TY - JOUR
T1 - The multinational corporation as a third space
T2 - Rethinking international management discourse on knowledge transfer through Homi Bhabha
AU - Frenkel, Michal
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - In this paper I use insights from postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha to analyze international management discourse on the cross-national transfer of knowledge and practices within the multinational corporation. Stressing the increasing importance of first work-third world geopolitical relations in shaping the transfer process, I apply Bhabha's epistemology of mimicry, hybridity, and the third space to offer an alternative understanding of the transfer process itself, the nature of the organization within which this process takes place, and the notions of power and agency as they are currently understood in international management studies.
AB - In this paper I use insights from postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha to analyze international management discourse on the cross-national transfer of knowledge and practices within the multinational corporation. Stressing the increasing importance of first work-third world geopolitical relations in shaping the transfer process, I apply Bhabha's epistemology of mimicry, hybridity, and the third space to offer an alternative understanding of the transfer process itself, the nature of the organization within which this process takes place, and the notions of power and agency as they are currently understood in international management studies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34547494746&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/AMR.2008.34422002
DO - 10.5465/AMR.2008.34422002
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AN - SCOPUS:34547494746
SN - 0363-7425
VL - 33
SP - 924
EP - 942
JO - Academy of Management Review
JF - Academy of Management Review
IS - 4
ER -