Using cultural metaphors to understand management in the Caribbean

For several years, inspired by Martin Gannons concept of using metaphors to describe cultures, students in international management at the University of the West Indies have written short papers exploring Caribbean cultural metaphors and how they relate to management. These have included: the Rum Sh...

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Published in:International journal of cross cultural management : CCM 2012-12, Vol.12 (3), p.269-275
Main Authors: Corbin, Akhentoolove, Punnett, Betty Jane, Onifa, Nyzinga
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business management
Caribbean
Cultural norms
Cultural values
Metaphor
National culture
Personnel management
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Summary:For several years, inspired by Martin Gannons concept of using metaphors to describe cultures, students in international management at the University of the West Indies have written short papers exploring Caribbean cultural metaphors and how they relate to management. These have included: the Rum Shop, Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago, Crop Over and Pudding and Souse in Barbados, Sunday Lunch, Nine Mornings in St Vincent & the Grenadines, and the Blue Hole of Belize. There are lots more, but this gives an idea of the wide array of metaphors that can serve to help understand the West Indian/Caribbean culture. The IJCCM published a couple of metaphors in earlier volumes and we thought it might be timely to prepare a paper on Caribbean metaphor. We wrote to ask if such a paper would be of interest and got a response asking if we would be interested in doing a special issue on the Caribbean. Thus, this special issue was born. We could hardly say no, as we have been complaining about the lack of management research on the Caribbean. We believe the papers presented in this special issue provide an interesting and insightful contribution to the literature on culture and management in the Caribbean. Nurse and Punnett (2002) noted this as one of the critical areas for research in the region. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd
ISSN:1470-5958
1741-2838
DOI:10.1177/1470595812440152