Agneta Moulettes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1151087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agneta Moulettes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agneta |
| FAMILY NAME | Moulettes |
| SIGNATURE | MOULETTES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing to secure cultural hegemony
Purpose The article takes its point of departure in the current labor market debate on immigration policy and attempts to explore the way private labor market mediators involved in the integration of immigrants contribute to reproducing cultural stereotypes reminiscent of colonial ideas. Design/methodology/approach Findings are based on respondent-driven interviews with nine labor market mediators (seven women and three men) from eight private la…
The Darker Side of Integration Policy
Despite its remarkable receptivity to immigrants entering the country, Sweden has one of the worst track records in Europe in terms of employing immigrants. However, although there are various studies devoted to integration issues, little scholarly attention has been directed toward public employment officers and their role as professional mediators in the integration process. By investigating the language used by public employment officers when …
On ‘Cultural’ Knowledge in International Management Textbooks
Training a managerial elite able to conduct business efficiently on the global market is unanimously presented as of utmost importance for success in today's globalized economy. The aim of the chapter is to analyse, whith a broadly postcolonial sensibility, the discourses on culture found in some well-known books that 1) claim to emphasize the cultural factor, and 2) present themselves as "international", supposedly appropriate for reading in all…
The absence of women's voices in Hofstede's Cultural Consequences
Purpose Embedded in Western scientific rationality, Hofstede's model on national culture is constructed on a quantitative method, which among other things is characterized by its carefully selected sample consisting of a group of well educated white “men” from the middle classes working for the same company and sharing identical or similar occupations. The appointment of well educated men from the middle classes as the norm for national culture m…
The Construction of the Modern West and the Backward Rest
This paper studies the discourse deployed in Hofstede's Culture's Consequences (1980, 2001), the international best-seller that introduces a model classifying national cultures according to four (later five) supposedly universal dimensions. Noting that this management-oriented scholarly discourse has had a huge impact in both the business world and academia, we take a critical stance towards the Western-based, ethnocentric perspective that charac…
The Construction of the Modern West and the Backward Rest
This paper studies the discourse deployed in Hofstede's Culture's Consequences (1980, 2001), the international best-seller that introduces a model classifying national cultures according to four (later five) supposedly universal dimensions. Noting that this management-oriented scholarly discourse has had a huge impact in both the business world and academia, we take a critical stance towards the Western-based, ethnocentric perspective that charac…
The absence of women's voices in Hofstede's Cultural Consequences
Purpose Embedded in Western scientific rationality, Hofstede's model on national culture is constructed on a quantitative method, which among other things is characterized by its carefully selected sample consisting of a group of well educated white “men” from the middle classes working for the same company and sharing identical or similar occupations. The appointment of well educated men from the middle classes as the norm for national culture m…
The Construction of the Modern West and the Backward Rest
This paper studies the discourse deployed in Hofstede's Culture's Consequences (1980, 2001), the international best-seller that introduces a model classifying national cultures according to four (later five) supposedly universal dimensions. Noting that this management-oriented scholarly discourse has had a huge impact in both the business world and academia, we take a critical stance towards the Western-based, ethnocentric perspective that charac…
On ‘Cultural’ Knowledge in International Management Textbooks
Training a managerial elite able to conduct business efficiently on the global market is unanimously presented as of utmost importance for success in today's globalized economy. The aim of the chapter is to analyse, whith a broadly postcolonial sensibility, the discourses on culture found in some well-known books that 1) claim to emphasize the cultural factor, and 2) present themselves as "international", supposedly appropriate for reading in all…
The Darker Side of Integration Policy
Despite its remarkable receptivity to immigrants entering the country, Sweden has one of the worst track records in Europe in terms of employing immigrants. However, although there are various studies devoted to integration issues, little scholarly attention has been directed toward public employment officers and their role as professional mediators in the integration process. By investigating the language used by public employment officers when …
Performing to secure cultural hegemony
Purpose The article takes its point of departure in the current labor market debate on immigration policy and attempts to explore the way private labor market mediators involved in the integration of immigrants contribute to reproducing cultural stereotypes reminiscent of colonial ideas. Design/methodology/approach Findings are based on respondent-driven interviews with nine labor market mediators (seven women and three men) from eight private la…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global and Cross-Cultural Management (2 works) · Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory (2 works)