Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue which presents cutting-edge research in the field of gender, management, and leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The special issue arose following the success of a stream on gender, management and leadership held at...

Purpose – This article aims to explore how mainstream popular cinema, usually a vehicle of effortless and accessible entertainment, produces or reproduces prevailing discursive constructs about managers, management and corporate firms and provides a cultural reading of organizations. Using a...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a quantitative picture of the extent to which Irish universities are male-dominated at senior management, professoriate and governance levels; to locate this pattern in an international context; and, drawing on qualitative data from a purposive sample of...