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Introduction To Special Topic Forum

Critique and International Management: an Uneasy Relationship?

    Published Online:1 Oct 2008https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.34421991

    Abstract

    Since the early 1980s, scholars in organization and management studies have examined their metatheoretical assumptions with particular regard to the relationships among knowledge, power, and signification. In contrast, the international management field seems to have engaged in a continuous disavowal of epistemic reflexivity and a critical trajectory for theory development. The eight contributions in this special topic forum attempt to open up metatheoretical conversations with international management. This task requires a reflexive reexamination of what we already know and a commitment to bring others' voices into an ongoing rewriting of the field.

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