Is Global Management Knowledge on the Way to Impoverishment?

Abstract

This article seeks to synthesise three fields of inquirymanagement studies, linguistics and cognitive psychologyto explore an arguably emerging phenomenon of global management knowledge (MK) impoverishment. To this end, three literatures are reviewed and interrogated for the insights they may provide into the underlying factors affecting global MK: trends in knowledge production, Englishisation of management scholarship and the culturally determined differences in cognition. Arguments are developed through descriptive investigation, discussion and analysis. The central proposition of this article is that the politics of knowledge production, the hegemony of English as the dominant language of management studies and the variations in thinking styles are synergistically interlinked in a way that facilitates Anglophone homogenisation of management research and potentially leads to global MK impoverishment. The ways of addressing the situation are discussed.

Entrepreneurial orientation and competitive aggressiveness: A need for conceptual refinement and contextualization

“…One of the major concerns in terms of theory building and conceptual expansion is that novel management concept tend to emerge in the developed markets research context. Although occasionally used by scholars in emerging markets (e.g., Mrabure, Ruwhiu, & Gray, 2021;Swierczek & Ha, 2003), the utility and the usefulness of these constructs should not be unquestionably assumed (Bachkirov, 2021). This concern is potentially relevant to the concepts of entrepreneurial orientation and competitive aggressiveness, which originally also appeared in western management literature.…”