Analysis of the Role of Sport in the Management Textbook: A Study of Sports Images in Organizational Behavious Textbooks from 1992 to 2011

Weigand, Heidi; Mills, Albert J.

doi:10.17265/2332-7839/2015.05.008

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“…Our interest in analyzing the social position of entrepreneurs as they are portrayed in management texts resulted in an extensive search from within a repository 3 of approximately 555 business textbooks with a range of focus and subject areas. Spanning nearly two decades, the collection, which began as a part of a much larger research collective studying North American textbooks from various disciplinary perspectives (e.g., agribusiness, sport management, and management history), has been used to contribute to important debates in MOS (e.g., Arseneault et al, 2019; Hartt, 2018; Weigand and Mills, 2015; Williams and Mills, 2019). The material spans every decade from the 1920s to the present and continues to be curated through solicited and unsolicited additions from publishers, discarded copies from colleagues’ office libraries and second-hand purchases from online bookstores.…”

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Damsels in distress: Discourses of entrepreneurship in management textbooks

Richard

Deal

Mills

2021

Industry and Higher Education

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The purpose of this study is to provide insight into the discursive foundations of entrepreneurial identity for women in Canada by examining the social positions, representations and spaces they take in introductory business textbooks. We ask three questions: (1) What issues of power and discourses related to gender are subsumed in Canadian textbooks? (2) In what way is gender represented in texts of entrepreneurship in Canadian management education? (3) How are women portrayed in entrepreneurship texts? The data that we draw upon comes from 13 Canadian management textbooks that have been used in introductory business courses to teach students about the functions of business. By narrowing in on content in entrepreneurship education, we use poststructural feminism as a lens to interrogate gendered discourses that influence what and how students are taught about the ideals of entrepreneurship in undergraduate business programs in Canada. Our findings suggest that the entrepreneurship texts studied were overly gendered in masculine terms, serving to privilege the experience of male business while simultaneously marginalizing the representation of women entrepreneurs. We argue that marginalizing women in textbooks may form barriers to their interest and participation in entrepreneurial pursuits, and thereby call on scholars and practitioners to reconsider the importance of equality in materials used in the classroom.

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Damsels in distress: Discourses of entrepreneurship in management textbooks

Richard

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Mills

2021

Industry and Higher Education

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“…A plurality of what remained were books either published in Canada and, in like manner, aimed for the sole use in the Canadian management education context or authored by Canadian scholars in the French language used throughout French-speaking Canadian business schools. The textbooks included in this collection have played a part in the publication of several studies (Mills and Helms Hatfield, 1998;Dye et al, 2005;McLaren and Mills, 2008a;McLaren et al, 2009;Weigand and Mills, 2015;Hartt, 2018).…”

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Reading “Canadian” management in context: development of English and French education

Arseneault

Deal

Mills

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the pluralist contours of Canadian management “knowledge” using the discourse “official” bilingualism – the English and French languages – to understand the impact of socio-historical-political differences on the development of management knowledge production. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon an archival collection of management textbooks as historical data, the authors critically explore and analyze the development of Canadian “schools” and management theory. Using narrative analysis and critical hermeneutics, the paper considers the socio-historical-political context of the various “Canadian” scholars that sought to establish a unique business academy distinct but paradoxically akin to the management schools in the USA. Findings Mirroring the struggle of Francophones in a dominant English imperative, French management textbooks appeared decades later than English titles. When French texts began to disseminate, it remained in the shadows of American management ideologies. Research limitations/implications As only Canadian organizational behavior texts published within the previous 50 years were used as data in this study, it may be incautious to draw broader conclusions. The empirical element of this research relied upon convenience sampling of textbooks. Practical implications Management educators weld a considered level of socio-political power that they may or may not knowingly possess, especially in terms of selecting a textbook and other course materials. Regardless of background, management students are somewhat a “tabula rasa;” open to learning new content to make sense of the world. This “open state” places a great deal of responsibility on the professorate in shaping management students’ theoretical understanding of everyday life in organizations. The authors suggest practitioners be reflexive, aware of how textbooks serve as an important vehicle in education that in times past, have promoted or reified mono-cultural agendas. Originality/value The research in this paper builds on recent research that considers the role of socio-historical-political context in how management knowledge and theory is performed, as well as contributes to understanding textbooks in how they may shape a pluralist account of Canadian management “knowledge”.

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Analysis of the Role of Sport in the Management Textbook: A Study of Sports Images in Organizational Behavious Textbooks from 1992 to 2011

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Damsels in distress: Discourses of entrepreneurship in management textbooks

Damsels in distress: Discourses of entrepreneurship in management textbooks

Reading “Canadian” management in context: development of English and French education

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