Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations

Edited by Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Professor of Management, Cass Business School, City University London, UK, Vanessa C.M. Chio, former Associate Professor, University of Washington Tacoma, US and Raza Mir, Associate Professor, William Paterson University, US

• Contents:Part I: INTRODUCTION1. The Imperial Formations of GlobalizationSubhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Vanessa C.M. Chio and Raza MirPART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE AND THE REINVENTION OF NATURE 2. On ‘Cultural’ Knowledge in International Management Textbooks: A Postcolonial ReadingMartin Fougère and Agneta Moulettes3. Sustainable Development in the Age of Natural Capitalism: Making the World While Saving ProfitsMartin Fougère and Nikodemus SolitanderPART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE4. Contesting Boundaries: The Shifting Borders of GlobalizationDiana J. Wong-MingJi5. (How) Does Knowledge Flow? A Critical Analysis of Intra-Organization Knowledge TransferRaza Mir, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Ali Mir6. Evangelical Capitalism and OrganizationAbbas J. AliPART IV: POWER, SUBJECTS/SUBJECTIVITIES AND IDENTITY7. Flexible Careers in a Globally Flexible Market Suzette Dyer8. Cultural Mimicry and Hybridity: On the Work of Identity in International Call Centers in IndiaDiya Das and Ravi Dharwadkar9. Globalization and Social Change: The Polish ExperienceMartyna SliwaPART V: CONCLUSION10. Towards an Anthropology of GlobalizationVanessa C.M. Chio and Subhabrata Bobby BanerjeeIndex

'This edited collection is an extraordinarily welcome text for those of us teaching international management in the US while observing with dismay the lack of critical awareness about the rest of the world in extant disciplinary scholarship. Rather than giving us "the view from the rest", the collection advances a temporal and spatial relational approach to understanding globalization and compels its audience to bridge the gap between "the west and the rest" by bringing to visibility the cultural and material encounters co-constructing them. In this context, the various contributions deconstruct "international management" as market-based activity, exposing its mode of existence within complex power relations networks extending over time and space.'