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AOM Symposium "Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies"

  • 1.  AOM Symposium "Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies"

    Posted 07-31-2024 23:30
    Dear ONE colleagues and friends,
    Please join us at this symposium in Chicago on Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies, relating to an upcoming volume in Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
    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 equally shapes how insights are established by favoring Eurocentric ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies.

    Thus, we must admit that the way 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, 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 via this link: https://cdmcd.co/5nWram

    Best regards,

    Dr Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano

    Department of Economics and Management

    University of Helsinki



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    Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano
    Post Doctorate Fellow
    University of Helsinki
    Helsinki
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