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‘World-class’ fantasies: A neocolonial analysis of international branch campuses:

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The authors explored how the "world-class" discourse as an ideology and a fantasy structures neocolonial relations in intern... and built on postcolonial studies and discourse analytical research exploring how the 'worldclass' discourse as ideology and fantasy structure neocolony relations in the US.
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In this article, we build on postcolonial studies and discourse analytical research exploring how the ‘world-class’ discourse as an ideology and a fantasy structures neocolonial relations in intern...

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Rethinking Hybridity in Postcolonial Contexts: What Changes and What Persists? The Tunisian case of Poulina's managers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of adopting a contextualized approach to hybridization processes that, first, takes into account the historical and cultural contexts from which hybridity emerges and, second, helps to identify the elements that change as well as those that persist when western management practices are imported into developing countries.
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Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds:

TL;DR: In this article, a special issue (SI) editorial contributes to ongoing efforts worldwide to decolonise management and organisational knowledge (MOK), and a robust pluriversal discussion on the how and why of decolonization is presented.
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The Positioning and Competitive Strategies of Higher Education Institutions in the United Arab Emirates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) position themselves and compete with one another, and used hierarchical cluster analysis to identify strategic groups and institutional competitive strategies in the UAE higher education market.
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Workplace emotions in postcolonial spaces: Enduring legacies, ambivalence, and subversion

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the emotions of work in postcolonial spaces, where enduring racial tensions, arising from white privilege, continue to shape people's experiences, and applied a postcolonial perspective to illustrate that colonial dynamics and attendant power relations are daily reproduced or subverted at work.
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Identities and Identifications in Organizations Dynamics of Antipathy, Deadlock, and Alliance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the dynamics of identity formation in organizations, with a particular focus on the development of antipathies and deadlocks, by engaging a well-regarded study of identity in organizations.
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Is There Any Future for Critical Management Studies in Latin America? Moving from Epistemic Coloniality to `Trans-Discipline'

Eduardo Ibarra-Colado
- 01 Nov 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of knowledge as a mechanism of colonisation in the development of critical management studies in Latin America and how they have been developed in the region.
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Provincializing europe: towards a post-colonial reconstruction: a critique of baconian science as the last stand of imperialism

TL;DR: This article argued that any serious attempt to reorganize the past and/or the future must subvert the European appropriation of the universal, and that violence is encoded in the very fabric of modern science.
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Is the University Universal? Mobile (Re)Constitutions of American Academia in the Gulf Arab States

TL;DR: The authors argue that branch campuses have a particularly important relationship with emerging forms of racial consciousness, identity, and politicization among students, both citizen and foreign resident, in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.