Critical international management and international critical management

Annotation

Although labelled as "international", the academic production in the fields of International Business (IB) and International Management (IM) tends to be dominated by ideas generated by Western academics that are located in Universities, Business Schools and academic departments placed in the 'centre', rather than at the 'periphery'. Moreover, there is also the naturalization of the private (multinational) company as the paradigmatic organization to be analysed, understood and researched. With this e-book we seek to broaden the reach and scope of critical studies of IB, bringing consideration of forms of business and contexts beyond the mainstream, and giving voice to those who are by and large excluded. The papers challenge the parochial status of IM and IB and indicate that other organizational forms are worth considering in our field of inquiry.