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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-05-2007
DOI: 10.1108/17422040710744962
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a selection of responses to the report Fashion Victims , published by War on Want in December 2006. It offers a range of viewpoints presented by members of the Editorial Advisory Board of CPOIB . These are presented in chronological order of submission. There is some cross‐reference by contributors to the work of others, but no attempt is made to present a unified argument. Presents the full contributions of involved participants, without mediation or editorial change. A number of different perspectives are presented on the central issue that is summarised by the opening heading in War on Want's report – “How cheap is too cheap?” It is seen that the answer to this question is very much dependent upon the standpoint of the respondent. In presenting this form of commentary, members of the CPOIB Editorial Board seek to stimulate debate about an issue of concern to contemporary society, without resort to the time delay and mediating processes of peer‐review normally attached to academic writing. It is hoped that this discussion will provoke further contributions and a widening of the debate.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2006
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 25-10-2011
DOI: 10.1108/17422041111180755
Abstract: The purpose of this extended editorial is to reflect on the journey of critical perspectives on international business over the past seven years and to look forward to future issues and potential concerns of the journal. In addition, the contents of the current issue are introduced. Using the form of a conversation between the journal's co‐editors, the development of the journal and features of its content over the last seven years are discussed, and related to the ever changing external context. The current trends and concerns emerging in the field of international business are used to speculate on the future direction of the journal and its prospective content. By tracing key points and features of the development of the journal over the past seven years, this paper identifies a growing need for critique of international business in all its various forms, and, especially from inter, multi and trans‐disciplinary perspectives. This is the first attempt to evaluate critical perspectives on international business . As such, it offers a foundation from which to speculate on the future development of both the journal and the field of critical studies on international business.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 25-02-2014
DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-09-2013-0031
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the origins of CPoIB and on events in the IB sphere over the decade since it was conceived. – The approach of the paper is one of personal critical reflection on events and their implications for the full range of involved and affected parties, informed by Aristotelian philosophy. – The author posits the need for a new generation of “academic activists” in support of a humanistic management manifesto. – The paper reinforces the philosophy of CPoIB and the need for its continuing growth and development.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-09-2012-0043
Abstract: – This paper aims to discuss the discourse of globalisation and its implications in the case of state-owned jute mills (SOJMs) in the post-colonial state of Bangladesh. – The authors draw upon a critical debate on the concept of globalisation and critical political economy to revisit the country’s historical, political, social and cultural construction to discuss conditions of its conformity within the global order. Additionally, the perspective of subaltern studies underpins discussion of the context of the post-colonial state. – A schematic analysis of the context surfaces issues that underpin the process of “truth production” and that have contributed to global integration of the Bangladesh economy. We consider how this discourse benefits some people, while over time, the majority are dislocated, excluded and deprived. Hence, this discourse denotes a territorial power of globalism that leads us to conceptualise Bangladesh as a neo-colonial state. – Through a case study of SOJMs, this paper contributes to discussion on the essence and implications of the globalisation discourse and on how its methods and techniques reinforce hegemony in the name of development and sustainability in the forms of liberalisation, democratisation and good governance in a state like Bangladesh.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-08-2007
DOI: 10.1108/17422040710775030
Abstract: This paper, first, seeks to bring a discussion of the ship‐breaking industry of Bangladesh and other “less developed economies” (LDEs) into the academic arena, since almost no mention of it can be found in a journal database search. Second, in engaging with the multiple representations of the industry in a range of other media, from government and NGO documents, television and press reports, to photography and books, it seeks to contribute to discourse which considers the multiple stories of, amongst others, ship owners, environmentalists, journalists, photographers and, not least, those whose lives and work are the subject of others' observation – the ship‐breakers themselves. Third, it seeks to challenge a particular hegemonic “developed world” analysis of what is “good” and “bad” in relation to the industry. This study is based upon alternative readings of secondary data, drawn from textual, photographic and video sources, in order to offer a range of interpretations. From these multiple engagements, the paper seeks to show the complexity and ambiguity of the lives of those involved, and that their situation cannot be assessed by application of “developed” world notions of ethics, environmentalism, and “good” and “bad”. From this, it argues in support of ambivalence – as a contextual concern, rather than as apathy – as a necessary approach to analysis. Attention is drawn to the lack of academic engagement with an industry which is of key economic importance to developing economies like those of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, but is attacked as immoral and dangerous by developed country NGOs. The author considers the framework of (or lack of) international governance which enables its continuance in the face of this opposition.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-03-2015
Abstract: This article discusses the experience of economic inequality of badli workers in the state-owned jute mills of the postcolonial state of Bangladesh, and how this inequality is constituted and perpetuated. Nominally appointed to fill posts during the temporary absence of permanent workers, the reality of badli workers’ employment is very different. They define themselves as ‘a different category of workers’, with limited economic entitlements. We undertake content analysis of the badli workers’ narratives to identify elements that they themselves consider constitute these economic entitlements. We consider their perceptions of discrimination and exclusion and explain how, in response to these feelings, they construct their survival strategy. From this, through the writings of Armatya Sen, we discuss the badli workers’ contextual experience and understanding of economic inequality in relation to extant theoretical understandings, seeking to contribute to the field and to empirical studies in the subaltern context.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-05-2008
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-2005
DOI: 10.1108/17422040510629746
Abstract: Aims to discuss the relationship between the recent G8 summit of 2005, held at Gleneagles, Scotland, and events occurring around the same time in the world of academe and in the global media. Draws upon personal experience and interpretation in order to raise issues for critical discussion and reflection, in relation to the impact and effectiveness of resistance movements within academe, activist counter‐movements, and in society at large. It is argued that high‐profile media presentations of “big wins” and of major change to “first world” policy in relation to “third world” poverty and development mask a situation of no real change to structural factors of global economics and political power, and that this is an area which should be addressed by the academic community. Discusses issues of contemporary relevance, and seeks to stimulate further debate and discourse in the academic arena.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2002
DOI: 10.1177/0018726702055007541
Abstract: This article is intended to contribute to debate on the arguments that are propounded both in support and in condemnation of new forms of workplace aesthetic. I draw upon experience in organizational intervention and on literature from the arenas of physical and social workplace design to support a multi-contextual debate on the new workplace aesthetic and on interpretations that are placed upon it within different contexts of study. While an essential tension of freedom and control is identified in the literature, I offer no conclusion in support or in condemnation of any particular viewpoint. Rather, I argue for a multi-perspective analysis of workplace aesthetic in order to surface meaning for different groups of actors within their own context of thinking/acting. From this, general theories for analysis of other situations may be derived rather than particular models or recipes for application.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-05-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2009
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-10-2012-0049
Abstract: – This paper aims to critically engage with the premise of development at the “bottom of the pyramid” through consideration of the current and potential future status of the workers who dismantle end-of-life ships in the breaking yards of “less developed countries”, here with specific reference to the dynamic situation in Bangladesh. – The study applies “critical scenario method” (CSM) to explore different possible and plausible futures for the ship-breaking industry globally and locally. – The paper argues that the status of the workers in the ship-breaking industry of Bangladesh can be conceptualised as firmly set at the “bottom of the pyramid”, and that, for most if not all, this situation cannot be changed within any industry future without wider, radical change to socioeconomic and political structures both in the country and globally. – This paper offers a contribution to the discourse on consumption at the “bottom of the pyramid” as a development process.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-09-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-06-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-09-2015
Abstract: In this article, we engage empirically with the biopolitical nature of pedagogic practice in critical management education. We do so through considering the effects of employing literary fiction in an introductory management and organization module taught to master’s degree students in a UK business school. We see the deployment of fictional literature in teaching as a way of consciously intervening in this biopolitical predicament. By urging students to work with fictional literature that has been part of their personal past, we encourage them to develop a ‘care of the self’. In the analysis, we first discuss the pedagogic process of the module, reflecting on our own presumptions and behaviours. Second, on the basis of students’ assignments, we analyse the outcome of their learning. In the concluding discussion, we argue that the fact that critical management education is already biopolitical does not preclude the possibility for it to renew educational practice. We suggest that as a result of the potential for creative self-formation offered by the use of literary fiction, transformation of both students and educators is possible.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-06-2009
Abstract: In this article, we contribute to debate on the possibilities and role of critical pedagogy in management education, with particular reference to the field of international business (IB). We engage with what we see as a focus on reproducing extant models of IB practice in the canon of IB textbooks. In these texts, we identify a concentration upon multinational enterprises (MNEs) and MNE managers as the key actors in IB, with a prioritization of their interests and marginalization of those of other involved and affected parties. In seeking to critically engage with these texts in the classroom context, we propose the need for a constructive critical pedagogy and posit the possibilities for this through application of contemporary interpretation of the concept of phronēsis .
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-2005
DOI: 10.1108/17422040510577898
Abstract: To contribute to critical discussion of management education and practice in the “global economy”, engaging with fragmentation of subjects in the academic literature and of issues across zones of production and consumption in the global community. In order to highlight key elements, discusses the role and contribution of the transnational corporation (TNC) and of the export processing zone (EPZ), as illustrative ex les of international business. Places the discussion into a broad context, through consideration of social, political and economic implications of international business. Presents and contrasts representations of international business in various literature sets and in different contexts. Draws loosely on a broad range of literature, from the field of critical management, and from both academic and non‐academic domains that engage with issues of international business and globalization. Proposes that fragmentation within the mainstream management literature and in areas of management education militates against holistic and critical understanding of the complex nature of global business. Challenges exemplars of “good” management practice from the managerial literature through engagement with a range of discipline‐specific texts, highlighting areas of ergence, contradiction and omission. Contributes to the developing critical management literature that engages with issues in a broad societal context.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-06-2020
DOI: 10.1002/FFO2.34
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 17-02-2017
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 31-07-2009
DOI: 10.1108/17422040910974712
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to prompt critical reflection on the relationship between international business (IB) and climate change by reference to an ex le at the margins of IB. The author reflects on personal experience of attending the Australian Grand Prix. Being heavily involved, with others, in research into the social, environmental and economic impacts of climate change in Australia and across Asia Pacific he has reason to be personally reflective on the environmental impacts of Formula 1 and other forms of motor sport. These impacts are both direct, in relation to the racing cars' energy consumption and emissions, and indirect, with regard to spectator, sponsor and support show contributions to carbon emissions. The study is based on personal reflection on experienced events, critical consideration of the discourse of Formula 1 emanating from the organizations involved and associated with it, and consideration of criticism of motor sport as anathema. Reflecting on the nature and impact of Formula 1 racing and its associated events, and on different possible responses to its negative impact on climate and environment, the paper considers internal initiatives to change the nature of its resource consumption. However, the paper also sees that these changes may be largely symbolic within a global business framework in which such moves represent mere “tinkering at the edges” of a major problem to which there is no real solution under current and foreseeable socio‐economic conditions. In considering various options for “greening” Formula 1, including current projects to reduce its resource inputs and emissions outputs to the extreme of banning it – and similar activities – outright, the paper ponders the (im)possibility of “greening” any organization that is embedded in resource consumption.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-12-2019
DOI: 10.1002/FFO2.10
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-03-2021
DOI: 10.1002/FFO2.76
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $485,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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