... Outsourcing Information systems Neo-colonial Postcolonial theory IS The outsourcing of R&D has become a strategic imperative for most leading pharmaceutical firms from the Global North (Subramaniam and Dugar, 2012). Third-party providers such as CROs in emerging markets are increasingly...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Critical discourse analysis Development discourse International business and management studies Partner choice Postcolonial imagination Resource complementarity Postcolonial theory The discursive turn in OS has already contributed to the studies...

... Postcolonial theory From a postcolonial perspective, the omnipresence of BELF in international business is an example of the continued “presence of the colonial” (Mir and Mir, 2009 , p. 104). This symbolic presence – which removes the possibility of dialogue due to the continued imposition...