Abstract
Purpose - Submitted in the form of a manifesto, this article seeks to make a call to scholars in international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to provide an interrogation of the ontological, epistemological, methodological and institutional resources currently dominating the field. Design/methodology/approach - A manifesto approach is adopted in providing a series of deliberately provocative principles which it seeks to have the field adopt. Findings - The paper finds the field to be currently imprisoned within a limited and limiting paradigmatic and institutional location and offers the resources of post-colonial theory as a way to interrogate and reconfigure it. Research limitations/implications - The paper points to the limitations of the field and provides the grounds for a radical reconfiguration across all aspects of its knowledge production, dissemination and research practice. Practical implications - The paper offers practical steps which the field can take to reconfigure itself more appropriately in terms of its various research commitments and its institutional frame. Originality/value - This article offers an original assessment of the orthodoxy currently controlling and disciplining the field, presented in the relatively novel and challenging form of a manifesto.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 246-265 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Critical Perspectives on International Business |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Culture
- Epistemology
- International business
- Knowledge based management systems
- Research methods