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The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
(2006)
In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of ...
The Thin End of the Wedge. Foreign Women Professors as Double Strangers in Academia
(2005)
The impetus for this study was an observation that many of the women who obtained the first chairs at European universities were foreigners. Our initial attempt to provide a statistical picture proved impossible, because ...
THE USES OF NARRATIVE IN ORGANIZATION RESEARCH
(2000)
A so-called literary turn in social sciences in general and in organization studies in
particular has resulted in re-discovering the narrative knowledge in organization theory
and practice. Organization researchers ...
Svenska företag i deckarromaner 1943-2001
(2003)
Fiction offers many interesting insights to students of management. In the first place, many novels contain elements of historical ethnographies, portraying the ways of life – and organizing – that vanished in the past. ...
Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City
(2004)
This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, ...
On Time, Space, and Action Nets
(2004)
Laboratory studies, especially those by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986) and Knorr Cetina (1981) proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for students of organizing. Laboratories, however, are mostly reminiscent of ...
Negotiating Selves: Gender
(2006)
This paper suggests a way of framing gender production in workplaces as a negotiation with varying results. The basis for such a frame is a combination of the notions of ”positioning” (the discoursive production of selves, ...
Metaphors and the Cultural Context of organizing
(2001)
When the linguistic turn reached organization studies, it manifested itself in the first place by the interest in metaphors. The crucial role of these tropes for theory building was emphasized, and their place in the very ...
Isolationist Automorphism, Relentless Isomorphism, or Merciless Idealism. The Cultural Context of City Management in Warsaw, Stockholm and Rome
(2001)
This paper employs some results of a study of city management in Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome by setting them in a cultural context. Contrary to the common opinion, the difficulties in effective city management in Warsaw ...
Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction
(2004)
At the peak of the "new economy", the Swedish newspapers were reporting an interesting fact: women were entering financial services, joining not the old-fashioned occupational groups such as bank clerks, but the avant-garde: ...