Now available in paperback with a new preface and foreword by Stella Nkomo. How might
imperialist, masculinist and white supremacist grips on leadership be loosened? In this …

Critical diversity studies emerged in the mid-1990s as a reaction to the re-appropriation of
equal opportunities by business through the notion of diversity. They initially took issue with …

Embraced by their ethnicity and gender many migrant women have negotiated their own
spaces in the host country. Yet, much of the literature on migrant women focuses on those …

Ideas of linking cultural diversity and knowledge resources have recently gained momentum
in organizational literature, however, little is known about actual knowledge-sharing …

This article adopts a postcolonial lens to contribute to the theorizing of diversity
management. It draws on an empirical study of a Swedish municipal school for adults in …

In this paper, I discuss challenges critical scholars face with respect to publishing qualitative
research in 'top tier'mainstream journal outlets. Relying on ideas and insights from …

In this paper I approach questions of representation from a viewpoint that adopts
postcolonial feminism as a starting point for theorizing new orientations for the study of …

Originating in the United States in the 1990s (Lorbiecki and Jack 2000; Kochan et al. 2003;
Litvin 2006), the business case for diversity is essentially a managerially driven, economic …

I propose in this chapter that the dominant practice of critical management studies (CMS) is
characterised by white masculinity, where theorising tends to assume a white universal …

Original papers Original papers are not included in the electronic version of the dissertation.
Kaasila-Pakanen, A.-L.(2016). A postcolonial deconstruction of diversity management and …