The major contributor to global management knowledge is scholarship in developed economies,especially in North America and Western Europe. The development of global management knowledge lags behind the globalization of business enterprises. With the emergence of many developing economies around the world,progress in building the body of global management knowledge could be enhanced by encouraging high quality indigenous research in these novel contexts. This essay discusses two types of context-sensitive research. It argues the need for high quality indigenous research,using the influential studies on management in the Chinese context as illustrations. It offers guidelines on conducting high quality indigenous research that produces contextualized knowledge on the one hand and contributes to global knowledge on the other.