Postcolonial Studies

Some of my papers interrogating management and organisation studies through postcolonialism:

Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading. Under contract, Basingstoke: Palgrave, due for publication 2009.

Westwood, R.I. ‘Postcolonial Theory’ forthcoming in S. Clegg & J.R. Bailey (eds) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008.

Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. “The US commercial-military-political complex and the emergence of International Business and Management Studies,  Critical Perspectives on International Business. 4. 2008

Rhodes, C. & Westwood, R.I. ‘Letting Knowledge Go: Ethics and Representation of the Other in International and Cross-Cultural Management’, Ch. 5 in C. Carter, S.R. Clegg, M. Kornberger, S. Laske & M. Messner (eds.) Business Ethics as practice: Representation, Reflexivity and Performance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. “Manifesto for a Postcolonial International Business and Management Studies: A Provocation.” Critical Perspectives on International Business, 3(3): 246-265, 2007.

Westwood, R.I. “International Business and Management Studies as an Orientalist Discourse: A Postcolonial Critique”, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2(2): 91-113, 2006.

Jack, G. & Westwood, R.I  “Postcolonialism and the Politics of Qualitative Research in International Business”, Management International Review, 46(4): 481. 2006.

Westwood, R.I. “Shiny, happy people or Eros rampant: Re-configuring motivation theory?” In D. Boje, J. Brewis, S. Linstead and A. O’Shea (eds.). The Passion of Organising. (pp. 35-64) Copenhagen/Oslo: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.

Westwood, R.I. “Towards a Post-Colonial Research Paradigm in International Business and Comparative Management”. R. Marschan-Piekkari and C. Welch (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business, pp. 56-83, Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004.

Westwood, R.I. “Appropriating the ‘Other’ in the Discourses of Comparative Management”. In Westwood, R.I. and Linstead, S. (eds) The Language of Organisation. (pp.241-282). London: Sage. 2001.