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Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations
Towards an Anthropology of Globalization
9781848443174 Edward Elgar Publishing
This authoritative book explores the nexus between organization theory, globalization and imperialism and examines the effects of a global order organized around development and markets.
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This authoritative book explores the nexus between organization theory, globalization and imperialism and examines the effects of a global order organized around development and markets.
The authors explore how interconnections between organization theory and the global political economy have led to the perpetuation of inequality and active reconfigurations of life, labour and the economy. They contend that cultural ethnocentrism and Western ideologies of development continue to inform the field of organizational studies and offer an alternate mode of theorizing. Through theoretical and empirical reflections, the authors produce a patchwork quilt of innovatively critical approaches to globalization.
Graduate students, academics and scholars in the fields of management and organizational sciences, as well as postcolonial, development and globalization studies will find this book of particular interest. It is also an invaluable read for international management and strategy scholars, including those focused on multinational operations in the Third World.
The authors explore how interconnections between organization theory and the global political economy have led to the perpetuation of inequality and active reconfigurations of life, labour and the economy. They contend that cultural ethnocentrism and Western ideologies of development continue to inform the field of organizational studies and offer an alternate mode of theorizing. Through theoretical and empirical reflections, the authors produce a patchwork quilt of innovatively critical approaches to globalization.
Graduate students, academics and scholars in the fields of management and organizational sciences, as well as postcolonial, development and globalization studies will find this book of particular interest. It is also an invaluable read for international management and strategy scholars, including those focused on multinational operations in the Third World.
Critical Acclaim
‘This edited collection is an extraordinarily welcome text for those of us teaching international management in the US while observing with dismay the lack of critical awareness about the rest of the world in extant disciplinary scholarship. Rather than giving us “the view from the rest”, the collection advances a temporal and spatial relational approach to understanding globalization and compels its audience to bridge the gap between “the west and the rest” by bringing to visibility the cultural and material encounters co-constructing them. In this context, the various contributions deconstruct “international management” as market-based activity, exposing its mode of existence within complex power relations networks extending over time and space.’
– Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts, US
‘Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations offers a set of innovative critiques of contemporary economic globalization. A major theme of the book is that our imperialist histories have resulted in a globalization process that replicates exploitative colonialist patterns. Chapter authors provide insights on a variety of subjects, including a critique of mainstream international management textbooks and the simplistic toolkits they offer to managers; an analysis of how a universalistic view of capitalism and economic organization results in exploitative patterns of resource appropriation; and documentation of the negative consequences of globalization, specifically, patterns of inequality and class segregation.’
– Alison M. Konrad, University of Western Ontario, Canada
– Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts, US
‘Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations offers a set of innovative critiques of contemporary economic globalization. A major theme of the book is that our imperialist histories have resulted in a globalization process that replicates exploitative colonialist patterns. Chapter authors provide insights on a variety of subjects, including a critique of mainstream international management textbooks and the simplistic toolkits they offer to managers; an analysis of how a universalistic view of capitalism and economic organization results in exploitative patterns of resource appropriation; and documentation of the negative consequences of globalization, specifically, patterns of inequality and class segregation.’
– Alison M. Konrad, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Contributors
Contributors: A.J. Ali, S.B. Banerjee, V.C.M. Chio, D. Das, R. Dharwadkar, S. Dyer, M. Fougère, A. Mir, R. Mir, A. Moulettes, M. Sliwa, N. Solitander, D.J. Wong-MingJi
Contents
Contents:
Part I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Imperial Formations of Globalization
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Vanessa C.M. Chio and Raza Mir
PART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE AND THE REINVENTION OF NATURE
2. On ‘Cultural’ Knowledge in International Management Textbooks: A Postcolonial Reading
Martin Fougère and Agneta Moulettes
3. Sustainable Development in the Age of Natural Capitalism: Making the World While Saving Profits
Martin Fougère and Nikodemus Solitander
PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE
4. Contesting Boundaries: The Shifting Borders of Globalization
Diana J. Wong-MingJi
5. (How) Does Knowledge Flow? A Critical Analysis of Intra-Organization Knowledge Transfer
Raza Mir, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Ali Mir
6. Evangelical Capitalism and Organization
Abbas J. Ali
PART IV: POWER, SUBJECTS/SUBJECTIVITIES AND IDENTITY
7. Flexible Careers in a Globally Flexible Market
Suzette Dyer
8. Cultural Mimicry and Hybridity: On the Work of Identity in International Call Centers in India
Diya Das and Ravi Dharwadkar
9. Globalization and Social Change: The Polish Experience
Martyna Sliwa
PART V: CONCLUSION
10. Towards an Anthropology of Globalization
Vanessa C.M. Chio and Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
Index
Part I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Imperial Formations of Globalization
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Vanessa C.M. Chio and Raza Mir
PART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE AND THE REINVENTION OF NATURE
2. On ‘Cultural’ Knowledge in International Management Textbooks: A Postcolonial Reading
Martin Fougère and Agneta Moulettes
3. Sustainable Development in the Age of Natural Capitalism: Making the World While Saving Profits
Martin Fougère and Nikodemus Solitander
PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE
4. Contesting Boundaries: The Shifting Borders of Globalization
Diana J. Wong-MingJi
5. (How) Does Knowledge Flow? A Critical Analysis of Intra-Organization Knowledge Transfer
Raza Mir, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Ali Mir
6. Evangelical Capitalism and Organization
Abbas J. Ali
PART IV: POWER, SUBJECTS/SUBJECTIVITIES AND IDENTITY
7. Flexible Careers in a Globally Flexible Market
Suzette Dyer
8. Cultural Mimicry and Hybridity: On the Work of Identity in International Call Centers in India
Diya Das and Ravi Dharwadkar
9. Globalization and Social Change: The Polish Experience
Martyna Sliwa
PART V: CONCLUSION
10. Towards an Anthropology of Globalization
Vanessa C.M. Chio and Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
Index
