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Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique (2014)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., & Siebers, L. Q. (2015). Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(21), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.968185

While transforming the investment, trading and infrastructural landscape in Africa, Chinese firms are also generating much-publicised controversy about their real motives. Many of the large Chinese firms operating in Africa focus mostly but not exclu... Read More about Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique.

Transferring management practices to China: a Bourdieusian critique of ethnocentricity (2014)
Journal Article
Siebers, L. Q., Kamoche, K., & Li, F. (2015). Transferring management practices to China: a Bourdieusian critique of ethnocentricity. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.925948

This paper provides a critique of the emergent theories of human resource management in China with a view to generating new theoretical insights with particular reference to Pierre Bourdieu's social theory. It reassesses the relevance of the orthodox... Read More about Transferring management practices to China: a Bourdieusian critique of ethnocentricity.

Knowledge appropriation and identity: toward a multi-discourse analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., Beise-Zee, R., & Mamman, A. (2014). Knowledge appropriation and identity: toward a multi-discourse analysis. Organization Studies, 35(9), https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614531720

Knowledge appropriation has been underpinned by an assumption of the organization’s ‘entitlement’ to appropriate knowledge and the outcomes of its utilization. Given the complexity of knowledge and the potentially conflicting views held about it, thi... Read More about Knowledge appropriation and identity: toward a multi-discourse analysis.

Knowledge-sharing, control, compliance and symbolic violence (2014)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., Kannan, S., & Siebers, L. Q. (2014). Knowledge-sharing, control, compliance and symbolic violence. Organization Studies, 35(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614525325

Recent developments in control hold that professionals are best managed through normative and concertive as opposed to bureaucratic and coercive mechanisms. This post-structuralist approach appeals to the notion of congruent values and norms and ackn... Read More about Knowledge-sharing, control, compliance and symbolic violence.