Decolonizing the Business Case Study

Abstract

Business education needs to be decolonized. The teaching case is at the heart of contemporary business school pedagogy. However, case studies rarely reflect Indigenous business values or practices. In this paper, we argue that Indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, and axiologies need to be integrated into mainstream business school curricula and that this can be accomplished through a case writing methodology grounded in Indigenous research methods. We scrutinize the lack of Indigenous-focused business cases currently available, as well as describe some of the most important initiatives to date that attempt to address this gap. It is our hope that business scholars and researchers alike will have a deeper understanding of the need for inclusion and decolonization of business school curricula.