ABSTRACT
This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the last two decades: organizational culture, the gendering of organizations, postmodernism and organizational analysis, and critical approaches to management. We view these themes as intertwined in research on the essence of organizational life with its multiple manifestations. In particular the book reflects the growing interest in the impact of organizational identity formation and its implications for ‘individuals’ and ‘organisational’ outcomes in terms of gender. These themes are integrated through a focus on new and varied research designs, methods and methodologies by which the complex interrelationships between gender, identity and the cultures of organizations are submitted to our understanding and can be explored. This book edition with its variety of methodological and conceptual approaches aims:
1 to promote diverse theoretically based, empirical explorations on crossing issues between gender and organizational culture,
2 to apply that understanding in the context of organizations and management, and
3 to support critical reflections within organizational research in terms of equality between women and men at the workplace.
