Jack Gavin - International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading

This book has been a long time in the making and involved the generous input and support of a large number of people and institutions to whom we are grateful.

We start by acknowledging and thanking seminar audiences at the following institutions for engaging generously with iterative versions of our argument: Essex Business School; Newcastle University Business School; Department of Management, New Mexico State University; Department of Sociology, University of Trento; The York Management School; University of Exeter Business School. Thanks also to stream participants at the APROS Conference in Delhi, India, 2008.

Gavin would like to thank colleagues and PhD students at the University of Leicester School of Management Joanna Brewis, Martin Parker, Mark Tadajewski, Stefano Harney, Gibson Burrell, Anoop Bhogal, Ishani Chandrasekara, Nceku Nyathi who read, listened to, gave references or clarified thinking on postcolonial issues. He is also extremely grateful for the financial support and sabbatical leave granted by the University of Leicester to spend time studying at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the University of Queensland. Marta Cals and Linda Smircich were extraordinarily gracious hosts and generous with their time and intellect. Gavin would also like to acknowledge the hospitality of Jacqueline Urla, Lisa Henderson, and Lisas Graduate Seminar Class (COMM 7941) at UMass, especially Christopher Sweetapple who provided help with anthropological sources. Gavin also thanks the financial support of his new employer, the Graduate School of Management at La Trobe University, as well as Ben Fox and Fiona Graetz. Craig Prichard at Massey University and Josephine Maltby at the University of York kindly provided citations and articles.

Bob would like to thank some colleagues who have been supportive Loong Wong, Johan Beneviste, Carl Rhodes, Carly Edgerton, Steve Linstead, Andrew Chan, Amanda Roan, Dostain Khan Jamaldini, Siggi Gudergan, Donncha Kavanagh, Malakai Tawake, John McManus, Fahad Khan, Ken Taniguchi, Bill de Maria. He would also like to particularly thank David Boje, Grace Ann Rosile and colleagues and students at the New Mexico State University for hosting me and showing interest and support during a sabbatical in late 2008. Also to Gibson Burrell and colleagues at the Management School, University of Leicester for allowing me to be with them on two occasions as Visiting Professor. Bob also acknowledges the School of Business UQ and University of Queensland for supporting two special study programmes that aided the completion of this book.