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作者：Jack, Gavin A.; Calas, Marta B.; Nkomo, Stella M.; Peltonen, Tuomo
作者单位：University of Leicester; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of South Africa; University of Oulu
摘要：Since the early 1980s, scholars in organization and management studies have examined their metatheoretical assumptions with particular regard to the relationships among knowledge, power, and signification. In contrast, the international management field seems to have engaged in a continuous disavowal of epistemic reflexivity and a critical trajectory for theory development. The eight contributions in this special topic forum attempt to open up metatheoretical conversations with international m...
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作者：Levy, David L.
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston
摘要：I develop a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literature on global commodity chains and global production networks, on institutional entrepreneurship, and on neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views global production networks as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework offers insights into contested political and social issues, suc...
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作者：Oezkazanc-Pan, Banu
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要：I discuss the implications of postcolonial studies for examining and expanding the study of international management. First, I outline various debates and approaches within the postcolonial field. Following this. I summarize key theoretical concepts emanating from three seminal postcolonial scholars-Said, Spivak, and Bhabha-whose works have helped define the field. I rely on each of their lenses-Orientalism, gendered postcolonial subject, and hybridity, respectively-to discuss possibilities an...
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作者：Mahoney, Joseph T.; Van de Ven, Andrew H.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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作者：Frenkel, Michal
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：In this paper I use insights from postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha to analyze international management discourse on the cross-national transfer of knowledge and practices within the multinational corporation. Stressing the increasing importance of first world-third world geopolitical relations in shaping the transfer process, I apply Bhabha's epistemology of mimicry, hybridity, and the third space to offer an alternative understanding of the transfer process itself, the nature of the organizat...
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作者：Vaara, Eero; Tienari, Janne
作者单位：Aalto University
摘要：Few studies have examined legitimation in multinational corporations from a discursive perspective. To complement the existing institutional literature, we adopt a critical discourse analysis perspective that allows us to examine the microlevel processes of discursive legitimation. We provide an example of a media text-dealing with a production unit shutdown-to demonstrate how this perspective elucidates the various textual strategies used to legitimate multinational corporations' actions and ...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：I consider what effect technologically deterministic rhetoric might have on the process of technology implementation. I argue that deterministic discourse creates an ideological orientation toward technological change-a Discourse of inevitability-which makes the fundamentally indeterminate relationship between technology and culture appear determinate. The implications of the paper concern the need for researchers to take into account how institutionalized images of technology can be used disc...
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作者：Shenkar, Oded; Luo, Yadong; Yeheskel, Orly
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Miami; Reichman University
摘要：The cultural distance metaphor dominates international management research. promoting a sterile, detached view where static antecedents in the form of artificially constructed differences serve as the dominant Ions through which culture is viewed and its impact assessed. We examine culture and its positivist treatment in the foreign direct investment literature using the theoretical and real-world lenses. Adopting a social constructionist approach. we propose cultural friction as a substitute ...
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作者：Terlaak, Ann; Gong, Yan
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：We develop a model of inferential vicarious learning that explicates how firms can learn whether to adopt a practice whose value varies across organizations. We first theorize how firms can infer this variation from samples of adopters, nonadopters, abandoners, and nonabandoners. Surprisingly, incomplete samples may allow more accurate inferences than complete ones. We then propose how firms, equipped with an understanding of the variation, can select referent organizations that differ from th...
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