Critical
Gender and Diversity Issues in Management and Organization
Theory
Conveners:
Bendl Regine,
Regine.Bendl@wu-wien.ac.at,
Benschop Yvonne,
Y.Benschop@fm.ru.nl,
Martin Joanne,
martin_joanne@gsb.stanford.edu,
Pringle Judith,
Judith.pringle@aut.ac.nz
The aim of this workshop is
to bring together international scholars who are interested in
critical gender and diversity issues and how these find their
way to and have an impact on organization and management
theories and practices.
As this contemporary
discourse is characterized by disciplinary fragmentation and
distinctions, various approaches to gender and diversity
issues are welcomed. For example, differences in theoretical
approaches may be influenced by geo-political context and
create divergence in application to practice. This stream aims
to bring together researchers who wish to stress more
inclusiveness and cooperation as well as discussing
transformation in this field. We strive for an international
workshop to be able to discuss local initiatives and examine
their impact on the global scale.
Thus, we invite theoretical
and empirical papers that can address aspects of the following
topics, but are not limited to:
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Feminist Epistemologies: Which new feminist
epistemological approaches can inform the field and how do
they relate to the existing feminist epistemologies? What
new perspectives do they open for gender and diversity
issues as well as for organization and management theory?
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Queer Perspectives: How can queer theory – as
theoretical as well as an activist movement – provoke
questions about dominant language, knowledge claims and
ethics/politics in organizations? Which differences, radical
actions and/or alternate political tactics can be brought
into existence? |
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Diversity Management: What role does diversity
management play in the reproduction of fixed, dualistic and
essentialized identities in organizations? How does
diversity management relate to other ways of addressing
organizational inequalities? How could an intersectional
approach help to form identities beyond binary perspectives?
What methods are needed to study identities in organizations
that de-stabilize binary dimensions of identity? |
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Feminist Organization Theory: What constitutes Feminist
Organizational Theory? How can disciplinary, political,
theoretical and methodological limits be transcended? What
are the paradoxes and problems of acceptance of feminist
organization theory as inclusive theory, but outside the
mainstream? If Feminist Organization Theory is to become
mainstream, what should be done? |
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Theorizing Gender: Within academic research and popular
discourse shades of gender theory are still intertwined with
dualistic conceptions of sex. How could gender theory be
enlivened to advance an understanding of gender identities
independent of this dichotomous foundation? |
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Gender, diversity and change What changes have decades
of feminist and not-so-feminist interventions brought to
organizations? What constitutes successful change in this
field? Is incremental change the best we can hope for, or
are there examples that go beyond small wins? What can be
learnt from those cases and their contexts? |
The participants of this
stream “Critical Gender and Diversity Issues in Management and
Organization Theory” will work together for up to one and a
half days and discuss each paper.
Each
participant will receive copies of all papers by June 15, and
would have read them in advance of the workshop. The final
form of presenting and discussing the papers will be decided
in June. We are thinking about a format in which there is
ample time to discuss each paper. Workshop participants should
prepare a presentation of one of the other papers and give
feedback to improve all of the other papers. However, several
other approaches to the discussion are possible and we welcome
suggestions from the participants ahead of the workshop.
The
motivation for the workshop is simple: neither the PDW nor the
main program events at the AOM give us enough opportunity to
engage in in-depth discussion of papers in critical management
studies. So the workshop will be organized as a series of
parallel streams (working groups). Each stream will consist of
people who have contributed papers on a well-defined topic
(perhaps with some invited discussants), and the group will
work together over the course of the day-and-a-half, going
around the room discussing the papers in turn. In order to
maximize discussion, authors will not present their own
papers, but rather participants will be asked to present and
discuss each others' papers. We will also arrange a couple of
plenary sessions and some social time where all the
participants come together.
We are
yet to finalize the cost of the workshop, but based on present
estimates, we anticipate that the workshop will cost between
$400 and $550 for each participant, depending on whether they
choose to stay for two nights or three, and whether they
choose single or double rooms. The fee will include meals
(lunch and dinner on 7th and all 3 meals on 8th). We will
finalize the details quickly on this front.
If
you wish to be part of this stream, please submit a 250 word
abstract to
Regine.Bendl@wu-wien.ac.at,
Y.Benschop@fm.ru.nl,
martin_joanne@gsb.stanford.edu, and
Judith.pringle@aut.ac.nz
by January 15th, 2008. Please note that
submissions can be concurrently on review at the regular AOM
2008 conference as well. The submission of an abstract
constitutes a good-faith agreement to submit a full paper for
the stream by June 1, 2008 if the paper is accepted. The
final paper should be less than 8000 words in length.
NEW
DATES (as of 30 December 2007)
Feb 20: Abstracts of papers submitted to stream conveners
March 10: Submissions accepted/rejected
June 15: Full papers submitted by this date for inclusion in
the Workshop.
