Writing the Adivasis (indigenous) in MOS: A critique of colonial and postcolonial epistemology and reframing the multiple worlds of Adivasis
批判组织与管理研究忽视印度阿迪瓦西原住民的殖民与后殖民认识论根源，呼吁通过反思性重构纳入其主体性与知识体系，以应对系统性边缘化。
The global Indigenous population, comprising approximately 476 million people across 90 countries, continues to face systemic marginalization despite decades of institutional recognition and international policy interventions. In India, the Adivasi population—numbering over 104 million—embodies a distinct form of indigeneity shaped by a long history of colonial classification, caste-based exclusion, and developmental displacement. While Management and Organization Studies (MOS) has increasingly examined social inequalities, the unique experiences of Adivasis remain conspicuously absent from mainstream scholarship. This exclusion is not incidental but reflects entrenched epistemic hierarchies and spatial biases that render Indigenous people invisible within organizational research. Existing studies overlook how Adivasis, as Indigenous populations, are embedded within structures of precarity and modern slavery. In response, this paper foregrounds Adivasi perspectives to interrogate the colonial-caste-capitalist matrix of exclusion and calls for a more inclusive and reflexive MOS that engages seriously with Indigenous subjectivities and epistemologies.