Overview
- First volume focussing on the role of gender in transnational organizations
- Provides insights relevant for several different fields of research such as business, economics, geography, sociology, and gender and women’s studies
- Helps readers develop and manage transnational business relations
Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge (CROKNOW)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into account in these studies. This book shows how fruitful a gendered take on issues within this area is, both for a deepened understanding of these organizational issues and for a widened understanding of gender issues. The chapters in the book cover a range of themes from a gender perspective; culture, communication, identity work, structures, organizational change, globalization, mobility, resistance, leadership and management, international business, work life balance, education and labour market, policies and value systems. The chapters also demonstrate the multidisciplinarity within gender research itself and how different perspectives on gender can be combined and developed. They onthe social constructionist approach of “doing gender”, feminist organization theory, gendered discourse analysis, techno-feminism, and critical studies on men and masculinities. The book provides insights relevant for some of the relevant debates in business, economics, geography, sociology, and gender and women’s studies. While primarily a research volume, the book is also useful for people who develop and manage transnational business relations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender in Transnational Knowledge Work
Editors: Helen Peterson
Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43307-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43306-6Published: 04 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82785-8Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43307-3Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-9634
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9642
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 140
Topics: Gender and Education, Gender Studies, Professional & Vocational Education