CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON 'GENDER, ORGANIZATION AND SOCIETY'
Liiketaloudellinen Aikakauskirja - The Finnish Journal of Business Economics
Guest editors Saija Katila, Anne Kovalainen, Susan Meriläinen & Janne Tienari
The question of gender has intrigued organizational and management scholars
in diverse ways. To encourage researchers to share their views on current
organisational / social issues we invite contributions to the special issue
of LTA on 'gender, organization and society'.
We are supposed to live in a gender-neutral world. Nevertheless, the first
act of social categorization when encountering the 'other' is to ascribe a
gender identity. It is an act that is considered natural. However, it
carries assumptions of femininity and masculinity as well as gender roles.
Societal arrangements often reflect these conscious and unconscious
everyday categorizations of gender. Gender positions are manifested in
segregation of jobs, wage gaps, hierarchies, advertising, space
arrangements etc. Gendered assumptions are of cultural and societal origin,
and thus vary across nation-states. There are, however, some striking
similarities across national boundaries.
The relationships between gender, organization and society are highly
complex and problematic. To valorize these complexities we invite
theoretical and/or empirical papers discussing, for example, the following
themes:
- construction of gender in organizations (for example gendered
professional identities, manifestations of masculinities and femininities)
- gender, organizational change and global transformation
- sexuality in organizations
- women and/or gender in management and politics
- gender in advertising and media
Also papers dealing with feminist re-readings of (organization) theories
and cross-national / cross-sectoral comparisons of gender relations are
most welcome. The context of the papers does not have to be focused on
business firms, but can be extended to working life, labour markets or
politics.
We invite all researchers interested in the relationships of gender,
organization and society to submit their papers to the special issue of
LTA, planned to be published as No 3 / 2000.
All papers must be submitted by 30th of November 1999. Please note the LTA
'Information for authors', and submit four hard copies of your paper to the
following address:
Janne Tienari
Helsinki School of Economics
P.O. Box 1210
00101 Helsinki
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Liiketaloudellinen Aikakauskirja - The Finnish Journal of Business
Economics - is a scientific journal. It publishes high quality research
papers and articles on business economics, especially of the interest to
Finnish academicians and business community. In addition to research
papers, the journal publishes discussions of current topics and literature
reviews. The journal is published four times a year by
Liiketaloustieteellinen yhdistys ry.
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