Organizing the past: A history and its (de)construction

Thomas, Alan

doi:10.1080/10245289908523524

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“…As Kilduff and Keleman (2004) argue, there are benefits from revisiting classic texts in order to both recover and challenge discourses of theory and practice. Similarly, from Thomas (2003), while text can be seen to be reflective of a specific time and place, insights can be drawn from ‘reflexive commentary’ that surfaces hidden interpretations and voices. We have accordingly, through a poststructuralist rereading of Kanter's (1977) Men and Women of the Corporation , challenged her interpretations based on the liberal feminist perception of gender‐neutral organizational structures.…”

Section: Future Researchmentioning

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Kanter Revisited: Gender, Power and (In)Visibility

Lewis

Simpson

2011

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper revisits Kanter's (1977) seminal work Men and Women of the Corporation, rereading her account of numerical advantage and disadvantage through a poststructuralist lens which exposes hidden dimensions of gendered power. This lens is captured in the ‘(In)visibility Vortex’ (Lewis and Simpson, 2010) which highlights struggles and tensions around the norm through processes of preservation and concealment within the norm as well as dynamics of revealing, exposure and disappearance as features of the margins. The study draws on developments in feminist theorizing, specially around visibility, invisibility and power, to facilitate this rereading. In so doing, the author demonstrate that while Kanter retreated from explanations based on the gendering of organizations or from recognition of gendered power, these dynamics can be identified in her text. The authors suggest that rereading classic texts can surface dimensions of organizations that have contemporary significance and can inform future research.

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Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kanter Revisited: Gender, Power and (In)Visibility

Lewis

Simpson

2011

Int J Management Reviews

111

150

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“…Our analysis is influenced by critiques of organizational history that emphasize its``rhetorical'' and``fictional'' nature (De Certeau, 1988;Thomas, 1999;Rowlinson and Hassard, 1993;White, 1980). Proponents of this critique hold that while organizational events do indeed happen, they only become meaningful to participants through mediating discourses (Gioia et al, 2000).…”

Section: The Politics Of Nuclear-organizational History and Heritagementioning

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Containing the nuclear past

Taylor

Freer²

2002

Journal of Organizational Change Management

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This paper examines the production of a particular nuclear‐organizational history to illuminate the rhetorical and political practices by which stakeholders engage that history as an opportunity to perform preferred ideological narratives. Analysis utilizes data collected from the authors’ reflective participation in this process, and focuses on the tension between nuclear‐historical and ‐heritage discourses. We use the lens of critical public nuclear history studies to show how nuclear‐organizational history contributes to broader controversy over the commemoration of nuclear weapons production in post‐Cold War US culture.

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Deflecting national ideologies: Exploring identity management trajectories of medium-sized cities

Hassen

Giovanardi

2021

Environ Plan A

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This paper focuses on the agency exhibited by municipal governments in modifying or resisting neoliberal policies, by investigating their efforts to manufacture favorable competitive urban identities. In particular, this paper emphasizes how national ideologies are (re)articulated at a local level by medium-sized cities placed within different national contexts and, thus, exposed to different orientations toward neoliberal principles. By performing historical urban research in Leicester (UK) and Reims (France), this study identifies different expressions of local agency through which cities present their identities on a global scenario, by responding to similar pressure of deindustrialization and urban competition from mid-1970s. If the discursive strategies of both cities reproduce signs of respective national ideologies, findings highlight two trajectories whereby cities negotiate and rework the main narratives underpinning those national ideologies. The concepts of active and passive deflection are offered in order to capture the role of local agency and conceptualize how national ideologies are appropriated locally by medium-sized cities in the attempt to engage with perceived increasing world-level forces.

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Organizing the past: A history and its (de)construction

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Kanter Revisited: Gender, Power and (In)Visibility

Kanter Revisited: Gender, Power and (In)Visibility

Containing the nuclear past

Deflecting national ideologies: Exploring identity management trajectories of medium-sized cities

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