Recalibrating Management: Feminist Activism to Achieve Equality in an Evolving University

Bendl, Regine; Danowitz, Mary Ann; Schmidt, Angelika

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“…Above all, such a simultaneous multiplicity of understandings of feminist action and equality can offer insights into inclusion and exclusion processes, which may serve a basis for new theoretical advances. 2. Feminism refers to different movements based on different feminist theories aiming at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women.…”

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“…In this paper, therefore, we refocus our attention on feminist activism [2] as, based on feminist theory, it originally paved the way for the inclusion of gender equality in universities before the introduction of managerialism to universities. We examine the forms in which feminist activism is played out at contemporary managerial universities [3] and pose the following question: what notions of feminist activism and feminist theory have to be re-visited in order to sustain the target of gender equality and support its move further into the centre and the mainstream of managerial universities?…”

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Revisiting feminist activism at managerial universities

Bendl

Schmidt

2012

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -In this paper the authors aim to examine the forms in which feminist activism is played out at contemporary managerial universities and pose the following question: what notions of feminist activism and feminist theory have to be revisited in order to sustain the target of gender equality and support its move further into the centre and the mainstream of managerial universities? Design/methodology/approach -Based on action research the authors document a workshop which they organised for different constituencies (administrators, researchers and feminist activists) working towards gender equality at an Austrian university and discuss its results in the context of feminist theory. Findings -The five voices collected at the workshop show that feminist theories are still the underlying guiding principles for feminist activism towards gender equality at managerial universities. As this is the first time that different generations of feminist activists have been present at managerial universities and are working in a top-down environment supported by administrators responsible for gender equality, common practices that have been successful to implement gender equality in the past have to be refined and new spaces for collaboration established. Originality/value -This is the first paper that explores the multiple voices amongst those engaged in the process of transformation towards gender equality at contemporary managerial universities. It shows that an open discussion of complementary and conflicting ways in which the representatives can construct their selves, their strategies and their actions is required in order to start "managing the management" anew -from a higher level than the feminist grassroots activists in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Revisiting feminist activism at managerial universities

Bendl

Schmidt

2012

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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“…Luyckx & Janssens, 2016) or the questioning process itself (e.g. Bendl, Danowitz, & Schmidt, 2014; Drori & Honig, 2013; Riach, Rumens, & Tyler, 2014). Taking the above into account, where does this lead us in terms of knowledge?…”

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“…the influence of the research context on the choice of questions (e.g Luyckx and Janssens, 2016). or the questioning process itself (e.g Riach et al, 2014;Drori and Honig, 2013;Bendl et al, 2014)…”

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Questioning and Organization Studies

Kelemen

Rumens

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2018

Organization Studies

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In organization studies, there is a cleavage in the literature that separates ‘questions’ and ‘questioning’ at a very fundamental philosophical level. On the one hand, the objective notion of ‘questions’ has already been well addressed. On the other hand, the process of ‘questioning’ remains under-researched. Although questioning the process of questioning is challenging, this is precisely where American pragmatism can be helpful. As we explore in this essay, the forward-looking quality of pragmatist inquiry is what motors the process of questioning. Our pragmatist-inflected argument is that questioning does not always have to serve critique and position building in the organization studies field. Rather, questioning out of curiosity can build new dialogue and open up new methodological avenues. This will help change the habitual ways in which we explore ideas, problems and situations in organization studies as well as lead to more democratic forms of organizing.

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“…Movement theorising may, itself, also become part of our research programme (Bendl et al, 2014) to facilitate realist evaluation of ‘what works, for whom, in what circumstances and how’ or, in other words, deciphering the ‘context + mechanism = outcome’ configurations (Pawson and Tilley, 1997) created (or demanded) through movements. In entrepreneurship research, we may take action to build communities of marginalised self-employed and analyse the effect of this on their underlying social relations.…”

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Engaged or Activist Scholarship? Feminist reflections on philosophy, accountability and transformational potential

Rouse

Woolnough

2018

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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Van De Ven’s Engaged Scholarship is becoming institutionalised in the academic profession. His argument that research is radically under-used and more likely to be employed if practitioners engage in shaping research questions and processes is convincing. Nevertheless, Engaged Scholarship has been little critiqued. This article draws on feminist critical realist ontology to compare its philosophy, accountability and transformational potential with a method more familiar to feminism: Activist Scholarship. Engaged Scholarship is found to be underlaboured by a positivist ontology and strong social constructionist epistemology, skewed to the interests of power holders and unlikely to transform underlying social relations. Drawing on Activist Scholarship’s partisan accountability to the marginalised and commitment to collective action, but retaining the possibility of change by engaging power holders, we propose Engaged–Activist Scholarship, a method underlaboured by feminist critical realism, pluralist in its methodology, ambidextrous in its audience and accountable to transforming oppressive contexts.

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Recalibrating Management: Feminist Activism to Achieve Equality in an Evolving University

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Revisiting feminist activism at managerial universities

Revisiting feminist activism at managerial universities

Questioning and Organization Studies

Engaged or Activist Scholarship? Feminist reflections on philosophy, accountability and transformational potential

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