This paper problematises the ways women’s leadership has been understood in relation to male leadership rather than on its own terms. Focusing specifically on ethical leadership, we challenge and politicise the symbolic status of women in leadership by considering the practice of New Zealand...

Purpose – To consider Simone De Beauvoir's account of woman as Other, and particularly the appropriation of sexual difference, with reference to the gendered bifurcation and hierarchical organization of change management. Design/methodology/approach – Through a review of relevant managerial...

Purpose – To underline that viewing entrepreneurship in the context of shifting career roles and professional identities, gendered organizational life and in the current societal context regarding working life (ageing, gender discrimination) provides us with new lenses and enables us to...

Purpose – To challenge dualistic concepts of masculinity and femininity via a case for understanding gender as a verb. Design/methodology/approach – Using Deleuzian and feminist frameworks, the paper appraises six plateaus of desire and intensity through which gendered identities are...

This e-book brings together contributors with an interest in gendering change management. This collection of papers analyses the position of women involved in change but also how understanding of "the feminine" feeds into and is being changed by contemporary organizational experiences