This article draws attention to how management scholars “the outsiders within” who are structurally positioned within the academies of dominant powers might negotiate the complexities of producing a locally rooted and meaningful knowledge, emancipated from the U.S. hegemony while carrying organization studies in Arab countries. Drawing upon my different ethnographic journeys as a researcher, brought up in an Arab country with a Francophone intellectual mindset and studying Arab management practices, I will discuss both the potential for and the difficulties of critical engagement with a decolonizing management research agenda. Then, and building on critical border thinking tradition, I will propose the Egyptian term “Fahlawa” as a metaphor for better describing the challenges of a decolonizing research practice that privileges contestation and perpetual bricolage over formal and universal design. Finally, I will conclude by highlighting the potential of “Fahlawa” as a survival/resistance practice to theorize what is unthought and invisible in management literature and to build situated knowledge less organized by U.S. domination.

本文提请注意在结构上处于主导力量学院内的管理学者“内部的局外人”如何协商产生一种扎根于当地且有意义的知识的复杂性，这些知识从美国霸权中解放出来，同时在阿拉伯国家进行组织研究。借鉴我作为研究人员的不同民族志旅程，在阿拉伯国家长大，拥有法语国家的知识分子思维并研究阿拉伯管理实践，我将讨论批判性参与非殖民化管理研究议程的潜力和困难。然后，在批判性边界思维传统的基础上，我将提出埃及术语“Fahlawa”作为一个比喻，以更好地描述非殖民化研究实践的挑战，该实践将争论和永久拼凑置于正式和通用设计之上。最后，我将强调“Fahlawa”作为一种生存/抵抗实践的潜力，可以将管理文献中未考虑和不可见的东西理论化，并建立不受美国统治组织的情境知识。