January 2023
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The Review of Black Political Economy
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Publications (56)
January 2023
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January 2023
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8 Citations
August 2022
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Academy of Management Proceedings
May 2022
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Journal of Management Inquiry
COVID-19 is the most immediate of several crises we face as human beings: crises that expose deeply-rooted matters of social injustice in our societies. Management scholars have not been encouraged to address the role that business, as we conduct it and consider it as scholars, has played in creating the crises and fostering the injustices our crises are laying bare. Contributors to this article draw attention to the way that the pandemic has highlighted long-standing examples of injustice, from inequality to racism, gender, and social discrimination through environmental injustice to migratory workers and modern slaves. They consider the fact that few management scholars have raised their voices in protest, at least partly because of the ideological underpinnings of the discipline, and the fact these need to be challenged.
December 2020
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Journal of Management History
Purpose This paper aims to bring to the fore the importance of feminist epistemologies in the history of the organization of management studies since the 1980s by following various intellectual moves in the development of feminist theorizing as they cross over to organization studies, including their analytical possibilities for reclaiming historically the voices of major women scholars, especially in doctoral seminars. The paper narrates these epistemological activities by mobilizing and reconsidering from the past to the present, the notions of “unmuting,” “mutating” and “mutiny.” It ends in a reflection addressing the state of business schools at present and why the field of organization and management studies needs “mutiny” now. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a narrative approach in which the voices of its authors appear to be central as they consider and reconsider over time their understanding of “unmuting,” “mutation” and “mutiny” as notions with analytical potential. This approach is influenced by Foucault’s “history of the present” but with contingencies brought about by feminist interpretations. The application of these notions is demonstrated by reclaiming and clarifying the epistemological underpinning in the works of three major women scholars as included in a doctoral seminar: Mary Parker Follett, Edith Penrose and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These notions are further redeployed for their potential in institutional applications. Findings At present, the findings are discursive – if they can be called so, but the main motivation behind this writing is to go beyond discourse in the written sense, and to mobilize other activities, still in the realm of epistemological and scholarly work. These activities would legitimize actual interventions for changing business schools from their current situation as neoliberal entities, which mute understanding of major problems in the world, as well as the voices of most humans and non-humans paying for the foibles of neoliberalism. Originality/value The paper demonstrates the necessity of developing approaches for interventions in knowledge producing institutions increasingly limited by neoliberal premises in what can be said and done as legitimate knowledge. In doing this, the paper articulates the importance of keeping history alive to avoid the increasing “forgetfulness” neoliberalization brings about. The paper, in its present form, represents an active act of “remembering”.
January 2019
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August 2018
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Research in Organizational Change and Development
Since the late 1980s we’ve been inspired by feminist theorizing to interrogate our field of organization studies, looking critically at the questions it asks, at the underlying premises of the theories allowing for such questions, and by articulating alternative premises as a way of suggesting other theories and thus other questions the field may need to ask. In so doing, our collaborative work has applied insights from feminist theorizing and cultural studies to topics such as leadership, entrepreneurship, globalization, business ethics, issues of work and family, and more recently to sustainability. This text is a retrospective on our attempts at intervening in our field, where we sought to make it more fundamentally responsive to problems in the world we live in and, from this reflective position, considering how and why our field’s conventional theories and practices – despite good intentions – may be unable to do so.
June 2018
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April 2018
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Academy of Management Proceedings
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... The diversity of approaches observed in Brazilian studies is greater than that of studies with female entrepreneurs in India, which were grouped into the following themes: success factors, challenges, factors that attract and motivate women entrepreneurs, and performance measures (Baral et al., 2023). However, no studies from Brazil adopt radical or socialist feminist approaches (Calás et al., 2007;Pettersson et al., 2017); a gap is also observed in other developing countries (Jaim, 2021). Thus, the panorama of Brazilian studies presents varied conceptions of gender and entrepreneurship, aligning with the classification proposed by Serrano-Pascual and Carretero-García (2022). ...
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February 2007
... In practice-based studies a research agenda for questioning fundamental knowledge production practices has been focused on the study of practices producing and reproducing the grand challenges fostering contemporary harms in the world. At the same time, it is important to imagine affirmative possibilities for a world that could become otherwise (Calás & Smircich, 2023). Thus, a posthumanist epistemology of practice theory may approach grand challenges not only in the context of the Anthropocene, inquiring about the practices conducive to extreme contexts but also in elaborating on those more-than-human and more-than-capitalist practices inducing becoming otherwise. ...
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January 2023
... The posthumanist turn has given rise to a novel practice tradition that is mainly concerned with knowledge production and the connection between knowledge and practice: the posthumanist practice theory (Cozza & Gherardi, 2023;Gherardi, 2022;Parolin, 2022;Pellegrinelli & Parolin, 2023;Pellegrinelli, forthcoming). The posthumanist practice theory offers a novel interpretation of practice-based studies (PBS). ...
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January 2023
... In this, Ambedkar's scholarship has a potentially significant role to play in the emergent calls to decolonize business and management studies (Dar et al. 2020;Girei 2017;Mir et al. 1999). It is only by calling out centuries of sedimented oppression that we can even begin to address the depredations of global capitalism in poorer nations. ...
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January 1999
... Contributions in which several scholars come together to comment on a speci c matter of concern. Ana Maria Peredo assembled a group of socially conscientious scholars to re ect on how the global pandemic has exposed the role of business in creating or exacerbating the preexisting social injustices that have historically strati ed society (Peredo et al. 2022). This curated piece illuminated how the pandemic had inequitable impacts on different classes of people. ...
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May 2022
Journal of Management Inquiry
... Feminist epistemologies vary considerably in formulation (cf. Calás & Smircich, 2021;Manning, 2021), but usually consider contribution to knowledge to be personal, relying on the acknowledgment of ignorance, ambivalence, and lack of control (Townley, 2011). They prioritize healing and praxis of communication (Bell et al., 2020). ...
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December 2020
Journal of Management History
... In doing so we advance understandings of how normative and implicit ideas of legitimacy are strengthened and resisted. Further, intersectional misrecognition offers potential for women-in-leadership research which faces critique for its focus on homogeneous, white, middle-class, privileged women (Calás et al., 2017). ...
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November 2017
... It can be characterized by two complementary approaches: 1. genderizing of management and organizational knowledge; and 2. gendered organizations. Calás and Smircich (1991), state that the authorial preponderance of men has resulted in a predominance of masculine thinking in organizational theories, including managerial functions. Furthermore, scholars of gendered organizations have argued that the organizational structure is not neutral on gender but constructed from masculinized assumptions. ...
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January 2019
... The authors' insights for doing "applied" research in collaboration with colleagues suggest the need to discuss practice fortuity, use self-as-instrument, develop and adaptive scholarship orientation and, think and write together regularly. Calás and Smircich (2018) focused on the evolution of their collaboration in generating and applying insights from feminist theorizing and cultural studies to a wide variety of organization behavior and development topics and challenges. Quinn and Cameron (2019), while drawing on the field of positive organizational scholarship, focused on the change agent and advanced a few paths for becoming a positive leader. ...
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August 2018
Research in Organizational Change and Development
... Anthropocene enfolds all forms of life, however there are evident power asymmetries, since it is not humanity as a whole that is responsible for the threats to life, but those (humans, groups, organizations, institutions) who are more central to the circuit of power, as feminist scholars in various disciplines have denounced (Ergene et al., 2018;Gibson-Graham, 2014;Graham & Roelvink, 2010;Haraway, 2016). ...
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August 2017