Managing the Post-Colony: Voices from Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific

This edited book is the second in the book series ＂Managing the Post-Colony＂. The book series is co-edited by Nimruji Jammulamadaka (IIM Calcutta, India) and Gavin Jack (Monash University, Australia). The book series seeks to present cutting-edge, critical, interdisciplinary, and geographically and culturally diverse perspectives on the contemporary nature, experience, and theorisation of managing and organising under conditions of postcoloniality.

This book specifically presents voices and perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and The Pacific, locations with shared and distinctive histories and present-day experiences of colonisation and imperialism. Ways of managing, organising, and doing business in these places demonstrate cultural continuity and change in such histories, present sites of postcolonial struggle, and diverse prospects for self-determined future-making.

The book explores struggles and prospects of managing in the post-colony through qualitative empirical cases, historical and legal studies, conceptual essays and provocations, and interviews with Indigenous business leaders. It contributes to the ongoing diversification, provincialisation, and decolonisation of management and organisation studies and practice.

A strong focus is placed on diverse Indigenous knowledges and experiences, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Pasifika, and Māori peoples, and insights into the capacity for Indigenous culture-specific modes of business to offer decolonising futures.

Gavin Jack is Professor and Head, Department of Management, Monash Business School, Australia. He has previously worked at La Trobe University, Melbourne, as well as the University of Leicester and Keele University in the United Kingdom. His research interests are in critical management studies, postcolonial approaches to management and organisation studies (especially international and cross-cultural management), gender and diversity in the workplace, and sustainable agricultural development. He has been a Co-chair of the Critical Management Studies Division of the Academy of Management. He enjoys collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches to research, and has worked with a range of large and small private, public, and civil society organisations in the Global South.

Michelle Evans is Associate Professor in Leadership, Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Business School, Australia. She has worked in management roles across the higher education, arts, and community sectors. She is also Founder of 3KND Indigenous Radio in Melbourne, The Wilin Centre at the University of Melbourne, the Accelerate Programme, a partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts and British Council, the MURRA Indigenous Business Master Class programme at the Melbourne Business School and most recently the Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Business Leadership at the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Business School.

Dr Billie Lythberg is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Associate Director of the Inclusive Capitalism Centre at the University of Auckland Business School, and an affiliated researcher of Vā Moana - Pacific Spaces at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her work is often multi-modal, contributing to theorising and activating arts- and practice-based research methodologies, and applying whakapapa/vā/entity-relatedness to research questions.

Dr Jason Mika is Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu. Jason was born in Whakatāne and raised mainly in Rotorua. Jason is married with seven children. He is an Associate Professor of Māori business at Te Raupapa Waikato Management School and Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Jason’s research, teaching, writing, and practice centres on Indigenous business philosophy in multiple sites, sectors, and scales, including Indigenous trade, tourism, agribusiness, and the marine economy. In 2015, Jason completed a PhD in business at Massey University. In 2019, Jason was a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga senior scholar at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment and the University of Arizona’s Native Nations Institute. Jason is a member of the Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand. Prior to academia, Jason was a management consultant and government analyst specialising in Māori economic development.