Contending directions. Gender studies in the entrepreneurial university

Hark, Sabine

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.009

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“…Such marginalization is arguably a result of studying a topic (gender) — which has been described, along with race and class, as a ‘zombie’ category that has lost its relevance (Knapp, ). Within an increasingly postfeminist/post‐race cultural landscape, our interest in gender studies and other ‘zombie’ topics can position us as outmoded (Hark, ). Our marginalization also reflects wider marginalization of feminist academics (Van den Brink, ), a continuing concern given the high numbers of women in academia, but the small numbers at senior professorial levels (Morley, ).…”

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“…Such marginalization is arguably a result of studying a topic (gender)which has been described, along with race and class, as a 'zombie' category that has lost its relevance (Knapp, 2005). Within an increasingly postfeminist/post-race cultural landscape, our interest in gender studies and other 'zombie' topics can position us as outmoded (Hark, 2016).…”

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‘We were fighting for our place’: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation

Jones

Vershinina

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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The transformative potential of feminist knowledge in the disciplines of entrepreneurship, business and management has arguably been hindered by persistent gender knowledge regimes that marginalize feminist scholarship and channel widely applicable gender expertise into niche streams, conferences and publication outlets. Whilst offering valuable spaces for feminist knowledge production, removing gender expertise from mainstream fora reduces its centrality to broader debates, maintaining its marginality and limiting its impact. Taking a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we explore the formation and development of a UK‐based organization for feminist entrepreneurship scholars, the Gender and Enterprise Network, as a means of collective resistance to this perpetuation of enforced marginality. Our network challenges extant gender knowledge regimes and offers transformative opportunities within and outside of our respective organizations, providing insights for others wishing to form similar networks and contributing to ongoing debates on the value and valuing of feminist knowledge.

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Section: Motivation For Mobilization: An Active Response To Marginamentioning

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‘We were fighting for our place’: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation

Jones

Vershinina

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Furthermore, since gender equality is connected to the promise of material resources and reputation in Germany, the attention to gender equality policies has increased even among those university leaders who had formerly avoided the issue. Gender equality and gender studies became instrumentalized, became features of excellent organizations, and actually serve to position organizations (Hark, 2016).…”

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Athena’s claim in an academic regime of performativity: Discursive organizing of excellence and gender at the intersection of heterotopia and heteronomia

Wieners

Weber

2020

Management Learning

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From a Foucauldian perspective, we regard “excellence” and “gender” as discourses that become relevant in academia. We analyze the organizational dispositives of “excellence” and “gender” as organizing patterns and rationalities within academic organizations. Beginning with the modern conceptualization of the independent university as a heterotopic space of and for society, the programmatics of the “entrepreneurial university” shift this heterotopic space into a heteronomic one. How do academic professionals bring about discursive organizing of excellence and gender when reflecting on institutional programmatics and organizational strategies for the promotion of early-career academics? What are these early-career academics’ subject positions that are systematically brought about within these organizational strategies? This article discusses two empirical cases involving academic institutions and strategies of discursive organizing. While in the first case of the global player organization, the claim for excellence is made from a position of “already being there,” the second, aspiring organization is still working toward excellence. This article demonstrates that gender discourses in the global player organization are in a marginalized position, while gender discourses in the aspiring organization gain strategic relevance within the organization’s entrepreneurial strategies. This article therefore shows how heterotopic strategies intermingle and intersect with strategies of heteronomic organization of excellence.

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“…Estas diferencias motivacionales son especialmente interesantes, dado que permiten la toma de decisiones sobre políticas y programas de apoyo o incitación del emprendimiento de manera segmentada, esto es, de manera más efectiva y mejor adaptada a las condiciones de los académicos/as. En definitiva, el género es un elemento importante en la predisposición a crear empresas académicas, pues la ratio de mujeres en los puestos más elevados del ámbito académico aún es menor que la de hombres (Klofsten y Jones-Evans, 2000; Díaz-García y Jiménez-Moreno, 2010; Shinnar et al, 2012;Goel et al, 2015;Heidler y Lengersdorf, 2015;Hark, 2016;Hillebrand, 2016;Striedinger et al, 2016), así como en la participación en esta vida laboral académica, traduciéndose en España en una proporción 60-40 a favor de los hombres. A esta limitación ocupacional hay que añadir otro tipo de obstáculos de carácter conductual, sociocultural, de acceso a los beneficios y redes sociales y de acceso a infraestructuras y recursos (Díaz-García y Jiménez-Moreno, 2010; Shinnar et al, 2012;Goel et al, 2015;Hark, 2016;Arshad et al, 2016;Aguado et al, 2016), tales como las estructuras de conciliación negativa, que llevan a la mujer a hacerse cargo en mayor medida de las tareas del hogar y de la crianza, la baja confianza en las propias capacidades, motivadas por elementos socializadores negativos, las actitudes sociales negativas hacia las mujeres (Gupta et al, 2019), tanto desde el punto de vista del liderazgo como desde el punto de vista de la confianza en la cesión de recursos, el menor acceso al crédito y a otros recursos o las menores oportunidades, así como la menor participación de las mismas en las carreras técnicas (Parker, 2004;Aguado et al, 2016), lo cual desemboca en una menor creación real de empresas por parte de las mujeres (Davidsson, 1995).…”

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Vega-Gómez

González

Mera

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En los últimos años, el interés de las universidades y la administración pública por el fenómeno de creación de spin-off ha aumentado como una forma de transferir los resultados de la investigación al sector productivo.Esta creación de spin-off depende de varios factores, y uno de los más importantes es el género. De hecho, el Informe de la Comisión sobre la promoción de las mujeres innovadoras y el espíritu empresarial (2008) muestra que el espíritu empresarial femenino sigue siendo un desafío. En este campo, la literatura es aún escasa y nuestro estudio intenta contribuir a su aumento.Con este objetivo, llevamos a cabo un estudio cualitativo entre 42 académicos para identificar los factores determinantes del emprendimiento académico durante enero de 2017. Nuestros resultados identifican seis factores. Tras la identificación de estos elementos, se ha desarrollado un estudio cuantitativo entre 1,726 académicos (39% mujeres, 61% hombres), con el propósito de obtener la jerarquía de estos determinantes que llevan a los académicos a montar empresas spin-off.La técnica utilizada para el análisis ha sido el análisis conjunto, una técnica que, hasta donde nuestro conocimiento alcanza, no se ha utilizado para el estudio del emprendimiento académico.Nuestros resultados muestran diferencias de género en la jerarquía de los factores del emprendimiento académico, con implicaciones para la gestión de la transferencia de tecnología y para los responsables de las políticas universitarias.

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Contending directions. Gender studies in the entrepreneurial university

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

‘We were fighting for our place’: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation

‘We were fighting for our place’: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation

Athena’s claim in an academic regime of performativity: Discursive organizing of excellence and gender at the intersection of heterotopia and heteronomia

Diferencias en Las Intenciones Y Valoraciones Emprendedoras De Los Académicos Españoles Según Su Género.

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