TY - JOUR

T1 - All my relations

T2 - understanding perceptions of justice and conflict between companies and indigenour peoples

AU - Whiteman, Gail

PY - 2009/1

Y1 - 2009/1

N2 - Research on organizational justice typically investigates how perceptions of justice affect encounters between internal organizational actors, with few studies analyzing perceptions between firms and external stakeholders. In addition to a narrow focus on employer—employee relations, the organizational justice literature is dominated by western and European cultural perspectives. My paper addresses these gaps by exploring how justice theory may be useful in understanding conflicts between local Indigenous Peoples and multinational firms from the natural resource sector. I argue that this applied research problem can make a number of conceptual contributions to organization studies of justice. I illustrate how organizational justice theory applies within this new context, and also how indigenous cultural visions of justice enrich and challenge our very notion of organizational justice.

AB - Research on organizational justice typically investigates how perceptions of justice affect encounters between internal organizational actors, with few studies analyzing perceptions between firms and external stakeholders. In addition to a narrow focus on employer—employee relations, the organizational justice literature is dominated by western and European cultural perspectives. My paper addresses these gaps by exploring how justice theory may be useful in understanding conflicts between local Indigenous Peoples and multinational firms from the natural resource sector. I argue that this applied research problem can make a number of conceptual contributions to organization studies of justice. I illustrate how organizational justice theory applies within this new context, and also how indigenous cultural visions of justice enrich and challenge our very notion of organizational justice.

KW - Organizational justice

KW - indigenous peoples

KW - conflict

KW - stakeholder

U2 - 10.1177/0170840608100518

DO - 10.1177/0170840608100518

M3 - Journal article

VL - 30

SP - 105

EP - 124

JO - Organization Studies

JF - Organization Studies

SN - 0170-8406

IS - 1

M1 - 30

ER -