Resisting Colonization in
						Business and Management Studies: From Postcolonialism to Decolonization

Weston, Alia; Imas, J. Miguel

doi:10.4135/9781526430212.n8

Cited by 11 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The multiplicity of the lived experience of the authors 1 brought multiple perspectives, informed by respective historicized and culturalized locations, into the research team, about which we became reflexively aware as the research progressed (Jack and Westwood, 2006;Jack et al, 2011). Finally, the contrasting imagery of the thriving Marwari Bazaar and the faltering limited liability joint stock textile mill in the same textile milieu of Liba that the first author encountered in initial visits stood as a reminder, not only of the business success of the Marwari community and plausibility of 'an-other' (Faria, 2013) form of organizing capital, but also of the glaring 'silences and omissions' (Weston and Imas, 2018) of knowledge in MOK 'texts'.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Can an author from the South 'speak'? Academicians from the South are known to experience 'silences and omissions' about practices and contexts that are closer to 'lived life' (Weston and Imas, 2018). Decolonising MOK, thus requires developing a deeper understanding of coloniality and its forms of power.…”

Section: Literature Review: What Can Decolonising Mok Mean?mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Governance of Marwari capital: Daily living as a decolonial ‘matrix-of-praxis’ intermeshing commercial, religious and familial spheres

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper is a narration on practices of unlimited liability Marwari businesses of a textile town in Western India. Although depicted as an ‘outdated’ form of incorporation, these businesses were surprisingly resilient prompting us to engage in exploration of their ways of doing business. We deployed Mignolo’s concept of colonial-matrix-of-power to anchor our interpretive sense-making of enactments of our participant businessmen. The daily doings of the businessmen and their families enacted a ‘way of life’, Marwaripan. Activities created an intermesh across ‘local’ spaces of family, business and religion, constituting, what we call, a decolonial matrix-of-praxis. It created a ‘local’ form of Marwari governance where circulation and access to capital depended on extensively (and labouriously) negotiated construction of ‘status’ within open spaces of ‘enunciation’. However, preserving Marwaripan also required arduous striving and collective toil to continuously construct subjectivities based on customary dharma through a communitarian pedagogy that could wean away actors from the state driven pedagogy of regular schools.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Literature Review: What Can Decolonising Mok Mean?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance of Marwari capital: Daily living as a decolonial ‘matrix-of-praxis’ intermeshing commercial, religious and familial spheres

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The dangers of an absence of such reflexivity are well documented by (e.g. Weston and Imas, 2019). Both authors are from Africa but trained and based in the Global North.…”

Section: Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 95%

The enemy within: The legitimating role of local managerial elites in the global managerial colonization of the Global South

Toivonen

Seremani

2021

Organization

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper contributes to the drive to decolonize management and organization knowledge by unpacking the role played by indigenous managerial elites in the global managerial colonization of the Global South. We focus on the narratives managerial elites construct to legitimate managerialism to a dissenting population. We conducted an ethnographic study of efforts by members of the city council of Yaoundé, in Cameroon to implement and legitimate a global managerial intervention. Our findings show that to successfully legitimate the imposition of managerialism to a dissenting populace, managerial elites construct hybrid narratives. These hybrid narratives are not ignorant of the local context and are particularly potent because of the manner in which they factor in some local concerns, making the managerialist intervention more palatable to locals and yet continuing to impose a foreign way of life.

show abstract

“…Thus, we are aligned with those engaged in projects for decolonizing the business schools, and therefore, decolonizing historically the knowledge we produce (Wanderley and Faria, 2012;Weston and Imas, 2018). Yet, writing is not enough, even now as we move with feminist scholarship on "new materialisms" onto other projects addressing the Anthropocene, and the human and nonhuman suffering under it (Cal as et al, 2018).…”

Section: Conclusionbut What About Mutiny?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Mute, mutation, and mutiny: on the work of feminist epistemology

Calás

Smircich

2021

JMH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose This paper aims to bring to the fore the importance of feminist epistemologies in the history of the organization of management studies since the 1980s by following various intellectual moves in the development of feminist theorizing as they cross over to organization studies, including their analytical possibilities for reclaiming historically the voices of major women scholars, especially in doctoral seminars. The paper narrates these epistemological activities by mobilizing and reconsidering from the past to the present, the notions of “unmuting,” “mutating” and “mutiny.” It ends in a reflection addressing the state of business schools at present and why the field of organization and management studies needs “mutiny” now. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a narrative approach in which the voices of its authors appear to be central as they consider and reconsider over time their understanding of “unmuting,” “mutation” and “mutiny” as notions with analytical potential. This approach is influenced by Foucault’s “history of the present” but with contingencies brought about by feminist interpretations. The application of these notions is demonstrated by reclaiming and clarifying the epistemological underpinning in the works of three major women scholars as included in a doctoral seminar: Mary Parker Follett, Edith Penrose and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These notions are further redeployed for their potential in institutional applications. Findings At present, the findings are discursive – if they can be called so, but the main motivation behind this writing is to go beyond discourse in the written sense, and to mobilize other activities, still in the realm of epistemological and scholarly work. These activities would legitimize actual interventions for changing business schools from their current situation as neoliberal entities, which mute understanding of major problems in the world, as well as the voices of most humans and non-humans paying for the foibles of neoliberalism. Originality/value The paper demonstrates the necessity of developing approaches for interventions in knowledge producing institutions increasingly limited by neoliberal premises in what can be said and done as legitimate knowledge. In doing this, the paper articulates the importance of keeping history alive to avoid the increasing “forgetfulness” neoliberalization brings about. The paper, in its present form, represents an active act of “remembering”.

show abstract

Resisting Colonization in Business and Management Studies: From Postcolonialism to Decolonization

Cited by 11 publications

References 0 publications

Governance of Marwari capital: Daily living as a decolonial ‘matrix-of-praxis’ intermeshing commercial, religious and familial spheres

Governance of Marwari capital: Daily living as a decolonial ‘matrix-of-praxis’ intermeshing commercial, religious and familial spheres

The enemy within: The legitimating role of local managerial elites in the global managerial colonization of the Global South

Mute, mutation, and mutiny: on the work of feminist epistemology

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About