ABSTRACT
Gayatri C. Spivak is an Indian-born scholar and philosopher whose main areas of scholarship are at the intersections of English literature, feminist theory and postcoloniality. Her work has had a major influence on the trajectory of postcolonial studies as a field of inquiry on/about the 'Third World' or as she suggests, what was left of the world after the United States and Russia split it up. This chapter shows how Spivak's interdisciplinary work and scholarship provide new directions for organizational thinking and the nexus of business and society. It focuses on contributions available from Spivak's scholarship to notions of subjectivity, ethics and corporate governance in the context of globalization. Spivak developed the subaltern concept as an analytic lens to focus on the 'Third-World' female subject in history and in Western texts and is emblematic of her use of Marxist and deconstructionist approaches simultaneously.
