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Neo-colonialism in the academy? Anglo-American domination in management journals

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jingqi Zhu

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Abstract

Leading business and management journals claim to be ‘world-leading’ but are dominated by Anglo-American scholars. The extent of this domination is demonstrated graphically in this article through cartograms based on 2010/2011 authorship and editorship data in top management journals. The dramatically skewed production of management scholarship is both ethically problematic in terms of Anglo-American domination of leading journals and the exclusion of many developing regions, and anachronistic given the shift of global production away from the North Atlantic in recent years. This continuing neo-colonial domination of intellectual production underpins the inequitable organization of the global economy and specifically the disproportionate realisation of wealth in the global North at the expense of the global South. The article proposes a series of measures to begin redressing the imbalance.

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Author(s): Murphy J, Zhu J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Organization

Year: 2012

Volume: 19

Issue: 6

Pages: 915-927

Print publication date: 01/11/2012

Online publication date: 11/10/2012

ISSN (print): 1350-5084

ISSN (electronic): 1461-7323

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508412453097

DOI: 10.1177/1350508412453097

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