. Originality/value The editorial provides some consideration of how the collection of articles included in the special issue, both individually and collectively, contribute to listening to subjects that are situated at the margins of international business.

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ANTi-History of the functionalist paradigm in organization theory: using the lens of March and Simon’sOrganizations

Mills

Novičević

Roberts

2021

JMH

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of James March and his actor-network in the development of a functionalist paradigm of organization theory (OT). Recognizing the important contribution of March to the development of the field of OT, the authors set out to understand the role that he played in establishing the oft-quoted development of founding a behavioral facet of the functionalist paradigm of management theory. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on ANTi-History to study some of the key factors that contributed to the challenges associated with the creation of a functionalist paradigm of OT. ANTi-History is an amodernist method drawing attention to how history is produced, differing from a modernist method for identifying the single-most truth of a series of past events and from a postmodernist method for revealing the relativity of accounts of the past. To that end, the method of ANTi-History is to explore the intersections of a series of human (e.g. scholars), non-human (e.g. a textbook) and non-corporeal (e.g. paradigms) actors to assess their role in producing a version of the past (e.g. a unified field of OT). Findings The authors reveal how the history, producing the paradigmatic idea of OT as a supposed field of inquiry, is not an account of an actual field of inquiry as much as it is the outcome of the shared and conflicted worldviews of multiple actors. Originality/value The unique and original contribution is in the tracking over time of the relationship between a known and important actor James March and the formation of a specific paradigm of OT. In particular, the authors focus on the factors and activities that formed or failed to form OT at points in time and James March’s role in this. In the process, the authors set out to learn not simply what James March achieved but how he achieved it.

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Capturing postcoloniality in action

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Pension Reforms in Vietnam: Voices of Local Citizenry

Pension Reforms in Vietnam: Voices of Local Citizenry

From margin to center: listening to silenced subjectivities in international business

ANTi-History of the functionalist paradigm in organization theory: using the lens of March and Simon’sOrganizations

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