Resisting colonization in business and management studies: from postcolonialism to decolonization

Alia Weston; J. Miguel Imas

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Resisting colonization in business and management studies: from postcolonialism to decolonization

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Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, two oceans at once. Were the natives blind? Who first gave names to corn and potatoes and tomatoes and chocolate and the mountains and rivers of America? Hernán Cortés? Francisco Pizarro? Were the natives mute? The Pilgrims on the Mayflower heard Him: God said America was the Promised Land. Were the natives deaf? Later on, the grandchildren of the Pilgrims seized the name and everything else. Now they are the Americans. And those of us who live in the other Americas, who ...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The SAGE handbook of qualitative business and management research methods
Editors	Catherine Cassell, Ann L. Cunliffe, Gina Grandy
Place of Publication	London, U.K.
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd
Pages	119-135
ISBN (Print)	9781526429261
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526430212.n8
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Impact: …We position this chapter as an invitation to whoever is interested in gaining a broad understanding of postcolonialism and associated ideas, how these ideas have developed across business and management, and what constitutes appropriate and inappropriate research methods in this area of study.

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Resisting colonization in business and management studies: from postcolonialism to decolonization. / Weston, Alia; Imas, J. Miguel.
The SAGE handbook of qualitative business and management research methods. ed. / Catherine Cassell; Ann L. Cunliffe; Gina Grandy. London, U.K.: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018. p. 119-135.

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Resisting colonization in business and management studies: from postcolonialism to decolonization

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