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Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, C., Pollet, T. V., & Callahan, J. L. (2023). Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000604

Studies have found that audiences are often presented with characters that conform with traditional gender roles but there to date has been no empirical investigation into these characters from the actors’ perspective. We investigated the extent to w... Read More about Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.

Trojan Horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative (2023)
Journal Article
Keshtiban, A., Gatto, M., & Callahan, J. L. (2023). Trojan Horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative. Management Learning, https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076231162633

In this paper, we describe a mechanism for subverting the institutional-level neo-liberal hidden curricula of responsibility learning in universities by using a positive hidden curriculum based in extra-curricular activities partnering staff and stud... Read More about Trojan Horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative.

Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, C., Callahan, J. L., Pollet, T. V., & Elliot, C. (online). Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy. Human Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267221137996

How do women navigate and make space for themselves in workspaces where they are not perceived to fit? Women in male-dominated careers often face perceptions of role misfit, leading them to engage in impression management. Using a mixed-methods desig... Read More about Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy.

Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “leadership” (2021)
Journal Article
Keshtiban, A., Callahan, J., & Harris, M. (online). Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “leadership”. Human Resource Development Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21460

The emergence of the Occupy movements along with other social movements in 2011 elevated the idea of radically decentralized “leaderless” social movement organizations. We argue that looking at such an alternative, horizontalist form of organizing pr... Read More about Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “leadership”.

Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations (2021)
Journal Article
Grenier, R., Callahan, J., Kaeppel, K., & Elliott, C. (2022). Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations. Management Learning, 53(3), 483-501. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211029823

Book clubs are a well-known form of social engagement and are beneficial for those who take part, yet book clubs are not fully realized within management as a site for learning. This is unfortunate because book clubs that read fiction can foster soci... Read More about Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations.

Micro-activism and wellbeing in organisational life: 1,000s of snowflakes and the potential avalanche (2021)
Book Chapter
Collective, T. K. (2021). Micro-activism and wellbeing in organisational life: 1,000s of snowflakes and the potential avalanche. In T. Wall, C. Cooper, & P. Brough (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organisational Wellbeing (542-556). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529757187.n35

Activism, or acts of protest and challenge against wider power structures and injustices, has been emerging (or resurging) as a common and high-profile phenomenon in and around organisations over the last two decades. Over this time, evidence has hig... Read More about Micro-activism and wellbeing in organisational life: 1,000s of snowflakes and the potential avalanche.

Supporting teachers who witness bullying: (Re)shaping perceptions through peer coaching in action learning (2019)
Journal Article
Ghosh, R., Callahan, J., & Hammrich, P. (2020). Supporting teachers who witness bullying: (Re)shaping perceptions through peer coaching in action learning. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 9(1), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-02-2019-0017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how peer coaching in action learning meetings stimulates teachers to experience transformational learning through critically reflecting on the perceptions that shape their beliefs about student bullyin... Read More about Supporting teachers who witness bullying: (Re)shaping perceptions through peer coaching in action learning.

Fantasy spaces and emotional derailment: Reflections on failure in academic activism. (2019)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Elliott, C. (2020). Fantasy spaces and emotional derailment: Reflections on failure in academic activism. Organization, 27(3), 506-514

Against a backdrop of contentious political landscapes of Brexit and the Trump victory, we reflect on our own experience of an attempt to engage in an activist event for academics that failed. We contend that our experiences of failure in this event,... Read More about Fantasy spaces and emotional derailment: Reflections on failure in academic activism..

A Critical Plot Twist: Changing Characters and Foreshadowing the Future of Organizational Storytelling (2019)
Journal Article
Beigi, M., Callahan, J., & Michaelson, C. (2019). A Critical Plot Twist: Changing Characters and Foreshadowing the Future of Organizational Storytelling. International Journal of Management Reviews, 21(4), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12203

This review explores the evolution of scholarly research about organizational storytelling over the past 40 years in a sample of 165 papers published between 1975 and 2015. The authors contend that organizational storytelling has established a conven... Read More about A Critical Plot Twist: Changing Characters and Foreshadowing the Future of Organizational Storytelling.

Assessing positive supervisor behaviour: Development and psychometric evaluation of a brief scale. (2019)
Journal Article
Mharapara, T., Hutchison, A., Thomas, H., & Callahan, J. (2019). Assessing positive supervisor behaviour: Development and psychometric evaluation of a brief scale. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30(2), 197-218

Followers are thought to be keenly attuned to supervisor behaviors because these can affect their learning, well-being, and performance at work. However, a practical and empirically tested measure of constructive supervisor behaviors that are valued... Read More about Assessing positive supervisor behaviour: Development and psychometric evaluation of a brief scale..

The retrospective (im)moralization of self-plagiarism: Power interests in the social construction of new norms for publishing (2017)
Journal Article
Callahan, J. (2018). The retrospective (im)moralization of self-plagiarism: Power interests in the social construction of new norms for publishing. Organization, 25(3), 305-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508417734926

The ‘scourge of self-plagiarism’ has begun to find a place in the discourse of organization and management scholarship. Whether a real issue of concern or a moral panic, self-plagiarism has captured the attention of authors, editors, publishers, and... Read More about The retrospective (im)moralization of self-plagiarism: Power interests in the social construction of new norms for publishing.

Learning to lead: Foundations of emerging leader identity development. (2016)
Journal Article
Yeager, K., & Callahan, J. (2016). Learning to lead: Foundations of emerging leader identity development. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422316645510

The Problem
Organizations face several challenges that stand poised to place a significant strain on the availability of qualified leaders. Flatter organization structures, the use of more teams, and impending retirements of the Baby Boomer generati... Read More about Learning to lead: Foundations of emerging leader identity development..

A place at the window: Theorizing organizational change for advocacy of the marginalized. (2015)
Journal Article
Jacobson, S., Callahan, J., & Ghosh, R. (2015). A place at the window: Theorizing organizational change for advocacy of the marginalized. Human Resource Development Review, 14(4), 462-485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484315608555

Using Giddens’s Structuration Theory as a lens, this article theorizes an organizational change perspective that emphasizes the role of the marginalized. The context for this work is the current changes within the Roman Catholic Church, with respect... Read More about A place at the window: Theorizing organizational change for advocacy of the marginalized..

An intersectional social capital model of career development for international marriage migrants. (2015)
Journal Article
Kang, H., Callahan, J., & Anne, M. (2015). An intersectional social capital model of career development for international marriage migrants. The Career Development Quarterly, 63(3), 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12016

The phenomenon of women immigrating to marry has resulted in changing labor markets and increasing workforce diversity. However, because of a lack of social capital in their new country, immigrant women face significant barriers to gaining employment... Read More about An intersectional social capital model of career development for international marriage migrants..