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“Dragged in the Opposite Direction”: Identity Tensions Facing Women Academics in Management and Organisation (2025)
Book Chapter
Black, K., Ciesielska, M., & Whitton, D. (2025). “Dragged in the Opposite Direction”: Identity Tensions Facing Women Academics in Management and Organisation. In S. Cinque, & D. Ericsson (Eds.), Debating ‘Homo Academicus’ in Management and Organization: Ontological Assumptions and Practical Implications. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58195-3

Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring (2025)
Journal Article
Marsh, D., Eccleston, H., & Śliwa, M. (online). Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring. Human Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241310136

At the heart of the processual term ‘entrepreneuring’, lies something inherently optimistic: a belief that a better world could be reached beyond the actual. Embracing this perspective, we move away from a focus on entrepreneurial mastery and seek co... Read More about Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring.

Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain (2025)
Journal Article
Spellman, C., & McBride, J. (online). Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain. Gender, Work & Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13237

This paper presents the lived experience of white working‐class women in the UK experiencing in‐work poverty and dependent on food banks to survive. Although the precarious labor market emerges as a significant driver in the women's need for food cha... Read More about Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain.

In Brexit’s Wake – the Birth of the Left Behind (2025)
Journal Article
Barratt, E., & Śliwa, M. (online). In Brexit’s Wake – the Birth of the Left Behind. Organization, https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241306677

This paper addresses the problematisation of the “left behind” in right wing populist governmental strategies in the aftermath of Brexit. As diverse political actors, journalists and commentators questioned and sought to account for the outcome of th... Read More about In Brexit’s Wake – the Birth of the Left Behind.

Tracing the potential benefits and complex contingencies of multilevel collective bargaining (2024)
Journal Article
Grimshaw, D., Brandl, B., Bertranou, F., & Gontero, S. (2024). Tracing the potential benefits and complex contingencies of multilevel collective bargaining. International Labour Review, 163(4), 657-675. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12444

This article provides a critical review of the international evidence for economic benefits of multi-level collective bargaining. The expected gains are highly contingent and depend upon a raft of interlocking enabling conditions. This means that as... Read More about Tracing the potential benefits and complex contingencies of multilevel collective bargaining.

How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal (2024)
Journal Article
Aguzzoli, R., Śliwa, M., Lengler, J., Brewster, C., & Quatrin, D. (online). How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal. Journal of International Business Studies, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00754-y

The literature on expatriation typically assumes that cultural and institutional familiarity facilitates expatriate adjustment. This assumption underplays the role of the historical context, especially the influence of painful colonial pasts that oft... Read More about How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Important Datasets in the Field of Comparative Employment Relations (2024)
Book Chapter
Brandl, B. (2024). The Advantages and Disadvantages of Important Datasets in the Field of Comparative Employment Relations. In J. Parker, N. Donnelly, S. Ressia, & M. Gavin (Eds.), Field Guide to Researching Employment and Industrial Relations (161-174). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035313891

The availability of data with which to perform statistical analyses has always been the Achilles’ heel of empirical research in the field of comparative employment relations (ER). While data availability is challenging for almost all country comparat... Read More about The Advantages and Disadvantages of Important Datasets in the Field of Comparative Employment Relations.

Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance (2024)
Journal Article
Gilmore, S., Harding, N., & Ford, J. (online). Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance. Human Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241279216

This paper marks the 50 th anniversary of the passing of the UK's Sex Discrimination Act (1975). The UK offers an important historical case study of how such laws are, or are not, translated into practice. The success of the Act is mixed: there has b... Read More about Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance.

The Business of (Im)Migration: Bodies Across Borders (2024)
Journal Article
Distinto, M., Doshi, V., Osorio, A. E., Segarra, P., & Śliwa, M. (2024). The Business of (Im)Migration: Bodies Across Borders. Journal of Business Ethics, 194, 747–752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05777-x

Irrespective of length of stay or voluntariness, (im)migration is the movement of individuals across borders. From national identity to labor markets, (im)migration affects various dimensions and spheres of social life. Currently, 3.6% of the global... Read More about The Business of (Im)Migration: Bodies Across Borders.

The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics (2024)
Journal Article
Prasad, A., & Śliwa, M. (2024). The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics. Management Learning, 55(4), 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076241269734

Plagiarism accusations have become increasingly politicized over the last few years. In this article, we raise some of our concerns with how vacuous plagiarism accusations are now part of the arsenal of anti-woke politics. Revisiting the recent cas... Read More about The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics.

Strategy texts as auto-communication: How narrative, language, and visual symbolism exercise discursive control (2024)
Journal Article
Reissner, S., & Falkheimer, J. (online). Strategy texts as auto-communication: How narrative, language, and visual symbolism exercise discursive control. International Journal of Strategic Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2024.2388087

Strategy texts are an important way of communicating a strategy to a range of different stakeholders, including internal audiences as the organization communicates with itself (auto-communication). In this article, we analyze two related strategy tex... Read More about Strategy texts as auto-communication: How narrative, language, and visual symbolism exercise discursive control.

Prospective market shaping: a discursive analysis of possible future autonomous vehicle markets (2024)
Journal Article
Purchase, S., Schepis, D., & Ellis, N. (2024). Prospective market shaping: a discursive analysis of possible future autonomous vehicle markets. Industrial Marketing Management, 122, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2024.08.003

Investigating innovation ecosystems during their early stages of development is critical when considering how these nascent activities shape future technological direction and markets. This paper prospectively investigates how actors in these ecosyst... Read More about Prospective market shaping: a discursive analysis of possible future autonomous vehicle markets.

Making Knowledge Claims from Qualitative Interviews: A Typology of Epistemological Modes (2024)
Journal Article
Whittle, A., & Reissner, S. (2024). Making Knowledge Claims from Qualitative Interviews: A Typology of Epistemological Modes. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12845

Qualitative interviewing is the most common qualitative research method in management studies. However, researchers using this method tend to use a distinct ‘packages’ of practices, each of which is underpinned by a distinct onto‐epistemological para... Read More about Making Knowledge Claims from Qualitative Interviews: A Typology of Epistemological Modes.