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- Broadbridge, Adelina, et al.
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Retirement – a new beginning or the beginning of the end?
- 2015
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Ingår i: Handbook Of Gendered Careers In Management: Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out. - 9781782547686 ; , s. 728-739
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter explores what retirement means to women about to, or having recently retired in the current economic climate. It examines the choices perceived available to pre-retirement and retired people and their attitudes towards retirement. From our findings we are able to deduce that not everyone approaches retirement in the same way. Davies and Jenkins (2013) categorize individual-level experiences of the retirement transition into five positions: clean breakers; continuing scholars; opportunists; the reluctant; avoiders. We also categorize retirees depending on how they view themselves and their overall attitudes to retirement. However, our typology differs from theirs, which partly may be due to the fact that that we, instead of using a matched sample (which in their case consists of academic staff), include people with a variety of professions and who either have retired or are still working.
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- Fougere, Martin, et al.
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Disclaimers, dichotomies and disappearances in international business textbooks: A postcolonial deconstruction
- 2012
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 43:1, s. 5-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we draw on a postcolonial sensibility to deconstruct how culture is discussed in mainstream international business textbooks. Through this deconstruction we show: (1) how the initial disclaimers that call for cultural sensitivity can be seen as pointing to the opposite of what they claim, which leads us to question the cultural sensitivity notion from ethical and political standpoints; (2) how the cultural dichotomies that form the core of the discussions always tend to silence the suppressed 'other' features on each side, which leads us to point to the much more ambivalent nature of culture and the hybrid spaces that can be created through cultural translation; (3) how (colonial) history is conspicuously absent from the arguments about 'cultural' underdevelopment and thus haunts the text. We conclude the article by suggesting the development of alternative types of international business textbook material on culture.
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- Moulettes, Agneta, et al.
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Cultural (In)Sensitivity in International Management Textbooks: A Postcolonial Reading
- 2009
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Ingår i: [Host publication title missing].
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to analyze, with a broadly postcolonial sensibility, the discourses on culture found in some of the international management books that: 1) especially claim to emphasize the cultural factor, and 2) claim to be ‘international’, supposedly appropriate for reading in all parts of the globe. We intend to show that very similar discursive patterns characterize the conceptualizations of culture found in these books. We especially emphasize three striking features, present in all five textbooks, which reveal how managers are meant to get to see the world once disciplined by these powerful discourses on culture: - a unanimous call for ‘cultural sensitivity’, which is presented as a skill that should be found in international managers – but has insidious implications - a general tendency to essentialize national cultures, presenting them as static and homogeneous - a way of addressing a managerialistic purpose through a reductionism that subjugates culture to the needs of successful business We contend that the claimed book audiences - ‘international’ or even ‘global’ - are constructed upon the legacy of a colonial thinking in the sense that the knowledge is meant to be propagated through a one-way communication from the Western, mostly Anglo-Saxon, world (through standardized MBA education) to a rest of the world that is considered as economically and culturally peripheral. We conclude that the books contribute to producing both a guilt-free Western subjectivity and a collective cultural responsibility on the part of the people from so-called ‘developing countries’.
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- Moulettes, Agneta, et al.
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Development and Modernity in Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: A Postcolonial Reading
- 2006
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Along with an increasingly globalized business environment and a strongly held corporate belief that the world can be rationally managed, the last two decades have witnessed a growing demand for normative models dealing with cross-cultural management issues. This trend has allowed cross-cultural management to establish itself as a significant research field, with much of the initial inspiration coming from Hofstede and his cultural model from 1980. In this paper, our intention is not to merely repeat the already formulated objections to the latter model concerning its ontology, epistemology and methodology, but rather to focus on the very words of Hofstede himself in his second edition of Culture’s Consequences (2001), which he wrote partly in order to address the criticisms that his work received in the previous twenty years and to demonstrate that his findings are still valid. Our main aim here will be to explore how the discourse generated by Hofstede through his model and his comments on his results constructs the world by dividing it especially according to dichotomies of 'development'/'underdevelopment' and 'modernity'/'tradition'.
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- Moulettes, Agneta, et al.
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Development and Modernity in Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: A Postcolonial Reading
- 2007
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Ingår i: Journal of Multicultural Discourses. ; 2:1, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper studies the discourse deployed in Hofstede´s Culture's Consequences (1980, 2001), the international best-seller that introduces a model classifying national cultures according to four (later five) supposedly universal dimensions. Noting that this management-oriented scholarly discourse has had a huge impact in both the business world and academia, we take a critical stance towards the Western-based, ethnocentric perspective that characterises it. Our aim is not to merely repeat the already formulated objections to the model, concerning its ontology, epistemology and methodology, but rather to focus on the very words of Hofstede himself in his second edition of Culture's Consequences (2001). With a broadly postcolonial sensibility, drawing on authors such as Said and Escobar, we contend that Hofstede discursively constructs a world characterised by a division between a 'developed and modern' side (mostly 'Anglo-Germanic' countries) and a 'traditional and backward' side (the rest) and discuss the cultural consequences of such colonial discourse.
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- Moulettes, Agneta
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Performing to secure cultural hegemony : mediators' impact on the integration process
- 2021
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Ingår i: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. - 2040-7149. ; 40:5, s. 577-590
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The article takes its point of departure in the current labor market debate on immigration policy and attempts to explore the way private labor market mediators involved in the integration of immigrants contribute to reproducing cultural stereotypes reminiscent of colonial ideas. Design/methodology/approach: Findings are based on respondent-driven interviews with nine labor market mediators (seven women and three men) from eight private labor market agencies in Sweden. Findings: The findings showed that the private labor market mediators put their trust in the neoliberal system and rely on the colonial discourses when convincing immigrants to assimilate into the dominant culture. At the same time, the findings also show that there is no evidence that the assimilating activities they offer will lead to long-term employment. Research limitations/implications: Given that migration across national borders has become a common phenomenon, the author suggests a call for critical reflections on the taken-for-granted notions of both self and others and the influences colonial discourses have on integration. Practical implications: The author would suggest a shift of focus from immigrants' cultural adjustment to society's and employers' responsibilities and readiness to adjust to prevailing conditions. Originality/value: The study contributes to the labor market literature and the diversity management literature by adding insights from public labor market mediators' experiences of the help they offer immigrants to enter the labor market. It shows how mediators make use of dominating discourses to secure cultural hegemony.
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- Moulettes, Agneta
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The absence of women’s voices in Hofstede’s Cultural Consequences: A Postcolonial Reading
- 2007
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Ingår i: Women in Management Review. - 0964-9425. ; 22:6, s. 443-455
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Embedded in the Western scientific rationality Hofstede’s methodological approach is constructed on a quantitative method characterized by a carefully selected sample of well educated white ‘men’ from the middle classes working for the same company and sharing similar occupation. The appointment of these men as the norm for national culture might mislead one to believe that Hofstede perceive of culture as equally distributed among men and women. Considering that he has dedicated one of his five dimensions to gender and constructed his model on a bipolar distinction between Masculinity and Femininity this is clearly not the case. Instead it shows that he has a distinct understanding of the differences between masculinity and femininity which he uses for his construction of national cultures. This raises the following question; Is the absence of women’s own voices in Hofstede’s theory reducing them to objects of patriarchy in order to maintain men’s power positions in the globalized economy? The aim of my paper is to discuss these and similar questions from a postcolonial angle.
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- Moulettes, Agneta
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The absence of women’s voices in Hofstede’s Cultural Consequences: A Postcolonial Reading
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Along with the increasingly globalized business environment that we have witnessed over the past decades cross-culture management research has establish itself as an important research field with much of its inspiration coming from colonialism and a Western rational thinking. The legacy of colonialism and Western rationality is apparent in its engagement in research practices involving the essentialising, exoticing and appropriation of the other (cf. Said 1995, Prasad 2003, Westwood 2001) with the underlying assumption that cultural models could serve as competitive devices in the conquest of the global market. It is my contention that current cross-cultural management studies, with Hofstede (1980, 2001) as one of its front figures, is founded on a colonial discourse that gives prominence to the universal at the sacrifice of alternative conceptualizations of social life. Hence, embedded in the Western scientific rationality Hofstede’s methodological approach is constructed on a quantitative method which among other things is characterized by its carefully selected sample consisting of a group of well educated white ‘men’ from the middle classes working for the same company and sharing identical or similar occupations. The appointment of well educated men from the middle classes as the norm for national culture might mislead one to believe that Hofstede perceives of culture as equally distributed among men and women and that there are no differences in regard to the possession of power. However, considering that he has dedicated one of his five dimensions to gender and constructed his model on a bipolar distinction between Masculinity and Femininity this is clearly not the case. On the contrary his Masculinity/Femininity dimension (MAS) shows that he has a very clear and distinct understanding of the differences between masculinity and femininity which he takes advantage of for his construction of national cultures. For example, Hofstede argues that statistically men as a rule will be more achievement oriented while women as a rule will be more care-oriented.
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- Moulettes, Agneta
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The Darker side of Integration Policy : A study on public employment officers’ discursive construction of female immigrants’ employability
- 2015
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Ingår i: SAGE Open. - : SAGE Publications. - 2158-2440. ; 5:2, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite its remarkable receptivity to immigrants entering the country, Sweden has one of the worst track records in Europe in terms of employing immigrants. However, although there are various studies devoted to integration issues, little scholarly attention has been directed toward public employment officers and their role as professional mediators in the integration process. By investigating the language used by public employment officers when they explain how they assist female immigrants in the process of entering the Swedish labor market, this study attempts to add to our knowledge of these officers and their role. It uses ideas from postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis to show (a) how public employment officers make use of prevailing discourses to transform female immigrants from passive welfare beneficiaries into active and responsible job seekers, (b) how prevailing discourses contribute to the reproduction of culture and gender differences reminiscent of colonial discourses, and (c) how unequal power relations may favor the segregation of mainstream and alternative cultures.
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