Laurence Romani, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Keywords
cross-cultural management, critical studies
Abstract
Laurence will offer a short introduction to critical cross-cultural management (CCM) studies, that is, CCM research that pays attention to the various ways in which power relations permeate intercultural interactions and their management. She first presents a few key features of these studies, in their meta-theoretical positioning in the sociology of radical change and an agenda of de-naturalization, and in their methods. With examples from three major streams of studies in critical CCM (namely interpretivist studies adopting a critical agenda, Marxist analyses, and postcolonial studies), Laurence will highlight distinctive contributions from the critical CCM stream of research to the broader field of CCM.