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Dear Colleagues and Friend,s
EOI 2009 Conference, 15-17 July 2009, ISTANBUL, Turkey
“Gender, Management and Leadership”
www.eoi-conference.org
EOI 2009 Conference will take place at Bosphorus University (Istanbul), one of the foremost academic institutions in Turkey:
http://www.boun.edu.tr/resimler/guney_kampus_1.html
Stream Call for Papers: Gender, Management and Leadership
Track Chairs:
Olivia Kyriakidou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Business Administration
Email:
okyriakidou@aueb.gr
Stream Outline
In today's dynamic environment, organizations must capitalize fully on the strengths of all organizational members, particularly those in higher-level management and leadership roles; yet, all organizational members do not have the same opportunities to contribute as leaders, since women continue to face obstacles in terms of being recognized and accepted as legitimate leaders. If women are not accepted as legitimate leaders, then their effectiveness across all types of leadership, both formal and informal, will be constrained, making gender bias a practical and significant problem for organizations. This stream therefore, explores the gendered nature of leadership and management, in order to better understand the emergence and acceptance of female leaders in work organizations. It adopts a critical analysis of the way work is organised, which has profound implications for the nature of managerial work and the positions of power and influence.
This stream invites theoretically informed papers as well as empirically based ones from a range of disciplines that explore the gendered nature of leadership at the intraindividual level of analysis (i.e. self view and skills), the inter-individual level of analysis (i.e. cognitive and affective processes) and the organizational level of analysis (i.e. culture, network of multilevel relationships). Moreover, papers could explore the effect of processes of globalisation on established gender relations in different national and local organisational contexts.
Possible themes include:
The gender structuring of management and organisations; leadership issues; gendered discourses of management and leadership; gender and managerial identity; issues in managerial career development and career trajectories of women in organizations; the role of gender in the way managers conduct themselves; alternative forms of working at managerial levels; the phenomenon of “glass escalator”; gender mainstreaming, and the presence, absence and development of policies on gender; bias and the content of gender-role stereotypes in leadership across the world: international comparisons; the effect of globalisation on established gender relations and the possible deterioration of gender inequality; international organizations, gender and management.
EOI Conference welcomes three forms of paper submissions to regular streams:
• Extended abstract: Customarily an extended abstract should be approximately 300 words including references. This is suitable for policy, intervention or research in its early stages of development.
• Developmental papers: These should be approximately 3000-5000 words, including references.
• Full papers: These are longer contributions less than 40 sides of A4 including references.
Abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically - the manuscript submission site is now open and will close on 15 May, 2009. Final session lists for each stream are due on 15 June 2009. Please use the abstract/paper submission form for submitting your abstract/manuscript.
Important dates
Abstract or full paper submission: 15 May 2009
Response to authors: 15 June 2009
Full conference schedule will be available 1 July 2009
Yours Sincerely,
Dr Olivia Kyriakidou
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour
Department of Business Administration
Athens University of Economics and Business
Patision 80, 10343 Athens, Greece.
Tel: +30 2108203
Email:
okyriakidou@aueb.gr