Sub-theme 50: Organizational Research on and from the Global South: Overcoming the ‘Perfect/Imperfect’ Dichotomy

Convenors:
Fahreen Alamgir, Monash University, Australia
Rafael Alcadipani, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
Mehdi Boussebaa, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, D4.0.127
Decolonizing Knowledge and Practices
Chair: Rafael Alcadipani
Daniel S. Lacerda, Arun Kumar and Nidhi Srinivas
From market orchestration to market insulation: a critical review of global poverty alleviation in management studies
Carmen Migueles and Marco Tulio Zanini
Decolonizing trust: Building trust in a high power distance context
Natalie Anita Bye
A decolonial analysis of social capital theory
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, D4.0.127
Global South, Extractivism and Resistance
Chair: Fahreen Alamgir
Sandeep Pillai and Adam K. Frost
Entrepreneurial strategies in extractive environments
Abass Bila and Michelle Mielly
Hybridization & local worker resistance in post-colonial context: A West African case in the extractive industry
Amanda Ribeiro Carolino, Frederico Quintão, Armindo Santos de Sousa Teodósio and André Luiz Freitas Dias
Mining-dependency & environmental conflicts on the Global South: Existence and resistance in Brumadinho/Brazil
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, D4.0.127
Ethics and “Diversity”
Chair: Mehdi Boussebaa
Peter Case and Martyna Śliwa
The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of international development
Shoaib Ul Haq, Naeem Ashraf and Ashar Saleem
Search for authenticity? Appealing to ethical imagination in the microfinance industry of Pakistan
Wan Nur Amira Rahmat
Travelling gender equality agenda from the Global North to the Global South: The case of the 30% Club Malaysia
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, D4.0.127
Decolonization, Violence and Knowledge
Chair: Rafael Alcadipani
Rashedur Chowdhury and Penelope Muzanenhamo
The love that binds: Creating a better world in the context of marketplace violence
Sergio Wanderley and Amon Barros
Theorizing management and organizational knowledge from a decolonial Latin American (Brazilian) perspective
Joaquin Santuber and Jonathan Antonio Edelman
Organizing with knowledges: Diffracting imperfections from and by the Global South
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, D4.0.127
Theorizing from Non-Western Contexts
Chair: Rafael Alcadipani
Ana Alacovska, Thilde Langevang, Robin Steedman and Rashida Resario
Fracturing and fissuring mainstream (Western!) theory: A theory of Afro-communitarianism for the study of creative work
Lara Bianchi, Mihaela Kelemen and Judy N. Muthuri
‘Voices from below’: Informal business social responsibility in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stephanie Daher, Ana Bauer and Rene E. Seifert
Rethinking organizations through amerindian perspectivism
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, D4.0.127
Challenging Theories from the North
Chair: Fahreen Alamgir
Dimitra Petrakaki, Daniel Curto-Millet and Petros Chamakiotis
Manifestations of Epistemic Coloniality: Digital Health Platforms in the Global South
Carlos Ramirez and Adrián Pablo Zicari
Between a corporatist past and a globalized future: The Argentinian accounting profession and the “Social Balance Sheet”
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, D4.0.127
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