This is a conceptual paper that approaches the issue of assessing rigour and quality in decolonising research. It examines this issue based on my lived experiences as an teacher, author, reviewer and editor doing decolonising management research. I identify four problems with treating decolonising management research as a paradigm. I suggest that incommensurabilities at the level of cosmologies and not at the level of paradigms in the political project of decolonising management. Drawing upon the works of de Sousa Santos on Epistemoogies of the South and Gayatri Spivak’s catachrestic reading, I propose four points that authors and readers/reviewers need to take into consideration in approaching the idea of rigour and quality in decolonising management research.
