AOM 2013
Unlocking Postcolonial Perspectives in International Business and Management
(sponsored by IM and CMS divisions)
WDW Yacht & Beach Club Resort: Asbury D
Monday, Aug. 12 @ 8:00AM – 9:30AM
Scholars widely acknowledge that business activity and education have profound impacts on a multitude of stakeholders in both the formal and informal sectors. To address concerns that the voices and interests of many of these actors remain unrepresented or even suppressed requires reflexivity and disclosure of the underlying assumptions and motives of scholars' research agendas, both of which have been found lacking in the fields of international business and management (e.g. Jack, Calás, Nkomo and Peltonen, 2008).
Panelists Banu Özkazanç-Pan (U. Mass. Boston), Bobby Banerjee (City U. London), Gavin Jack (Latrobe U.) and Mohan Subramaniam (Boston College) provide postcolonial interpretations on research and teaching in international business and management, as a means of unlocking the potential of a more expansive and inclusive reconceptualization of these scholarly fields.
The goals of this symposium are first to reignite and increase interest in a critical, postcolonial examination of the theory and teaching of international business and management, and second to provide directions for developing new theory, more inclusive of the direct and collateral effects of international business. Our overarching objective is to establish that, through unlocking postcolonial discourse, scholarly research on international business and management has an opportunity to broaden and more clearly distinguish its unique mission and identity.