Intersectionality as a new perspective in international business research

Zander, Lena; Gaffney, Seán; Olsson, Jeanette

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2010.09.011

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“…On a similar note, our binary variables may not have captured the finer nuances of similarity and dissimilarity -one can only speculate, but it may be that our findings apply also to managers who come from relatively similar cultural or functional backgrounds (e.g., from countries which have a low cultural distance). More research is called for examining similarities -and their relative impacts -originating from different cultural background combinations and degrees of likeness, a wider variety of demographic characteristics, and their intersections (see e.g., Zander, Zander, Gaffney, & Olsson, 2010). Second, while we build on the assumption that knowledge sharing is a reciprocal relationship-level phenomenon, our data has been collected from one side of the relationship only.…”

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confidence: 99%

Interpersonal similarity and knowledge sharing within multinational organizations

Mäkelä

Andersson

Seppälä

2012

International Business Review

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Interpersonal similarity and knowledge sharing within multinational organizations

Mäkelä

Andersson

Seppälä

2012

International Business Review

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“…For more nuanced understanding of multiple identity construction, some have explicitly integrated intersectionality with identity theories. Zander and colleagues () propose research on multiple social group membership to shed light on individuals’ identification processes and career patterns in multinational corporations. Azmitia and colleagues () illustrate emerging adults’ construction of multiple identities over time.…”

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Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations: Introducing ‘Intersectional Identity Work’

Atewologun

Sealy²,

Vinnicombe³

2015

Gender Work & Organization

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Little consensus exists regarding conducting intersectional studies. We introduce 'intersectional identity work' as an approach for examining individuals' experiences at the nexus of multiple identities. Incorporating identity work as a theoretical and analytical framework, we use journals and interviews to examine identity-heightening episodes that trigger meaning-making of intersecting senior, gender and ethnic identities among British Asian and black women and men. Our analysis reveals how intersecting identities are leveraged in encounters with subordinates, superiors and clients. Intersectional locations provide resources and cues for claiming or restricting privileged and disadvantaged status in asymmetric power positions. Intersectional identity work expands and restricts identification at juxtaposed locations. It offers a prospect for elucidating intersectional dynamics present in a range of identity configurations and addresses critiques that individual-level intersectional analyses at intersections are mere narrative. We encourage further research that examines other socially salient identities using our approach to develop theory on how multiple identities play out in everyday experience.Keywords: intersectionality, identity work, methodology, ethnicity, gender Introduction C onducting intersectional studies is a primary focus of debate in feminist scholarship across legal, political, sociological and psychological disciplines. Yet there is minimal consensus regarding exactly how one conducts such research. Explicit methodological guidelines are elusive (Nash, 2008), conducting it challenging (Browne and Misra, 2003), complicated and 'fraught with dangers ' (Healy et al., 2010, p. 4). We contribute to the conversation regarding developing a new approach befitting this influential framework conceptualizing the complexity of simultaneous identity and subject positions. We propose incorporating identity work as a theoretical lens and analytical framework into intersectionality research, due to its focus on explicating everyday experiences of self-identification. Adopting an individual constructivist perspective, we utilize identity work -the effort engaged in personal meaning-making -as an orienting device for analysing/making sense of intersecting identities. We conduct intersectional analyses of identity-heightening experiences of senior black and Asian male and female professionals in Britain. Using an identity work lens, we contribute to the debate on elucidating intersectional dynamics by revealing how intersecting identities are engaged as cues and resources, expanding and restricting power positions in asymmetrical interactions with clients, subordinates and superiors.We provide an overview of approaches to conducting intersectional research, including critiques regarding descriptive approaches of individual-level treatments of intersectionality. We

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“…In that respect, it is relevant here to ‘move on from gender’ as a single‐defining category (Collins, ) because other categories overlap in ways that affect skilled migrant women in unique, more fluid, complex and multidimensional ways than what each individual form of inequality would do (Anthias, ; Holvino, ; Hulko, ; Phoenix & Pattynama, ). The previous discussion serves as the starting point to our argument that in the case of skilled migrant women in the Middle East, gender and foreignness seem an important point of intersection to explore in order to understand the power dynamics that underpin rigidities and realities of inequalities, mobility restrictions and lack of progression that have a disproportionate effect on their experiences in this region (Kofman & Raghuram, ; Zander et al, ).…”

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“…Our definition encompasses a range of perspectives and areas of research, which is reflected in our review of the literature. Moreover, we seek to challenge dominant perspectives of skilled migration, which do not interrogate the impact of intersecting social categories (Zander, Zander, Gaffney, & Olsson, ). In doing so, we enable a deeper and more critical understanding of the experiences of skilled migrant women, locating them within the ‘historically and socially constituted mosaic of intersecting differences’ (Metcalfe & Woodhams, , p. 134).…”

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Female and foreign: An intersectional exploration of the experiences of skilled migrant women in Qatar

Rodríguez

Scurry

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores how the intersection of gender and foreignness shapes the experiences of skilled migrant women. Drawing on interviews with skilled migrant women working in Qatar, we situate their experiences in institutional, organizational and sociocultural terms to show how the intersection is articulated and mobilized to subordinate, marginalize and exclude them in work and social spaces. Findings show that the intersection is used to reinforce the status of the women as outsiders to the country (foreignness) and its cultural order (gender), resulting in structural and qualitative differences in the experiences of the group. In highlighting their nuanced experiences, we contribute to debates about gender, skilled migration and work in the Middle East. We also contribute to intersectionality debates by expanding the conceptual limits and analytical use of social categories of difference to explain experiences of work and unpack the simultaneity of subject positioning within institutional, organizational and sociocultural dynamics.

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Intersectionality as a new perspective in international business research

Cited by 39 publications

References 31 publications

Interpersonal similarity and knowledge sharing within multinational organizations

Interpersonal similarity and knowledge sharing within multinational organizations

Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations: Introducing ‘Intersectional Identity Work’

Female and foreign: An intersectional exploration of the experiences of skilled migrant women in Qatar

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