Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 18 Issue 6

Gender in change: gendering change

Stephen Linstead, Joanna Brewis, Alison Linstead

To provide a critical review of existing contributions to gender and change management and in doing so highlight how organizational change needs to be read more readily from a…

Women in change management: Simone De Beauvoir and the co‐optation of women's Otherness

Melissa Tyler

To consider Simone De Beauvoir's account of woman as Other, and particularly the appropriation of sexual difference, with reference to the gendered bifurcation and hierarchical…

Marks and Spencer–waiting for the warrior: A case examination of the gendered nature of change management

Ann Rippin

This paper aims to explore the gendered narratives of change management at Marks and Spencer (M&S) and uses them as a lens to consider the gendered nature of the change process…

New meanings for entrepreneurs: from risk‐taking heroes to safe‐seeking professionals

Ulla Hytti

To underline that viewing entrepreneurship in the context of shifting career roles and professional identities, gendered organizational life and in the current societal context…

Men working differently: accessing their inner‐feminine

Sallyanne Miller

To present an account of changes in the behaviour of male bank managers who were engaged in action learning groups whose focus was on improving service quality and leadership…

Shifting forms of masculinity in changing organizations: the role of testicularity

Lynne F. Baxter, Alasdair MacLeod

This paper seeks to utilize the concept of testicularity put forward by Flannigan‐Saint‐Aubin to explain a shift in the hegemonic masculinities in two organizations which were…

Woman in the ivory tower: Gendering feminised and masculinised identities

Joan Eveline

To challenge dualistic concepts of masculinity and femininity via a case for understanding gender as a verb.