The call for greater visibility of decolonial perspectives in management theory and research has the potential to contribute to a political and intellectual renewal of scholarly engagement in critical questions of history and historical subjectivity. It invites us to critically examine the embeddedness of imperialism and colonialism in the linguistic, heuristic, ontological, and epistemological foundations of management research, curriculum, and teaching. It enables a critical engagement with Eurocentric ways of being and thinking to embrace what Mignolo and Walsh (2018) refer to as “decolonial pluriversality”- the capacity of local praxes and epistemologies to illuminate, relate, or correlate to those existing in other places.

In this track, we welcome empirical and theoretical works examining decolonial, critical, and postmodern perspectives and make use of any epistemological choice that - Explore challenges to dominant forms of managing identity-claims and historical grievances put forth by the ‘colonized’ in a given organizational setting; Investigate the exclusionary experiences of minorities and minority groups in the workplace and the means by which a decolonial or decolonizing approach to knowledge and epistemological production could provide pathways to inclusive praxis, among others questions.

Keywords: Decolonizing; Organizational Studies; Colonialism; Management Theory and practice.

Coordination / Covenor: Helio Arthur Reis Irigaray - Participants: Michelle Mielly, Gazi Islam (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France).