Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement

PART I: INTRODUCTION The Gaze of the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis; A.Prasad PART II: POSTCOLONIAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control; R.A.Mir, A.Mir & P.Upadhyaya Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism; B.Cooke The Empire of Organizations and the Organization of Empires: Postcolonial Considerations on Theorizing Workplace Resistance; A.Prasad & P.Prasad Decolonizing and Re-Presenting Culture's Consequences: A Postcolonial Critique of Cross-Cultural Studies in Management; D.Kwek PART III: CURRENT ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination; P.Prasad Reading the Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: Towards a Postdisciplinary Practice; E.Priyadharshini Accounting for the Banal: Financial Techniques as Softwares of Colonialism; D.Neu Asserting Possibilities of Resistance in the Cross-Cultural Teaching Machine: Re-Viewing Videos of Others; G.Jack & A.Lorbiecki From the Colonial Enterprise to Enterprise Systems: Parallels between Colonization and Globalization; A.Gopal, R.Wills & Y.Gopal The Practice of Stakeholder Colonialism: National Interest and Colonial Discourses in the Management of Indigenous Stakeholders; S.B.Bannerjee PART IV: CONCLUSION The Postcolonial Imagination; A.Prasad & P.Prasad