Challenging Colonizing Logics within Management Research: Towards a Broader View of Management

Challenging Colonizing Logics within Management Research disrupts the assumption that the Western scientific method, with its emphasis on objectivity, measurement and categorizations is the best way to develop management knowledge. By reviewing the history of management as a discipline, Donna Ladkin exposes how colonizing logics have been ‘baked into’ the fabric of management practice and how it is studied.

The book offers alternative approaches to each stage of the research journey, demonst...