Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 17 Issue 3

“Don't write about it”: Writing “the other” for the ivory basement

Joan Eveline, Michael Booth

This paper uses ethnographic data from an Australian university to explore constructs of “otherness” focusing on women in lower‐level university work. The work of these women, who…

Entrepreneur‐mentality, gender and the study of women entrepreneurs

Attila Bruni, Silvia Gherardi, Barbara Poggio

Uses the neologism “entrepreneur mentality” – paying implicit homage to Foucault's govermentality – to highlight how an entrepreneurial discourse is mobilized as a system of…

Powerful discourses for social service: A feminist poststructural and action inquiry

Bev Gatenby, Karen Morrison Hume

Describes an action research project in a church affiliated, community‐based social service organisation in Aotearoa, New Zealand, in which feminist and poststructural discourse…

Screwing diversity out of the workers? Reading diversity

Deborah Jones

“Managing diversity” has emerged as a new and contested vocabulary for addressing issues of difference in organisations. This paper uses a New Zealand case study to exemplify a…

Unravelling Woomera: lip sewing, morphology and dystopia

Julie Wolfram Cox, Stella Minahan

Presents a gendered interpretation of reports of protests in 2000‐2002 among asylum seekers held at Australia's recently closed Woomera Detention Centre, discussing instances of…

Contested rationalities, contested organizations: Feminist and postmodernist visions

Catherine Casey

Postmodernist contestations of modernist economic and organizational rationalities have made immense contributions to organizational analysis. A current direction in critical…

Diversity writ large: Forging the link between diverse people and diverse organisational possibilities

Ngaire Bissett

Both postmodernism and corporate culturalism, each in distinctly different ways, have had the effect of suppressing links between diverse populations and identity politics in…

Mary P. Follett: Creating Democracy Transforming Management

Ngaire Bissett