_Cross-cultural management scholars sometimes aren’t the most up to date when it comes to theories in the wider social sciences. This isn’t simply when the most tenacious still hang on to Hofstede’s purported ‘paradigm’ of cultural dimensions - perhaps a reason why social scientists often do not take us management scholars seriously. Postcolonial theory has been coming under criticism for some time. Yet critical cross-cultural management scholars can still be seen clinging to an idea of postcolonialism that may now be past its due date. _

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Poverty is not something that can be ignored in cross-cultural management studies. Increasingly it is an integral feature in wider global and domestic society. It is of growing importance in corporate life, and is becoming a subject of interest to international business and management scholars. How we understand poverty in global management and business, those issues touching on corporate life and the contributions and culpabilities of local and global corporations and how we address them from a cross-cultural perspective, and how this affects our scholarly work, are important aspects to consider.