🌏 While organizations work internationally and face global grand challenges, most top management knowledge comes from Western institutions, as Abhishek Nagaraj and Hongyu (Randol) Yao show in their upcoming publication. According to Aníbal Quijano, this bias results from the 'coloniality of knowledge', which favors Eurocentric ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies and shapes how insights are established.
💡 Thus, we must admit that how we produce knowledge in our discipline allows us to understand only the #MinorityWorld, neglecting social phenomena relevant to the #MajorityWorld. Literature on Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies (MOS) has addressed these issues and aimed to identify reasons for this bias.
💬 In the AOM Symposium in Chicago (11 August, 8 AM), we want to...
... take stock of this literature (Tapiwa Seremani, Sandiso Bazana),
... understand why this debate is important and what it entails (not) (Chahrazad Abdallah),
... give ideas on how to decolonize MOS when collecting data (Sneha Chrispal),
... discuss what aspects of our discipline require decolonization (Anupama Kondayya, Markus A. Höllerer)
... and take action as an academic community to change direction (Chintan Kella, Shaista E. Khilji, Leanne Hedberg, MBA, SPHR, PhD, Medina Williams & Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano
Organizers: Emamdeen Fohim & Michael Lounsbury
Discussants: Charlene Zietsma & Samer Abdelnour
❗Join us in Chicago and discuss with us on this important topic. No pre-registration is needed. Please find all the details in the attached flyer or via this link: https://cdmcd.co/5nWram
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Emamdeen Fohim
Post Doctorate Fellow
KPM Center for Public Management
University of Bern
Bern
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