Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement
This book takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: 'Could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations?' Employing the frameworks of postc
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Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement Edited by
Anshuman Prasad
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS : A CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT
Editorial matter and Selection © Anshuman Prasad, 2003. Individual Chapters © individual contributors, 2003. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2003 978-0-312-29405-2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-38767-0 ISBN 978-1-4039-8229-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781403982292 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Postcolonial theory and organizational analysis: a critical engagement/edited by Anshuman Prasad. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Postcolonialism. 2. Organization. 3. Organizational sociology. I. Prasad, Anshuman. JV51.P653 2003 325⬘.3—dc21
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March, 2003 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This book is for Bhabhi and Bhauji … with affection
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Notes on the Contributors
xi Part I
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Gaze of the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis Anshuman Prasad
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Part II Postcolonial Engagements with Management and Organization Theory Chapter 2 Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control 47 Raza A. Mir, Ali Mir, and Punya Upadhyaya Chapter 3 Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism 75 Bill Cooke Chapter 4 The Empire of Organizations and the Organization of Empires: Postcolonial Considerations on Theorizing Workplace Resistance 95 Anshuman Prasad and Pushkala Prasad Chapter 5 Decolonizing and Re-Presenting Culture’s Consequences: A Postcolonial Critique of Cross-Cultural Studies in Management 121 Dennis Kwek Part III
Current Issues and Empirical Investigations
Chapter 6 The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination Pushkala Prasad
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Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Reading the Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: Toward a Postdisciplinary Practice Esther Priyadharshini Accounting for the Banal: Financial Techniques as Softwares of Colonialism Dean Neu Asserting Possibilities of Resistance in the Cross-Cultura
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