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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizational stigma is a collective, negative, moral evaluation of an organization that results in increased threats to its survival. Within the extant literature, stigma is generally conceptualized as an organizational attribute, or something that an organization inherently is. Though researchers have thoroughly interrogated the processes by which organizations manage stigma and minimize stigma transfer to resource-granting stakeholders, we know very little about how an organization actually becomes stigmatized. What turns a negative event into a debilitating organizational label that becomes difficult to shake? Where does stigma come from and how can we distinguish it from related constructs like illegitimacy and poor reputation? By delving beneath the growing typologies of organizational stigma to examine the processes by which stigma emerges, this work demonstrates that organizational stigma is a social process that lends itself to a categorization rather than just a fixed category of organizations. In other words, stigmatized organizations are stigmatized only for as long as their stigmatizers actively stigmatize them. I examine the process of stigma emergence through the case of the stigmatization of seal hunting in Canada by animal rights social movement organizations (SMOs), beginning in the 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]