Postcolonialism and the Politics of Qualitative Research in International Business
This paper offers a re-configuration of international business research by subjecting it to a postcolonial critique. This critique sees international business research as exhibiting continuities with the colonial project in the way it appropriates the Other. Qualitative research in international bus...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Management international review 2006, Vol.46 (4), p.481-501 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper offers a re-configuration of international business research by subjecting it to a postcolonial critique. This critique sees international business research as exhibiting continuities with the colonial project in the way it appropriates the Other. Qualitative research in international business often reproduces a neopositivist separation of theory and method, which can marginalize discussion of the important ontological, epistemological and political issues inherent in any research process. |
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ISSN: | 0938-8249 1861-8901 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11575-006-0102-x |