August 2024
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Scandinavian Journal of Management
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Publications (69)
August 2023
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Academy of Management Proceedings
May 2023
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25 Citations
Organization Studies
The Earth is facing extraordinary ecological crises resulting from human impact on the planet. Meanwhile, a growing body of research studies the relationship of organizations with the natural environment but often overlooks anthropocentrism: the premise of human superiority over nature. Unfortunately, this human exceptionalist premise is the crux of the ecological crisis that cannot be overlooked any longer. To address this discrepancy in the literature, we claim that an ontological shift is necessary. Drawing from feminist new materialisms and Deleuzian relational ontologies, we develop becoming naturecultural, a material-discursive assembling process of more-than-human and more-than-capitalist entanglements. To illustrate the analytical value of becoming naturecultural, we engaged in empirical work at an organic cotton t-shirt supply chain and conducted a multi-sited fieldwork with affective ethnographic methodologies. Working with the data collected, we narrated a human de-centered case study fostering critical but affirmative inquiries about sustainability from a non-anthropocentric relational ontology. At the end we discuss two implications for organizational sustainability research: thinking with and writing with becoming naturecultural. They facilitate moving beyond critiques of anthropocentrism and articulating affirmative possibilities for organization studies in and for the Anthropocene.
January 2023
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1 Citation
The Review of Black Political Economy
January 2023
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299 Reads
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3 Citations
January 2023
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8 Citations
August 2022
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Academy of Management Proceedings
May 2022
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278 Reads
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18 Citations
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.
August 2021
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Academy of Management Proceedings
December 2020
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98 Reads
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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”.
Citations (51)
... In the context of women's entrepreneurship, this theory emphasises the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs due to gender inequality. Additionally, it highlights the importance of discussing theories that differentiate male and female socialization and helps to understand gender-based discrimination in entrepreneurship (Calás et al., 2007). The liberal feminist theory supports the argument that achieving rights for women and men is hindered by sociocultural contexts but these hurdles can be gradually reduced through government interventions (Okafor & Amalu, 2010). ...
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February 2007
... Frictions put natural brakes on acceleration; they re-inject attention to local contingencies into the project's constituent organizational features; and they generate a reconnecting movement that shapes the evolution (Riad, 2023). In keeping with Tsing's ecological take, we suggest that this notion of thriving, inherently patchy, may be particularly appropriate for organizational researchers who seek to move beyond the Anthropocene to think and write with 'naturecultures' (Ergene & Calás, 2023). ...
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May 2023
Organization Studies
... 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
... Organizational accounts discuss various explicit and implicit ways in which minorities and bodies marked by intersectional differences become marginalized and silenced in organizations (Lescoat, 2021;Miller, 2021;Priola et al., 2014); isolated in disconnected otherness by normative discourses (Calás & Smircich, 2020). Abdellatif et al. (2021) offer an embodied alter-ethnographic account, whereby by intermingling the authors' experiences as single parents, immigrants in foreign countries, and/or members of the LGBT + community, they engage in a collective effort to unmute how their embodied subjectivities are subjected to silencing attacks and "symbolic annihilation" (Tuchman, 1979) by patriarchal norms and dominant media discourses, amid the pandemic. ...
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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