Decolonizing Management Knowledge and Education: Emerging themes in public debate and developing understanding of reflexive discomfort
This project by reviewing literature, interviewing activists and mapping decolonising initiatives is exploring meanings and actions for decolonising management knowledge and education.
Project overview
In the last decade, the field of Management and Organisation Studies has come under scrutiny for its strikingly westocentric – especially Anglo-American – aura. Research from different intellectual streams shows that management knowledge has been predominantly produced in and for North America and the United Kingdom, ignoring and/or silencing and/or degrading the lived realities, practices and thoughts of workers and organisations from the rest of the world. This project by reviewing literature, interviewing activists and mapping decolonising initiatives is exploring meanings and actions for decolonising management knowledge and education.
Outputs
Journal articles
Allen, S. & Girei, E. (2023). Developing Decolonial Reflexivity: Decolonizing Management Education by Confronting White-skin, White Identities and Whiteness, Academy of Management Learning and Education, https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2022.0387
Blogs
Allen, S. & Girei, E. (2023). How confronting ‘whiteness’ could help organisations. LSE Business Review, Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2023/10/30/how-confronting-whiteness-could-help-organisations/
Allen, S. & Girei, E. (2023). Confronting 'Whiteness' at Work to Improve Diversity Efforts. Academy of Management Insights, Available at: https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amle.2022.0387.summary
