Institutional logics analysis in higher education research
Autor/in:
Cai, Yuzhuo; Mountford, Nicola
Quelle: Studies in Higher Education, 47 (2022) 8, S 1627–1651
Inhalt: While institutional logics theory has increasingly been applied in higher education research, especially in the past five years, agreement is lacking on how to approach institutional logics analysis. This results in proliferating institutional logics in higher education studies and often confuses newcomers to the field as to how to use institutional logics in their empirical research. As a response to this situation, our study outlines the state-of-the-art application of institutional logics in higher education studies through scrutinising 59 articles that apply institutional logics in organisation studies in the field of higher education. Specifically, we ask the following research questions: What approaches to institutional logics analysis are used in higher education studies? What institutional logics are identified/applied in higher education studies? What challenges are evident in applying institutional logics in higher education studies? How does the use of institutional logics in higher education research contribute to institutional logics theory? The most profound outcomes of our literature analysis are: First, we construct a novel typology of approaches to institutional logics analysis that is positioned on two-dimensions: the reasoning applied (deductive vs. inductive), and the level at which the logic is examined (societal vs. field/local); Second, we create an exhaustive list of institutional logics (over 50) applied and identified in these studies; Third, we discover major challenges in using institutional logics in higher education research. Finally, we clearly define societal-level and field-level logics and suggest a rationalisation of institutional logics approaches in order to fully utilise the explanatory power of institutional logics.
Schlagwörter:Institution; institutional theory; literature review; logic; Organisationsanalyse; Organisationsforschung; organization theory; university
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Netzwerke und Organisationen
What is intersectional equality? A definition and goal of equality for organizations
Autor/in:
Woods, Dorian R.; Benschop, Yvonne; van den Brink, Marieke
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), 29 (2022) 1, S 92–109
Inhalt: Organizational research has come a long way in understanding and dealing with inequalities in the workplace. Despite this, there has not been enough progress toward equality. The reason for the stymied progress, we argue, is in large part due to the conceptual gaps in our understanding of equality. This has not been clear enough to prevent previous imbalances in power, interests and domination from re-manifesting themselves in new ways. Because organizations are complex, there needs to be a clear definition and goal of equality that can account for these mechanisms. In this article, we present a conceptual approach we call intersectional equality. To develop this approach, we build on Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectionality and Joan Acker's inequality regimes that are useful for understanding the presence and persistency of inequality in organizations, but these do not define solutions for equality. At this point, we turn to equality and justice theory and examine Amartya Sen's capabilities approach for incorporating organizations and organizational responsibilities to pursue equality. In light of the conceptual gaps in intersectionality, the inequality regimes, and the capabilities approach, we present intersectional equality as a conclusive alternative concept and approach. Intersectional equality sharpens the feminist definition and vision of equality for organizations and provides a practical path forward for building coalitions and capabilities across four dimensions of organizational disparities (procedural, discursive, material, and affective).
Schlagwörter:equality work; feminist approach; intersectionality; Organisation; power
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Netzwerke und Organisationen
Gender-Monitoring 2021 : Frauenanteil in den Programmen der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Autor/in:
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Quelle: Bonn, 2021.
Schlagwörter:Forschungsförderung; grant application; international academic mobility; internationale akademische Mobilität; Mobilität; Monitoring; Wissenschaftler*in
CEWS Kategorie:Statistik und statistische Daten, Netzwerke und Organisationen, Geschlechterverhältnis
The communities of practice playbook :a playbook to collectively run and develop communities of practice
Autor/in:
European Commission. Joint Research Centre.
Quelle: Publications Office, 2021.
Inhalt: The playbook consists of guidance, good practices and interactive visual boards. Community managers with sponsors, core groups and members can work
together on these boards by following the step-by-step guidance and questions posed in this playbook. It covers eight success facets that allow you to develop,
engage and empower your community at every stage of its journey.
The playbook provides you with the tools and processes to create your community roadmap. These tools and processes are based on in-depth and interactive
explorations of eight community success facets:
1. vision – what is your community raison d’être, what are the goals it aspires to achieve and what are the corresponding SMART objectives?
2. governance – how do you work together, and with whom and how do you take decisions?
3. leadership – how will you ensure strong leadership participation by both sponsors and core groups?
4. convening–what kind of convening opportunities work for your community?
5. collaboration and cooperation–how do you co-create and coordinate different cooperation and collaboration processes to deliver concrete community knowledge assets/artefacts?
6. community management–how do you facilitate dynamic, hybrid and (a) synchronous community interactions?
7. user experience–how do you ensure a member-centric community experience while delivering on the tasks set and supporting members’ needs?
8. measurement–how do you understand and measure community vitality and what can you learn from it?
From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Inhalt: Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept
being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE
program—which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation—has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into
practice? What makes some concepts more tractable than others? What happens to theories through this translation process? We explore these questions using the ADVANCE
program as a case study. Using an inductive, theory-building approach and combination
of computational and qualitative methods, we investigate how the concept of implicit bias
was translated into practice through the ADVANCE program and identify five key features
that made implicit bias useful as a change framework in the academic STEM setting. We
find that the concept of implicit bias works programmatically because it is (1) demonstrable, (2) relatable, (3) versatile, (4) actionable, and (5) impartial. While enabling the
Inhalt: Feminist organization theories develop knowledge about how organizations and processes of organizing shape and are shaped by gender, in intersection with race, class and other forms of social inequality. The politics of knowledge within management and organization studies tend to marginalize and silence feminist theorizing on organizations, and so the field misses out on the interdisciplinary, sophisticated conceptualizations and reflexive modes of situated knowledge production provided by feminist work. To highlight the contributions of feminist organization theories, I discuss the feminist answers to three of the grand challenges that contemporary organizations face: inequality, technology and climate change. These answers entail a systematic critique of dominant capitalist and patriarchal forms of organizing that perpetuate complex intersectional inequalities. Importantly, feminist theorizing goes beyond mere critique, offering alternative value systems and unorthodox approaches to organizational change, and providing the radically different ways of knowing that are necessary to tackle the grand challenges. The paper develops an aspirational ideal by sketching the contours of how we can organize for intersectional equality, develop emancipatory technologies and enact a feminist ethics of care for the human and the natural world.
Schlagwörter:climate change; Emanzipation; ethics of care; feminist; feminist critique; inequality; intersectionality; organizational theory
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Netzwerke und Organisationen
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Antifeminismen : ›Krisen‹-Diskurse mit gesellschaftsspaltendem Potential?
Herausgeber/in:
Henninger, Annette; Birsl, Ursula
Quelle: Bielefeld: transcript, 2020. 434 S
Inhalt: ›Krisen‹-Diskurse mit gesellschaftsspaltendem Potential? Hinter dem aktuellen Antifeminismus steht eine kleine, aber intensiv vernetzte Gruppe von Akteur*innen, die strategisch um Deutungshoheit kämpft. Ihr Einfluss jenseits des rechten und christlich-fundamentalistischen Spektrums ist jedoch gering – und Gegenmobilisierungen durchaus erfolgreich. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes legen erstmals vergleichende Analysen zum Antifeminismus in Deutschland vor. Untersucht werden dabei Mediendiskurse, Antifeminismus in der Wissenschaft, Mobilisierungen gegen die Reform sexueller Bildung an Schulen, rechte Kritiken an der »Ehe für alle«, Vorstellungen von Mutterschaft sowie Effekte der Projektion von Sexismus auf zugewanderte Muslime in Integrationskursen für Geflüchtete.
CEWS Kategorie:Netzwerke und Organisationen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Disciplined discourses: The logic of appropriateness in discourses on organizational gender equality policies
Autor/in:
Amstutz, Nathalie; Nussbaumer, Melanie; Vöhringer, Hanna
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2020)
Inhalt: Organizational gender equality policies must address critical issues in organizations, as well as challenge hierarchies and the unequal distribution of power and resources. At the same time, they are reliant on acceptance by organizations when developing an official course of action. On the basis of a neo‐institutional perspective, this study investigates how gender equality discourses are disciplined so that they fit organizational expectations by maintaining the rationality myth of the organization. The empirical analysis of four Swiss organizations demonstrates that, although they intend to reduce gender inequalities, their gender equality policies are shaped by a logic of appropriateness that leads to a continuous reproduction of heteronormativity within gender equality policies. This study thus contributes to the understanding of how the logic of appropriateness protects the heteronormative matrix in organizations by disciplining gender equality discourses.
Cameroon professional women in sciences : A trans-disciplinary review, series 1
Herausgeber/in:
Fogwe Chibaka, Evelyn; Atanga, Lilian Lem; Samba, Elmelda Ngufor; Leke, Rose Gana Fomban; Chumbow, Beban Sammy
Quelle: Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (Topics in interdisciplinary African studies, 53), 2020. 326 S
Inhalt: In order to avoid continuous seasoned scientist/professional female gender polarization and marginalization in our society, Cameroon Professional Research Oriented Women Network (CaPROWN) took up the initiative – under the sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) – to propagate a trans-disciplinary research review approach to seek collaboration outside the bounds of female scientific professional experiences to make new discoveries, explore different perspectives, express and exchange ideas, and gain new insights into gender through peer-reviewed volumes like this. Thus, this book is not solely about gender-related research topics, but rather on works of mostly female researchers that have gone through reviewed lenses of experts of different science disciplines.
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Europa und Internationales, Mentoring und Training, Netzwerke und Organisationen
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Limitations of Social Media Feminism : No Space of Our Own
Autor/in:
Megarry, Jessica
Quelle: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Inhalt: #MeToo. Digital networking. Facebook groups. Social media continues to be positioned by social movement scholars as an exciting new tool that has propelled feminism into a dynamic fourth wave of the movement. But how does male power play out on social media, and what is the political significance of women using male-controlled and algorithmically curated platforms for feminism?
To answer these questions, Megarry foregrounds an analysis of the practices and ethics of the historical Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), including the revolutionary characteristics of face-to-face organising and the development of an autonomous print culture. Centering discussions of time, space and surveillance, she utilises radical and lesbian feminist theory to expose the contradictions between the political project of women’s liberation and the dominant celebratory narratives of Web 2.0. This is the first book to seriously consider how social media perpetuates the enduring logic of patriarchy and howdigital activism shapes women’s oppression in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with intergenerational feminist activists from the UK, the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well as archival and digital activist materials, Megarry boldly concludes that feminists should abandon social media and return to the transformative powers of older forms of women-centred political praxis. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Women’s and Gender Studies, Lesbian and Queer Studies, Social Movement Studies, Critical Internet Studies and Political Communication, as well as anyone with an interest in feminist activism and the history of the WLM.
Schlagwörter:#MeToo; feminism; fourth wave; Netzaktivismus; Social Media; social movement; Women’s Liberation Movement
CEWS Kategorie:Netzwerke und Organisationen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung