Tofinga, Buriata and Karan, Maureen and Lako, Jone and Mapuru, David and Mapuru, Anica (2025) Bridging Worlds: The Future of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Hybrid Knowledge Models in Business Schools. UNSPECIFIED.
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Western economic ideologies remain dominant in Business Schools. This paper presents a case study of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) inclusion in a Business School curricula and research program. The case focuses on the Women TEK Climate Resilience Project, based in the School of Business and Management (SBM), at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. The project team is made up of social science researchers from SBM who challenge this hegemony of Western epistemology by demonstrating the inclusion of TEK into the School’s research and pedagogy. The project is designed primarily to understand how indigenous women utilize TEK in building their resilience against the impacts of climate change, and how this informs business practice and management education. Drawing insights from this project, its methodology, design and implications, we argue for a hybrid knowledge model that disrupts the hegemony of Western epistemologies and opens pathways for pluralist, culturally grounded management education. Our findings contribute to decolonizing management scholarship by
demonstrating how Indigenous Knowledge can co-exist with, resist, or reshape dominant academic paradigms. The paper also identifies institutional and structural barriers that may undermine the transformative potential of combining TEK with Western academic knowledge.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | School of Business and Management (SBM) |
| Depositing User: | Ms Shalni Sanjana |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2026 00:00 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2026 00:00 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/15359 |
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