Archiv 2021
Guest speakers session || WS 2021/22 || Dr. Eline Jammaers & Dr. Sanna Nivakoski (online event)
November 24, 2021 (15:00)
Dr. Eline Jammaers is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business Economics at Hasselt University (Belgium) and guest professor at the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations at UCLouvain (Belgium). Her research interests include diversity in waged employment and entrepreneurship as well as human-animal interactions in business contexts. She has published in international scholarly journals and her work has appeared in Organization Studies, Organization, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Gender, Work and Organization.
Dr. Sanna Nivakoski is a research officer in the Social Policies unit at Eurofound. Before joining Eurofound in 2021, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University College Dublin's Geary Institute for Public Policy, the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has worked in many research areas in microeconomics, including retirement income and wealth, pension saving, intergenerational transfers and the financial impact of widowhood. Sanna holds a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.
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andrea.elizabeth.romo.perez@wu.ac.at
Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift
Momentum Quarterly. 10 (1), 35-47. Vergangene Versprechen der Ersten Republik: Der Zusammenhang sozialer und gleicher Rechte von Minderheiten am Beispiel Kärnten/ Koroška.
Im Beitrag wird, mit Fokus auf die Protokolle der provisorischen Kärntner Landesversammlung und des Kärntner Landesrates, beleuchtet, wie Mitbestimmung, soziale Rechte sowie das Verhältnis von Minderheit(en) und Mehrheit(en) Eingang in eine folgenreiche politische Entscheidung gefunden haben. Dabei wird sichtbar, wie soziale Fragen mit Möglichkeiten des Spracherhalts zusammenhängen. Daran anschließend kann die Abhängigkeit von Minderheitenrechten von der Umsetzungsbereitschaft hegemonialer Gruppen diskutiert werden.
URL: https://www.momentum-quarterly.org/ojs2/index.php/momentum/article/view/3771/2838
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol10.no1.p35-47
EDI Conference 2021
13th-14th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference
12 - 14, July 2021
IOP, University of Bern, Switzerland
Conference Theme: Social Sustainability
Conference contribution: Bendl, Regine, Clar, Maria, Schmidt, Angelika
Re-opening of old and new spaces for feminist activism in Austria.
SCOS Conference, Copenhagen, Dänemark, 05.07.-06.07.2021
We presented a self-reflection on our experiences in an action research project focusing on the analysis of the development of gender equality politics in the Austrian government from 2017 to 2019. With a reflexive autoethnographic approach (Hibbert et al. 2021) we showed findings on roles, emotional experience, drivers, as well as ambivalences and faultlines.
Conference contribution
A conceptual analysis of individualization and gender in telework, flexibility, and working time.
SCOS Conference, Copenhagen, Dänemark, 05.07.-06.07.2021
Telework and flexible work arrangements are widely discussed topics. Even though measurements due to the Covid-19 pandemic pushed them forward, the organizational implementation of these often new ways of work is not generalizable. The aim of this presentation was to connect literature on telework, flexible work arrangements, and working time with individualization and gendered experiences. This linkage gets especially interesting when different aspects of life need to get coordinated, like care responsibilities or other unpaid work with paid work.
Special issue editorial board: Clar, Maria, Muhr, Sara Louise, Reiss, Lea Katharina, Storm, Kai
Unconscious bias in organizations: Discriminatory forces at work.
Women, Gender and Research 3
This special issue revolves around the topic of unconscious bias in organizations. The six articles included draw on diverse disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological approaches to show how unconscious bias play out in organizational settings and how they lead to various forms of discrimination. The articles contribute to the current bias literature by (1) elevating the idea of bias from individualist perspectives toward more contextual considerations, (2) drawing on multiple perspectives from different research fields and thereby creating a more interdisciplinary understanding, (3) considering unconscious and discriminatory gender bias in intersection with other markers of social inequality, and (4) by reframing current understandings of bias in organizations toward a more actionable and change-oriented perspective. To conclude, the special issue illustrates novel approaches to and discussions on the matter of investigating bias at the root of discrimination in organizations.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v32i3.129751
Open Access Link: https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/129751
Buchbeitrag: Bendl, Regine, Clar, Maria, Schmidt, Angelika. 2021
Erodierung gleichstellungspolitischer Errungenschaften für Frauen im österreichischen Kontext.
In: Gleichstellungspolitiken revisited. Zeitgemäße Gleichstellungspolitik an der Schnittstelle zwischen Politik, Theorie und Praxis, Hrsg. Wrowblewski, Angela / Schmidt, Angelika, 19-42. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
ISBN: 987-3-658-35845-7
Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Geschlechterpolitik im Kontext der Bundesregierung Kurz I (2017-2019). Eingebettet in theoretisch-konzeptionelle Diskussionen zu ‚Antifeminismus‘, ‚Backlash‘ und ‚Antigenderismus‘ werden Ergebnisse aus einem Action Research Projekt mit gleichstellungspolitischen Akteurinnen und feministischen Aktivistinnen zur Geschlechterpolitik der Bundesregierung Kurz I mithilfe des analytischen Rahmens von ‚Gender at Work‘ (Rao et al, 2016) präsentiert. Reflexive Praktiken als zukünftige Handlungsoptionen und abschließende Gedanken, die ‚Postfeminismus‘ als notwendigen weiteren Analyserahmen einführen, um aktuelle Entwicklungen zu verstehen, runden den Beitrag ab.
Conference contribution: Bendl, Regine, Clar, Maria, Schmidt, Angelika
Emergence of goverment-led backlash for gender equality in Austrian contexts and its impact.
Gender, Work and Organization Conference, Kent, UK, 30.06.-02.07.2021
Based on our Austrian data, we showed that in the context of antifeminism, backlash, antigenderism, and postfeminism different notions are necessary to advocate for established gender equality. First, the importance for strengthening existing gender equality measures, processes, and structures, second a revival of previous places or opening and establishing new places of exchange, third a form of transmission of experiences and narratives, and fourth the search for new narratives for resistance and development that encompass all generations and needs.
Research Seminar || SS 2021|| Elizabeth Mesok (University of Basel)
Elizabeth Mesok (University of Basel): Sexual Violence against Men and Women in the US Military
on Tuesday, June 15th, 2021, 13.30-16.30, MS Teams
Abstract: This article considers the ways in which military women’s rights campaigns have linked the “epidemic” of sexual violence to the struggle for military women’s equality. I analyze the approaches of the National Organization of Women (NOW) and Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) in order to trace a partial history of military women’s rights organizations built on liberal feminist ideals. I argue that understanding military sexual violence as a result of women’s inequality does nothing to explain sexual violence against men, as well as occludes global victims of US sexual and imperial violence. Ultimately, I argue that organizations such as SWAN are emblematic of a neoliberal feminist approach that problematically prioritizes women’s equal access to the military over a critique of US militarism.
Speaker: Elizabeth Mesok is an SNF PRIMA Grantee at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel, where she leads a five-year research project looking at how gender mattes within the global counterterrorism security architecture known as the preventing and countering violent extremism agenda. She completed her Ph.D. in American Studies in 2013 and her M.A. in Politics in 2007, both from New York University. From 2013-2015 she was a postdoctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University and a seminar associate in the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence. From 2015-2016, she held a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, where she taught courses in gender and sexuality studies, social and political theory, and the global history of U.S. militarism.
After relocating to Switzerland, Mesok was a senior researcher and program officer at swisspeace, where she was the lead researcher on the project, “Civil Society Implementation of the Swiss National Action Plan 1325,” which focused on women, gender, and violence prevention. In Switzerland, she has also taught courses on gender, peace, and security in the Department of Political Science at the University of Basel and in the Department of Political Science/International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Her publications can be found in the edited volumes Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics and Managing Sex in the U.S. Military, and in the journals Radical History Review and Feminist Studies. Her article “Sexual Violence and the U.S. Military: Feminism, U.S. Empire, and the Failure of Liberal Equality,” won the 2016 Claire Moses Goldberg Award.
Research Seminar || SS 2021|| Mary Yoko-Brannen (University of Victoria)
Mary Yoko-Brannen (University of Victoria): Migrants as Boundary Spanners in Global Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities
on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, 16.00-19.00, MS Teams
Abstract: Migrants often carry with them mixed cultural identities giving them access to unique skills including language and cultural intelligence not often shared by host-country nationals (Brannen & Thomas, 2010; Brannen, 2020). As bicultural individuals who identify with two (or sometimes more) distinct cultures, they are ideally suited as intercultural knowledge brokers who can help to facilitate the joint understanding, development and refinement of novel ideas between individuals located across a firm’s global footprint (Brannen & Thomas, 2010; Brannen & Doz, 2012). Being able to sense new knowledge from around the world and to communicate it effectively to key individuals within and across an MNC’s organizational boundaries are considered essential resources for ensuring sustainable competitive advantage (Doz, Santos & Williamson, 2001). Migrants often possess these abilities. But, firms rarely recognize, legitimize or reward for them. Moreover, the migrants themselves often don’t know they have them. In this talk, Professor Brannen will elaborate on these various skillsets, explicit as well as tacit, that can enable migrants to act as important boundary spanners in global organizational contexts and explicate the psychological, behavioral and structural processes that are required to help them fulfill these roles.
Speaker: Mary Yoko Brannen is Honorary Professor of International Business at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark having been awarded honorary doctorate in 2016 and Professor Emerita from San José State University, California, U.S.A. She previously held the Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) Chair of Cross-Cultural Management at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She has served as a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, Stanford University, California, U.S.A, and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. She currently sits on the Advisory Boards of the Master of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University in the U.S. She was appointed Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2016 having served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies for two consecutive elected terms (2011-2016).
As an organizational ethnographer, Professor Brannen’s research is centered around understanding the effects of multiple cultural contexts on individuals and the organizations in which they are employed. Her work, cited over 5000 times, asks: How do language and culture affect today’s complex cultural organizations and the people they employee? What are the effects of today’s new workplace demographic brought on by unprecedented migration and mobility? What is biculturalism, multiculturalism, and global cosmopolitanism and how do they differ? What are the unique challenges such individuals face? What are their equally unique gifts that often have been overlooked and underappreciated in our society and work organizations? Through her understanding of the challenges and special gifts of this new demographic, Professor Brannen sheds light on the experiences of all who do not fit comfortably within a mainstream way of life and the array of opportunities such individuals bring to organizations. Born and raised in Japan, having studied in the US, France and Spain, and having worked as a cross-cultural consultant for over 40 years to various Fortune 100 companies Professor Brannen brings a multi-faceted, deep knowledge of today’s complex cultural business environment.
Dr. Romo Pérez Presenting at the Latin American Studies Association Congress 2021
On May 27, 2021, Dr. Romo Pérez presented her research on police officers and female offenders’ experiences and perceptions of corruption at the Latin American Studies Association (virtual) Congress (LASA). Dr. Romo participated in the panel “Criminal Justice System and Police Trust In Latin America” together with three expert scholars from across the region. More information about the program can be found here.
Guest speakers session || SS 2021|| Dr. Eddy Ng, Dr. Bharati Sethi & Dr. Rosemary Vito (online event)
May 20, 2021 (15:00)
Dr. Eddy Ng has recently joined Queen’s University as the Smith Professor of Equity and Inclusion in Business. He is the James & Elizabeth Freeman Professor of Management and DEI Faculty Fellow at Bucknell University and was previously the F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business at Dalhousie University. His research focuses on managing diversity for organizational competitiveness, the future of work, and managing across generations. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants. He has edited and published 6 books and more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and monographs. He has been featured in popular media outlets in Canada and the U.S. such as the CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, ABC News, CBS News, VOX, and NPR. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and an Associate Editor of the journal Personnel Review. He is currently the Program Chair for the Gender and Diversity in Organizations division of the Academy of Management.
Dr. Bharati Sethi is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, King's University College, at Western University, Canada. She utilizes collaborative arts-based methods to highlight social determinants of health in immigrants' and refugees' lives and capture their relevance to social justice. She has contributed to 50 peer-reviewed publications and one edited book and delivered over 75 public presentations in the last ten years. Her research projects (totalling 4.5 million dollars in SSHRC-CIHR funding) (The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canadian Institute of Health Research). All these funded projects have earned her several prestigious community and academic awards, including the Early Career Researcher Award, Citizens Award, and Governor General's Award. She has contributed to print and digital media including the London Free Press, Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star, and CBC on racism and racialization.
Dr. Rosemary Vito is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, King’s University College, at Western University, Canada. Her teaching and research interests include mental health policy and practice, social work supervision, field instruction, leadership practice and development, organizational culture and change in human services. She has 20+ years of experience as a clinical supervisor, social worker, service development lead, and community board member in children’s mental health organizations. She has authored and contributed to 15 peer-reviewed publications, 16 peer-reviewed conference presentations, and 18 invited community presentations. She has received 4 King’s research grants totalling $14,000 and 11 graduate scholarships totalling $77,500.
For more information related to the session please contact
andrea.elizabeth.romo.perez@wu.ac.at
Research Seminar || SS 2021|| Hans Hansen (Texas Tech University)
Hans Hansen (Texas Tech University): The aesthetics of leadership success and failure
on Tuesday, May 11th, 2021, 16.00-19.00, MS Teams
Abstract: This paper explores the aesthetics of leadership success and failure. We conducted a qualitative study where we analyzed 64 leadership narratives and asked leaders to reflect on their feelings relating to personal accounts of leadership success and failure. Our data revealed that it is not any set of emotions that determined perceived leadership success or failure, but whether or not the leader managed to act when faced with a leadership challenge. From our data, we infer that taking action, or not, was associated with leader’s sensory perceptions in applying their aesthetic schema when making sense of their experience, a consideration of others in the leadership situation, and the quality of their connection to those others. We develop an inductive model of the aesthetics of leadership success and failure.
Speaker: Hans Hansen is an associate professor at Texas Tech University (Rawls College of Business). He has received his PhD at the university of Texas. His areas of expertise include organizational theory, organizational aesthetics, and qualitative methods. He is the author of countless journal articles in the field of management studies. He won several AOM awards (e.g. Best Paper Award Critical Management Studies, Best Paper Research Methods). He is well known for his work on compassionate research methods. He serves as a reviewer for Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Human Relations, Management Learning, and Organization Studies, among others.
Research Seminar || SS 2021|| Chris St Pourçain
Chris St Pourçain: Workshop: Writing and Publishing Academic Papers
on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021, 13.30-18.30, MS Teams
Workshop: Writing and Publishing Academic Papers
Writing research papers is difficult, and the process of publishing them can be confusing, even for established researchers.
This interactive workshop will introduce the writing skills and knowledge you need to:
Write more effective research papers.
Understand how research papers are assessed and published.
Choose the right journal for your paper.
Workshop Overview
Writing style
The structure of research papers
Effective writing
How research papers are peer-reviewed
How to choose a journal
Trainer: Dr. Chris St Pourçain is a former university lecturer who worked for 13 years in chemistry research and teaching in British universities. This was followed by ten years managing research grant funding processes and peer review for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in the UK. Chris is now an experienced freelance academic editor and trainer based in Germany.
Research Seminar || SS 2021|| Jan Ketil Arnulf (BI Norwegian Business School)
Jan Ketil Arnulf (BI Norwegian Business School): Predicting survey responses in Organizational Behavior (OB) before they happen: How text algorithms can help us explore the difference between empirical and semantic relationships and move our science forwards
on Tuesday, April 27th, 2021, 13.30-16.30, MS Teams
Abstract: Research in some social science disciplines such as OB rely heavily on data from Likert-scale surveys. These data are commonly used for modelling relationships between variables, often referred to as “latent constructs”. Through the use of digital text algorithms, such survey data have been found to be predictable a priori. The relationships between variables such as leadership, motivation, engagement, well-being and training interventions can be modelled using the survey item texts alone, with no knowledge about how humans might respond. Such models have been found to predict up to 86% of the variance in the data sampled from human subjects.
In this presentation, he will briefly present the technology and an overview of the research publications so far, including areas where the approach does not seem to work. This will include topics such as leadership, personality, cross-cultural research, linguistic relativity and existing attempts at replacing Likert scales with free text analysis.
Finally, he will outline some perspectives on the future of this research field: The modelling and construction of constructs, why the term “nomological networks” could be replaced by the term “semantic networks”, and establishing testing grounds for scales.
Speaker: Jan Ketil Arnulf is a full professor of organizational and industrial psychology at BI Norwegian Business School. Now he is serving as Dean Executive at BI, the academic head of the school’s executive programs. Earlier he served two periods as Associate Dean of our joint MBA program with Fudan University in Shanghai, China. His main areas of teaching and research are leadership and leadership development, global leadership, language, and digital technology for language analysis. He has extensive experience as a practitioner in the field of leadership development to companies in the private and public sector.
Guest speaker session || SS 2021|| Dr. Erin A. Cech (online event)
April 27, 2021 (11:30)
Dr. Erin A. Cech is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Assistant Professor by courtesy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. In 2016, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and was on faculty at Rice University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology back in 2011 from the University of California, San Diego and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University.
Cech's research examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction--specifically, how inequality is reproduced through processes that are not overtly discriminatory or coercive, but rather those that are built into seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices. She uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine inequality in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professions--specifically, the recruitment and retention of women, LGBT, and under-represented racial/ethnic minority students and practitioners and the role of professional cultures in this inequality.
Cech’s research has been funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology and her research has been cited in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Time, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Forbes, Chronicle of Higher Education and the news sections of Science and Nature.
For more information related to the session please contact
andrea.elizabeth.romo.perez@wu.ac.at
Research Seminar || SS 2021|| Frank DE BAKKER (IÉSEG School of Management)
Frank De Bakker (IÉSEG School of Management): Emancipation Through Entrepreneurship: Mobilizing Social Embeddedness To Counter The Mafia
on Tuesday, April 20th,2021, 13.30-16.30, MS Teams
Abstract: Scholars have been emphasizing for long the economic advantages entrepreneurs can gain by being embedded in their social context. While most studies looking at social embeddedness and entrepreneurship focus on how social ties and structures facilitate entrepreneurial activity, some also point at how the social context and entrepreneurship influence each other, especially under adverse environmental circumstances. Constraining conditions of social embeddedness have been discussed in terms of negative implications for entrepreneurship but have also been used to contextualize the emancipatory power of entrepreneurship, examining the transformational change that extends to social or institutional spheres. Despite several advancements, a gap still exists in understanding if and how entrepreneurship could retain its emancipatory force when embedded in a social structure that oppresses and severely limits individual agency to act entrepreneurially. Thus, we ask: When social embeddedness is constraining individual freedom to engage in entrepreneurial activity, how does entrepreneurship contribute to overcoming those constraints and changing the social context in which it unfolds? Combining different lenses, we develop a framework for contextualizing the emancipatory role of entrepreneurship and expanding our understanding of its relationship with its embedding social context. We then report on a rich case study of an Italian entrepreneurial venture, GOEL, that operates in an extremely unfavorable social context of oppressive institutionalized (mafia) crime with the objective to alter that unfavorable context through entrepreneurial activity. We thus illustrate our framework and contribute to the literature on social embeddedness and entrepreneurship by providing a better understanding of how both concepts are related. We then contextualize the emancipatory process of entrepreneurial activity and add to the debate on the emancipatory power of entrepreneurship theorizing. Creating and disseminating a shared image of a liberated community, supported by proof of success and pragmatic non-violent social action, challenges the historically-rooted and mafia-oriented social structure and enables the capacities of both the entrepreneurs and the community members to drive change.
Speaker: Frank G.A. de Bakker is a full professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at IÉSEG School of Management and a member of the research laboratory Lille Economics Management (LEM-CNRS 9221) in Lille, France. He coordinates the IÉSEG Centre for Organizational Responsibility (ICOR). De Bakker received his PhD from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In his research he examines the role of CSR managers within firms and the interactions between activists and firms on issues of corporate social responsibility. Since 2017 he is a co-editor of Business & Society and he sits on several editorial boards. His work has been published in journals like Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies and many more. Twitter: @frankdebakker
Guest speaker session || SS 2021|| Dr. Maria Tsouroufli (online event)
March 23, 2021 (10:00)
Dr. Maria Tsouroufli is Professor of Education, Department of Education, College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences, Brunel University London, UK. Her research and teaching interests are in gender, intersectionality, identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to teacher, academic and medical professionals. Her research topic and expertise also include school related gender-based violence; academic motherhood, gender, neo-liberalism and higher education in Europe. Her formation, research and employment has spanned health and medical sociology, organization studies, education and gender and women's studies. Her international and interdisciplinary research has been informed mainly by feminist post-structuralist approaches to education and medical education policy, power and resistance. She has led and has been involved in internally and externally funded research projects conducted in Britain, Europe and Australia employing a variety of methodologies (ethnography, narratology) and methods (quantitative/qualitative and mixed-method) on a wider range of equality and diversity issues. She has authored and co-authored over 20 articles. She holds a PhD in Gender and Education from University of Southampton, UK.
For more information related to the session please contact
andrea.elizabeth.romo.perez@wu.ac.at
Published Research Paper on Police Sexual Misconduct: Romo Pérez, Andrea
The paper entitled “Trading sex for shampoo: exploring machismo in police officers and female offenders’ experiences and perceptions of police sexual misconduct”, authored by Assistant Prof. Andrea Romo Pérez was published in the international high impact journal “Policing and Society”. The publication can be found here.