Kelly Dye

Acadia University · School of Business

A distinct demarcation between conventional opportunity entrepreneurs and variously defined necessity entrepreneurs exists in the developmental entrepreneurship literature. We argue that these distinctions are problematic and have the potential to limit necessity entrepreneurs through policy and practice aimed at those who are most often constructe...

Drawing upon postcolonial and postcolonial feminist lenses, this study critically analyzes the discourses, evident in the popular press, that serve to construct identities associated with veil-wearing Muslim women. Through print and digital media articles from January 2009 to December 2011, we trace the discursive character of the veil-wearing Musl...

A qualitative analysis of interviews with 16 stakeholders explores the importance of organisational capacity to the success of the Nova Scotia wine industry. Using Horton et al.'s (2003) framework as a guide, criticality of personnel, industry training, cross training and access to capital were among a number of concerns noted by respondents.

Purpose The notion of organizations as gendered is not new yet critical gaps in the understanding of the processes responsible for the creation and maintenance of these gendered organizations still exist. Within the existing breadth and depth of feminist organizational scholarship an increasing number of researchers have been drawn to Joan Acker's...

Findings of an extensive archival study of Pan American Airways (PAA) strongly support Acker's (1990) notion of the presence and importance of a dominant discourse of organizing logic in structuring a gendered order. Findings also demonstrate that the presence of alternative, but not necessarily feminist, discourses can serve to upset the gender or...

Findings of an extensive archival study of Pan American Airways (PAA) strongly support Acker's (1990) notion of the presence and importance of a dominant discourse of organizing logic in structuring a gendered order. Findings also demonstrate that the presence of alternative, but not necessarily feminist, discourses can serve to upset the gender or...

This article explores the potential of Hermans' Valuation Theory and his related psychotherapeutic technique, the Self-Confrontation Method, for organizational change interventions. We begin by identifying gaps in the organizational change literature, specifically the relative absence of methods for assessing the deeper levels underlying the cultur...

Practicing managers, the users and consumers of management theory, are not applying theories as we understand them. They are using an ontologically based version of theory that is only tenuously related to its epistemological origins. We will show that for the management practitioner Lewin's most famous dictum is wrong - and that there really is no...

Purpose – This paper aims to build on recent work in the field of management and historiography that argues that management theorizing needs to be understood in its historical context. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper attempts to show how a steady filtering of management theory and of the selection and work of management theorists le...