This paper contributes to the drive to decolonize management and organization knowledge by unpacking the role played by indigenous managerial elites in the global managerial colonization of the Global South. We focus on the narratives managerial elites construct to legitimate managerialism to a dissenting population. We conducted an ethnographic study of efforts by members of the city council of Yaoundé, in Cameroon to implement and legitimate a global managerial intervention. Our findings show that to successfully legitimate the imposition of managerialism to a dissenting populace, managerial elites construct hybrid narratives. These hybrid narratives are not ignorant of the local context and are particularly potent because of the manner in which they factor in some local concerns, making the managerialist intervention more palatable to locals and yet continuing to impose a foreign way of life.

本文通过解开本土管理精英在全球南方的全球管理殖民化中所扮演的角色，为推动管理和组织知识的非殖民化做出贡献。我们专注于管理精英构建的叙事，以将管理主义合法化给持不同意见的人群。我们对喀麦隆雅温得市议会成员为实施全球管理干预并使之合法化所做的努力进行了民族志研究。我们的研究结果表明，为了成功地将管理主义强加给持不同意见的民众，管理精英构建了混合叙事。这些混合叙事并非无视当地背景，并且由于它们将某些当地问题考虑在内的方式而特别有效，