Introduction

False binaries in management history, and the scope for a postcolonial project

“…It is quite possible, for instance, to consider graduate programs that attend to poverty, sensitive to questions of racial justice, committed to socially more expansive and committed management curricula. In addition, to do so by relying on other histories, not only of those seeking to apply management knowledge but ignored in the dominant literature but also those eager to rewrite management ideas, that speak more directly to their realities, including the cosmologies of tribal communities resisting the seizing of their land and resources (de la Cadena, 2015), those pursuing anarchist visions of leadership and management (Parker et al , 2020; Srinivas, 2020) or studying the history of civil society in international development and its reliance on management ideas (Srinivas, 2021). However, it does require greater discussion in terms of claims larger than a debate concerned solely with whether history is interpretive or imagined, whether it is empirically valid or subjectively understood.…”

Collectivist Perspectives on Crony Capitalism

“…1 Drawing on the original (European) anarchist philosophy, it is possible to see alternative approaches to organising that avoid both state intervention and excessively powerful corporate actors. This is achieved through pursuing an economy of democratically operated worker-owned businesses (Graeber, 2007;Parker, Stoborod, & Swann, 2020).…”