How might we study international business to account for marginalized subjects? Turning to practice and situating knowledges
Critical Perspectives on International Business
ISSN: 1742-2043
Article publication date: 4 July 2016
Abstract
Purpose
The aim of this article is to encourage critical scholars of international business (IB) to engage with scholarship that turns to practice and situates knowledges. The paper contends that such undertakings have the potential to constructively politicize research in the field of international business.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper discusses the need for future research in the field to be studied more critically so as to be able to focus attention on those subjects detrimentally impacted by the operation of IB. It further identifies possibilities for doing so.
Findings
The paper argues that turning to practice and situating knowledges represents a move towards the emancipation of subjects marginalized – and, all too often, silenced – in the ordinary functioning of IB.
Originality/value
Moving against the grain of positivist orientated approaches to research in the field, whilst simultaneously building on the critical traditions to the study of IB, we consider how future scholarship might account for marginalized subjects.
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Citation
Durepos, G., Prasad, A. and Villanueva, C.E. (2016), "How might we study international business to account for marginalized subjects? Turning to practice and situating knowledges", Critical Perspectives on International Business, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 306-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-03-2016-0004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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