Managing the Post-Colony: Voices from Aotearoa, Australia and The Pacific

Gavin Jack is Professor and Head, Department of Management, Monash Business School, Australia. He has previously worked at La Trobe University, Melbourne, as well as the University of Leicester and Keele University in the United Kingdom. His research interests are in critical management studies, postcolonial approaches to management and organisation studies (especially international and cross-cultural management), gender and diversity in the workplace, and sustainable agricultural development. He has been a Co-chair of the Critical Management Studies Division of the Academy of Management. He enjoys collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches to research, and has worked with a range of large and small private, public, and civil society organisations in the Global South. 

Michelle Evans is Associate Professor in Leadership, Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Business School, Australia. She has worked in management roles across the higher education, arts, and community sectors. She is also Founder of 3KND Indigenous Radio in Melbourne, The Wilin Centre at the University of Melbourne, the Accelerate Programme, a partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts and British Council, the MURRA Indigenous Business Master Class programme at the Melbourne Business School and most recently the Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Business Leadership at the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Business School.

Dr Billie Lythberg is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Associate Director of the Inclusive Capitalism Centre at the University of Auckland Business School, and an affiliated researcher of Va Moana – Pacific Spaces at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her work is often multi-modal, contributing to theorising and activating arts- and practice-based research methodologies, and applying whakapapa/va/entity-relatedness to research questions.

DrJason Mika is Tuhoe, Ngati Awa, Whakatohea, Ngati Kahungunu. Jason was born in Whakatane and raised mainly in Rotorua. Jason is married with seven children. He is an Associate Professor of Maori business at Te Raupapa Waikato Management School and Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Jason’s research, teaching, writing, and practice centres on Indigenous business philosophy in multiple sites, sectors, and scales, including Indigenous trade, tourism, agribusiness, and the marine economy. In 2015, Jason completed a PhD in business at Massey University. In 2019, Jason was a Fulbright-Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga senior scholar at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment and the University of Arizona’s Native Nations Institute. Jason is a member of the Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and Te Aparangi Royal Society of New Zealand. Prior to academia, Jason was a management consultant and government analyst specialising in Maori economic development.