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- Knights, David, et al.
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Gendered incorporations : Critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 4:3-4, s. 217-235
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Challenging yet extending extant efforts in organisation studies to disrupt the gender divide, we develop an embodied account to more fundamentally dissolve the binaries that divide conventional forms of female and male embodiment. Despite a proliferation of literature on the body and emotion in sociology and organisation studies, it is our view that much of it remains deeply disembodied, treating the body pretty much like any other sociological phenomenon, i.e., as a mere object of study. In seeking to dissolve the gender divide, we incorporate a number of vignettes in an attempt to write our own bodies into the text. While reflecting about our own masculine (David and Torkild) and transgender (Torkild) embodiment, we critically discuss how transgender, in particular, may constitute a vehicle for challenging and disrupting the gender divide.
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- Knights, David, et al.
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Masculinity in the Financial Sector
- 2014
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199658213
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Knights, David, et al.
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Rethinking Diversity in Organizations
- 2013
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Ingår i: the 22th NFF conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, 21-23 August, 2013. On Practice and Knowledge Eruptions.. - 2298-3112.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Omanović, Vedran, 1965, et al.
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Mismanaging Diversity
- 2013
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Ingår i: EURAM 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 Juni 2013..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Remneland Wikhamn, Björn, 1973, et al.
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Open Innovation, Gender and the infiltration of masculine discourses
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. - 1756-6266. ; 5:3, s. 275-297
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to illustrate how open innovation is implemented in practice in a large multinational corporation and to discuss how masculine discourses of rational control and competition are reinforced during such a process. An exploratory single case study approach has been employed. Qualitative empirical data (interviews and documents) are derived from a four year longitudinal research project on open and distributed innovation processes in the automotive industry. Masculinity enters the discourse of open innovation through prescribed classical management ideals in line with auditing and bureaucratisation. The paper illustrates how these masculine discourses are reproduced rather than challenged by open innovation. It also highlights how the preoccupation with control and conquest tends to silence alternative (feminine) discourses which could otherwise enrich the radical and creative features of the open innovation paradigm. The paper is suggesting that the potential disruptive force in the open innovation paradigm tends to be watered down when appropriated by classical managerial ideals. It shows how difficult it is for managers to incorporate alternative (feminine) discourses when acting within a strong masculine hegemony. The open innovation paradigm leans on aspects such as “openness”, “collaboration”, “creativity” and “intuition” – much in line with feminine discursive connotations. But when masculine norms govern the company setting, these alternative modes of organising tend to be either marginalised or appropriated and transformed in ways that ensure they are compatible with discourses and practices of masculinity. This study provides insights into how discourses of masculinity play out and manifest themselves in the management of the firm. By doing so, it challenges the underlying and often uncritical assumptions of open innovation’s disruptive force on contemporary managerial practice
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- Remneland Wikhamn, Björn, 1973, et al.
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Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications on Theory and Practice
- 2012
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690. ; 21:3, s. 277-289
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has had a strong impact on theories of economic exchange but also on open innovation even though the relationship is often implicit rather than explicit. In this paper, we highlight what we consider to be the problematic use of TCE in the context of open innovation, suggesting that it has a limited descriptive power and potentially does normative damage to open innovation practice. A case study of the Volvo Group will be drawn upon to illustrate these claims. The case questions the belief that hierarchical control eliminates transaction costs. Also, it suggests that an overemphasis on calculative reduction of transaction costs together with a focus on governance and rationality leave little space for an innovative climate, thus diverting the attention away from the creative potential of transactions. Indeed the self-fulfilling prophecy character of subscribing to the assumptions of TCE may not merely limit but actually undermine innovation.
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- Thanem, Torkild, et al.
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Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies : Embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 5:1, s. 91-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the growing organisational literature on the gendered body, we argue that much of this literature remains disembodied. We therefore seek to further embody the study of gendered bodies and organisations by viewing the body as lived gendered embodiment and by writing our own viscerally embodied experiences into our discussion. We first discuss the phenomenological approach to lived gendered embodiment and how this has been utilised in organisation studies. We then discuss how research on lived gendered embodiment might become more viscerally self–reflective. Throughout, we integrate these discussions with our own visceral and gendered self–reflections from teaching and research.
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- Tullberg, Maria, 1949, et al.
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Managing Masculinity/Mismanaging the Corporation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 19:4, s. 385-404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are numerous accounts of the financial crisis that shocked the Western world in 2008. Almost all the commentaries are steeped in the same cognitive paradigm of linear thinking and assumptions of economic self-interest that could be seen to have created the crisis. While acknowledging the multiplicity of reasons for the crisis and how it should be managed, this article offers an alternative in presenting a gendered perspective that could complement but also challenge some of the conventional wisdom. It suggests a link between managing masculinity and mismanaging the corporation leading to government bailouts for the banks and a near collapse of Western economies. Although new governance and regulation are clearly important responses to the crisis, they do not necessarily get to the root of the problem. A more sociological form of analysis could help us to understand how individual material and symbolic self-interest deriving partly from misrecognition of the self as autonomous but reinforced by masculine fragilities was a major condition of the excesses leading to the crisis. This article explores how this self-interest is not just a reflection of the neo-liberal economic consensus but also of masculine discourses within the business class elite that make the pursuit of ever spiralling remuneration almost obligatory.
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