Inequalities on the Move

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Ethical Commitment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Power Inequality ◽  
Work And Organizations ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Relations Of Power

This chapter focuses explicitly on inequalities to outline why and how they need much more attention in organizational research. The starting point of this chapter is examination of why ‘diversity work’ or practices to become more inclusive in organizations continues to be necessary in the context of multicultural societies. It then moves onto discuss power relations as relevant to the replication and emergence of inequalities in organizations, something that is not examined sufficiently in current scholarship on diversity and cross-cultural management. The chapter then moves on to outline how future diversity scholarship requires an ethical commitment to tracing the formation of multiscalar inequalities inclusive of organizational practices and policies that may be producing and/or replicating them. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the mobility turn in social sciences is not a celebratory one to suggest that everyone moves but rather, a serious engagement with the interrelated relations of power, inequality and dispossession taking shape in a multiscalar fashion as people move either out of choice, force or need in relation to work and organizations. In all, the chapter focuses on the relevance of inequality for scholarship on people and difference that span social fields in work contexts that span geographies.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Work And Organizations ◽  
Cross Cultural Management

The introduction provides the reader with a context for transnational migration studies and its importance for studying people, work and organizations today. Starting out referencing contemporary trends, such as Brexit, the election of Trump and general rise of anti-immigrant, righ-wing regimes globally, the introductory chapter lays the foundation for a transnational migration perspective. Key ideas from transnational migration studies, an interdisciplinary field born out of sociology, are explained and their relevance for theorizing and studying difference in the context of globally-mobile people made explicit. The chapter then outlines how existing approaches to the study of people and work under these new times and in the context of mobility has taken shape in the management, focusing explicitly on diversity and cross-cultural management areas. These two scholarly areas represent the dominant approach to the study of people and difference albeit there have been critical interjections into static notions of identity, place and work in these areas. Altogether, the introduction lays the foundation for the book in terms of the need for and importance of transnational migration studies as a much-needed theoretical approach for rethinking identity, difference and work in the diversity and cross-cultural management fields.

Mobile Methodologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Over Time

This chapter starts off by noting that transnational approaches contribute a multiscalar understanding and analysis of mobile subjectivities such that attending them to them requires moving beyond comparative lenses. To clarify, a transnational paradigm does not discount the importance of the nation-state but rather, holds is as a precarious achievement and construction made possible by discourses of difference and belonging. Yet the nation-state and thus, ‘cultural values’ as reflections of nation-states cannot be the starting point for an analysis that aims to understand subjectivities that move across scales and the specificity of experiences associated with mobile encounters. This chapter provides examples of work that can attend to these issues under the notion of “mobile methodologies”. Under this approach, researchers move with the research object/subject over time, place and space as needed to understand the assembling of transnational lives, experiences and practices. The chapter contrasts these approaches with existing works within diversity and cross-cultural management research that adopt comparative and static methods that are unable to attend to mobile subjects. In sum, the chapter offers critique and new directions for methodologies that can be used to study transnational subjects.

scholarly journals In praise of holistic scholarship: A collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110322
Author(s):  
Sarah Robinson ◽  
Alessia Contu ◽  
Carole Elliott ◽  
Suzanne Gagnon ◽  
Elena Antonacopoulou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Collective Representations

This collective essay was born out of a desire to honor and remember Professor Mark Easterby-Smith, a founder of the Management Learning community. To do this, we invited community members to share their experiences of working with Mark. The resulting narratives remember Mark as a co-author, co-researcher, project manager, conference organizer, research leader, PhD supervisor, and much more. The memories cover many different aspects of Mark’s academic spectrum: from evaluation to research methods to cross-cultural management, to dynamic capabilities, naming but a few. This space for remembrance however developed into a space of reflection and conceptualization. Inspired by the range and extent of Mark’s interests, skills, experiences, and personal qualities, this essay became conceptual as well as personal as we turned the spotlight on academic careers and consider alternative paths for Management Learning scholarship today. Using the collective representations of Mark’s career as a starting point, we develop, the concept of holistic scholarship, which embraces certain attitudes and orientations in navigating the dialectical spaces and transcending tensions in academic life. We reflect on how such holistic scholarship can be practised in our contemporary and challenging times and what inspiration and lessons we can draw from Mark’s legacy.

Cross-Cultural Management of the European Textile and Clothing Industries

2017 ◽  
pp. 239-260
Author(s):  
Radostina A. Angelova
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Different Levels

The European textile and clothing industries are among the best examples for global level business. The communication between people with different customs and cultures, which occupy different levels of the hierarchy in any company, requires cross-cultural competence and management abilities. The aim of the present chapter is to apply Hofstede's model and its national cultural dimensions to show its applicability in the cross-cultural management of the European textile and clothing industries. Hofstede's cultural dimensions could be a very important starting point for the managers at all levels of the companies' organizations as they give important knowledge of organizational responsibilities, job satisfaction, the interrelationship between workers and managers, communication style, leaderships and possible conflicts.

Beyond possession and competition

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudine Gaibrois ◽  
Chris Steyaert
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Cross Cultural Management

This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international business, the article suggests that a further conceptual development of power is needed to study multilingual organizations and their “politics.” Inspired by the writings of Michel Foucault, it aims at developing a differentiated notion of power that allows moving beyond possessive, competitive, and limitation-oriented understandings. It investigates power from a discursive perspective and thus suggests conceptualizing power as an effect of speaking acts. From this point of view, people contribute to the creation of power relations by adopting a multiplicity of subject positions when they talk about their and others’ experiences in multilingual organizations. These processes were empirically investigated by conducting a qualitative case study of a multinational company located in Switzerland. The findings show a variety of subject positions for members of multilingual organizations, ranging from “winners on the rhetorical battlefield” to “helpers paving unskilled speakers the way.” While being in the position of the “battle winner” means discursively constructing competitive power relations, being a “helper” entails the discursive construction of cooperation-oriented power relations. Adopting a discursive approach thus allows to move the focus from “having”/“not having” power and from conflicts to a broader perspective on power relations. Power is then considered as productive in a general sense, and this productivity might engender competition as well as cooperation.

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Management of the European Textile and Clothing Industries

2017 ◽  
pp. 386-407
Author(s):  
Radostina A. Angelova
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Different Levels

The European textile and clothing industries are among the best examples for global level business. The communication between people with different customs and cultures, which occupy different levels of the hierarchy in any company, requires cross-cultural competence and management abilities. The aim of the present chapter is to apply Hofstede's model and its national cultural dimensions to show its applicability in the cross-cultural management of the European textile and clothing industries. Hofstede's cultural dimensions could be a very important starting point for the managers at all levels of the companies' organizations as they give important knowledge of organizational responsibilities, job satisfaction, the interrelationship between workers and managers, communication style, leaderships and possible conflicts.

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