Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies: Why, How, and What

Literature on decolonizing management and organization (MOS) studies has become a hot topic in our discipline (i.e., Allen & Girei, 2023; Pal et al., 2022; Yousfi, 2021). As scholars have recognized a Western-centric bias, fostering one-sided knowledge outputs incommensurate with other cultural contexts (Banerjee, 2021; Filatotchev et al., 2021), there has been an increased call to enhance indigenous theorizing (Bothello et al., 2019; Bruton et al., 2021; Salmon et al., 2023). However, decolonizing our discipline is more than overcoming a so-called WEIRD bias – the narrow research focus on and with actors from countries with a Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic background (Henrich et al., 2010). Instead, decolonizing MOS requires serious “emancipatory” steps to overcome institutional hurdles that hamper the heterogenization of knowledge creation (Banerjee, 2021). Further reflections and new solutions on the setup of journals (Barros & Alcadipani, 2022; Zoogah et al., forthcoming), international conferences (Kondayya et al., forthcoming), or business schools (Woods et al., 2022) are needed to include previously unheard voices in the mainstream literature. What decolonizing means in academia and what it is not is thus a topic that concerns all management scholars (Abdelnour, 2022). Particularly if we take our call seriously to create knowledge for addressing current and future grand challenges (George et al., 2016; Kunisch et al., 2023). Spaces for voices and theories on sustainable solutions beyond Western Enlightenment ideals are thus needed (Banerjee & Arjaliès, 2021). Hence, decolonizing MOS requires profound and deepened reflections from different viewpoints: i) taking stock of existing literature on the topic to identify unaddressed gaps, ii) establishing a common understanding of why to decolonize our discipline, iii) creating ideas of how to do this as an individual scholar in the broader system of knowledge creation, iv) reflect on what institutions in which areas of academia need to be reimagined, v) and finally launch initiatives and start actions (beyond writing about the topic) that can seriously impact and change our academic world. The presenter symposium wants to shed light on these issues through the presentation and subsequent discussion of five articles. Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies - Why, How, and What Author: Emamdeen Fohim; U. of Bern Author: Michael Lounsbury; U. of Alberta Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies: Taking Stock and Looking Forward Author: Tapiwa Winston Seremani; IESEG School of Management, France Author: Sandiso Bazana; Grenoble Ecole de Management ‘Within and Against’: : Decolonizing as Radical Refusal Author: Chahrazad Abdallah; U. du Québec à Montréal “They” Are Speaking, But Are We Listening? Epistemic Violence in the Pursuit of Organization Studies Author: Snehanjali Chrispal; - Matauranga Maori: Incorporating Indigenous Maori Knowledge in a Business School Curriculum Author: Ella Henry; Auckland U. of Technology A Charta of Principles, Rights, and Responsibilities Author: Chintan Kella; Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Managem Author: Medina Williams; Purdue U., West Lafayette Author: Shaista Ehsan Khilji; George Washington U. Author: Leanne Mara Hedberg; MacEwan U., Edmonton, Alberta Author: Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano; U. of Helsinki

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