Dear all,
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Call for papers: 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary conference, 24th – 26th June, 2014, Keele University, UK
Call for abstracts
Gender, boards and senior management
• Corporate gender regimes: theorising challenges and achievements of women directors
• The role of policy and legislation discourses on women in power positions
• Theorising and debating quotas
• Critical perspectives on gender diversity on boards and the business case
• Dynamics and behavioural perspectives on the boardroom
• Does size matter? Experiences of female directors in small and medium companies
• Does industry matter? Horizontal segregation
• Global leaders: women in power in the international context
• Minority women on boards
• Intersectionality and board diversity
• The embodied experience of female directors
• Balancing personal and professional life ‘at the top’
• Too feminine, not feminine enough? The tight rope of gendered stereotype
• The male perspective on transforming the boardroom
This list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive. We are interested in private AND public sectors experiences of women in senior positions of power.
Contributors may choose to draw on material from a wide range of empirical spheres, theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations. Papers can be theoretical or theoretically informed empirical work. We welcome papers from any national context.
Abstracts of approximately 500 words (ONE page, Word document NOT PDF, single spaced, excluding references, no header, footers or track changes) are invited by 1st November 2013. All abstracts will be peer reviewed. New and young scholars with 'work in progress' papers are welcomed. Abstracts should be emailed to: [log in to unmask] should include FULL contact details, including your name, department, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. State the title of the stream to which you are submitting your abstract.
Many thanks,
Maria
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