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Critical International Management

Critical international management
EduardoIbarra-Colado

Definition: Critical International Management (CIM) is an emerging transdisciplinary field of study devoted to analysing management practices and their consequences on an international level.

Introduction

CIM proposes alternative frameworks of analysis to go beyond the narrowness of mainstream approaches in International Management in order to embrace the complex political-economic, historical and geographical configuration of the world as the diverse arena in which international management relations are produced. The recognition of diversity and the consideration of the many discourses and practices used to organise and manage local relations in global contexts reintroduces power as key to understanding the asymmetrical relations between countries and regions and the central role played by multinational corporations in producing and reproducing the world order. Instead of improving management ...

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