ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses intellectual contributions of postcolonial and feminist thought to international management and follow up with a discussion on their impact for cross-cultural management education. Similarly, feminist perspectives highlight relations of power and difference across gender, race, class, ethnicity, and so forth as relevant for understanding how opportunities and resources become (un)available for women and men. The chapter suggests that an engagement with postcolonial feminist frameworks and reflexivity requires individuals to adopt a critical lens in the way they understand culture and cultural differences in order to provoke a discussion on assumptions and worldviews. One of the new core cross-cultural management competencies then is an understanding of how identities are produced under globalization and the implications of these identities for business relations, norms, and practices. This approach allows students to understand how people within the same nation or region may engage in and interpret local business ideas and practices differently based on their own identities and experiences.
