Adelina Broadbridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 340383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adelina Broadbridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adelina |
| FAMILY NAME | Broadbridge |
| SIGNATURE | BROADBRIDGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8142-1568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 23 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Generation Ys' employment expectations
Generation Y can be taken to be the group of people born between 1977 and 2000. The aim of this paper is to investigate the initial career entry and long-term career employment expectations of UK undergraduate Generation Ys, in order to inform employability skills development in higher education. The empirical research comprises 26 focus groups with 172 undergraduates of this generation in 2 universities in the UK. The focus group participants ar…
Years On
This paper celebrates the progress that has been made in gender and management research over the last 25 years and outlines some current challenges faced. The British Journal of Management has disseminated many of the key debates, from empirical and theoretical work, that have helped to both frame and reflect developments in the field – and this paper charts some of this diverse terrain. Challenges include current conceptualizations that gender i…
Choice or constraint? Tensions in female retail executives' career narratives
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of Hakim's preference theory in the understanding of the attitudes of women retail senior managers and directors towards their career and non‐work lives. It provides a critical analysis of the main tenets of preference theory and evaluates the extent to which women have “free choice” in their careers. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology consisting of 13 in‐depth inte…
Years of retailing; 25 years of change? Reflecting on the position of women managers
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the gender composition of retail management and various issues in the careers of women managers during the last 25 years, a time period that has been transformational in many ways for UK retailing. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on empirical research from the last 25 years. Findings Findings indicate that progress of women in retail management positions has been slow and they are …
Social capital, gender and careers
Purpose - The article aims to show how using the framework of social capital can be useful in understanding the careers of senior retail managers. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative research design in the form of 17 biographical interviews with 11 men and six women was adopted to understand the perceived influence and active involvement of social capital factors in retail career development at senior levels. Findings - Men and women were…
Gender and Management
Management and managing are characteristically gendered in many respects. Over the last 30 years there has been a major international growth of studies on gender relations in organizations in general and in management in particular. This applies in both empirical research and more general theoretical analyses. The area of gender, organizations and management is now recognized in at least some quarters outside of itself as a legitimate, even an im…
Mentoring and women managers
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of some salient research relating to mentoring for women managers. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws mainly upon writing and research from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia to explore some of the issues that continue to be pertinent for the mentoring of women managers. Findings The paper explores some of the early arguments promoting mentoring for women in the light of more re…
Senior careers in retailing
Purpose Retailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female‐dominated customer base. It also employs proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of women to men diminishes. This paper aims to examine the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers' career development in order to see if it offers any insights for others to achieve senior…
The only way is up
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons for the apparent “under‐achievement” of mothers working in accountancy, even when at similar levels of qualification to those of fathers. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales membership dataset was carried out, as well as semi‐structured work‐life interviews with ten male and ten female chartered accountants with children. Fi…
The performance of women and men in organisations
Purpose This purpose of this paper is to draw on theatre theory to develop the notion of gender performativity in organisational contexts. It presents an interdisciplinary approach that is fruitful in an era of increasing organisational aestheticisation and persistent aesthetic discrimination. Design/methodology/approach Theatre theory and performance analysis is used to develop aesthetic approaches to gendered organizations. Findings The interpl…
Contemporary views in gender and management
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach - A brief description of the Gender in Management track at the 2007 British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference held at Warwick Business School and an outline of the papers in the issue. Findings - The track examined various issues and the papers chosen from the track for the special issue are closest to the central concerns of the journal…
When counting proved not to wash
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to question our faith in numbers. It asks how much credibility can numbers and quantification of data offer us as researchers? Design/methodology/approach The research asked the question “Does gender matter?” in the case of banks lending to male and female business owners. To test this the bank loan officers were given an identical fictional bank loan proposal from either Jack or Emma Jones. It was assumed tha…
Power and politics in gender research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a research note exploring how feminist methodologies could bring new insights into research on gender in the accounting context. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies some central tenets of feminist research methodology to a brief critique of current research on gender and accounting, in order to overcome some of the power relationships inherent within the research and define a more explicitly…
Barriers to networking for women in a UK professional service
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of personal contact networks in the UK public relations sector, focusing on the barriers to networking identified by practitioners. Design/methodology/approach Empirical research using qualitative methodologies of in‐depth interviews and repertory grids conducted with directors, managers and executives in seven UK public relations agencies. Findings UK public relations practitioners in the s…
Contesting the gendering of methodology
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critique the argument that research methodology is gendered and present a post‐essentialist understanding of research methods. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual paper which engages with the feminist debate over the gendering of methodology. Findings The paper begins by discussing the feminist critique of positivism that quantitative methodologies embody patriarchal assumptions. Then, drawing on conte…
“That's not how I see it”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a piece of empirical work that examines gender differences in how academics make sense of performance within university business schools in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The research reported draws on data collected using a life history and repertory grid methodology with male and female interviewees from two university business schools. Findings The findings are discussed in relation to how a…
Gender and Management
The absence of women's voices in Hofstede's Cultural Consequences
Purpose Embedded in Western scientific rationality, Hofstede's model on national culture is constructed on a quantitative method, which among other things is characterized by its carefully selected sample consisting of a group of well educated white “men” from the middle classes working for the same company and sharing identical or similar occupations. The appointment of well educated men from the middle classes as the norm for national culture m…
Twenty years later
Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide a theoretical explanation for the persistence of the glass ceiling keeping women from assuming leadership positions. Design/methodology/approach – The methodological approach of this paper is to compare and contrast social role theory and expectation states theory as theoretical underpinnings to explain the persistence of a glass ceiling for women leaders. Findings – Both social role th…
British army leadership
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the female British Army officer, to determine whether female Army officers lead in different ways to male Army officers. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual framework was transformational and transactional leadership theory. Data were gathered in semi structured interviews with 24 Army officers, split 50:50 between men and women using repertory grid, and critical incident methods.…
Charity, retail or care? Gender and managerialism in the charity retail sector
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how gender identity is played out in a particular type of work setting, that of charity retail, and to explore the impacts of increased managerialism on this process of identity construction. Design/Methodology/approach - The paper is informed by interviews with 22 charity shop managers from three UK cities. The narratives of three of these managers are chosen for more in-depth analysis. The paper…
Entrepreneurial identity in the care sector
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the business and research context influences how female entrepreneurs construct their identities. Design/methodology/approach Focussing specifically on the care work sector, the analysis of interview transcripts explores how participants struggle to establish a positive identity through reconciling the contradictory subject positions produced at the intersection of entrepreneurialism and caring.…
Women in management
Purpose To introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach A brief description of the Gender and Management track at the European Academy of Management Conference and an outline of the papers in the issue. Findings The track examined various issues and the papers chosen from the track for the special issue are closest to the central concerns of the journal. Originality/value Provides a summary of the perspectives considered
Gendered ageism and “lookism”
Purpose This study set out to explore employees' experience and understandings of gender and age in higher education to identify if women in higher education experienced the double jeopardy of gendered ageism. Further the role of physical attractiveness and appearance in higher education is explored. Design/methodology/approach Rich data were afforded by the qualitative method of in‐depth interviewing of 48 employees in a matched by gender, age g…
Deinfluentization and self‐monitoring as influence regulation tactics of Polish women and men managers
Purpose According to the situational theories of leadership managers should adapt their influence tactics to situational demands but there is still a constant problem with managerial influence because managers using influence (whether “hard” or “soft”) mostly “cling” to it. The paper examines how managers regulate their influences with the help of deinfluentization (DEI) – the ability to consciously withdraw one's influence and self‐monitoring (S…
Gender-related boardroom dynamics
Purpose The objective of this article is to examine and conceptualise gender-related boardroom dynamics that affect how women can make contributions on corporate boards. Design/methodology/approach Stories were collected from eight women directors about their experiences from more than 100 corporate boards. Narrative methods were used in the data analysis. Findings Women as well as men need to understand the power game inside and outside the boar…
Managing Change in Nonprofit Organizations
Moves toward increased professionalism are now an almost taken-for-granted aspect of change across the nonprofit sector both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. This paper uses the case of UK charity retail to explore the impacts of this move to professionalism, on managers at the local level. In doing so it seeks to develop appropriate techniques for managing change both in charity retail and more broadly, in nonprofit organizations …
Managing Two Roles
The main reasons for students combining term-time employment with university life are seen as financial, although additional benefits and costs are associated with 'earning and learning'. Most studies focus on the negative impact of combining these roles, suggesting that students' term-time employment leads to poorer adjustment to university life in terms of academic performance, social inclusion and reduced psychological well-being. Methodologic…
Generation Ys' employment expectations
Generation Y can be taken to be the group of people born between 1977 and 2000. The aim of this paper is to investigate the initial career entry and long-term career employment expectations of UK undergraduate Generation Ys, in order to inform employability skills development in higher education. The empirical research comprises 26 focus groups with 172 undergraduates of this generation in 2 universities in the UK. The focus group participants ar…
Social capital, gender and careers
Purpose - The article aims to show how using the framework of social capital can be useful in understanding the careers of senior retail managers. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative research design in the form of 17 biographical interviews with 11 men and six women was adopted to understand the perceived influence and active involvement of social capital factors in retail career development at senior levels. Findings - Men and women were…
Barriers to networking for women in a UK professional service
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of personal contact networks in the UK public relations sector, focusing on the barriers to networking identified by practitioners. Design/methodology/approach Empirical research using qualitative methodologies of in‐depth interviews and repertory grids conducted with directors, managers and executives in seven UK public relations agencies. Findings UK public relations practitioners in the s…
Earning and learning
Background. Undertaking term-time employment is increasingly commonplace for university students. Much research suggests that combining 'earning and learning' may be detrimental to university life, generating role conflicts, increasing stress and reducing academic success, participation and overall adjustment to university. Potential positive effects of term-time employment on well-being are often neglected.Aims. This study adopted a balanced per…
Power and politics in gender research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a research note exploring how feminist methodologies could bring new insights into research on gender in the accounting context. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies some central tenets of feminist research methodology to a brief critique of current research on gender and accounting, in order to overcome some of the power relationships inherent within the research and define a more explicitly…
The charity shop volunteer in Scotland
Employment patterns in various sectors of retailing have received much research attention in recent years, and investigation into charity volunteering is prolific. There is, however, little academic research to date into employment issues in charity retailing or reference to the volunteers who work in charity shops. This has been a neglected topic, left in the hands of those with particular charity interests rather than an academic topic in its o…
Choice or constraint? Tensions in female retail executives' career narratives
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of Hakim's preference theory in the understanding of the attitudes of women retail senior managers and directors towards their career and non‐work lives. It provides a critical analysis of the main tenets of preference theory and evaluates the extent to which women have “free choice” in their careers. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology consisting of 13 in‐depth inte…
Years of retailing; 25 years of change? Reflecting on the position of women managers
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the gender composition of retail management and various issues in the careers of women managers during the last 25 years, a time period that has been transformational in many ways for UK retailing. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on empirical research from the last 25 years. Findings Findings indicate that progress of women in retail management positions has been slow and they are …
Senior careers in retailing
Purpose Retailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female‐dominated customer base. It also employs proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of women to men diminishes. This paper aims to examine the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers' career development in order to see if it offers any insights for others to achieve senior…
The only way is up
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons for the apparent “under‐achievement” of mothers working in accountancy, even when at similar levels of qualification to those of fathers. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales membership dataset was carried out, as well as semi‐structured work‐life interviews with ten male and ten female chartered accountants with children. Fi…
Contemporary views in gender and management
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach - A brief description of the Gender in Management track at the 2007 British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference held at Warwick Business School and an outline of the papers in the issue. Findings - The track examined various issues and the papers chosen from the track for the special issue are closest to the central concerns of the journal…
The charity shop volunteer in Scotland
Employment patterns in various sectors of retailing have received much research attention in recent years, and investigation into charity volunteering is prolific. There is, however, little academic research to date into employment issues in charity retailing or reference to the volunteers who work in charity shops. This has been a neglected topic, left in the hands of those with particular charity interests rather than an academic topic in its o…
Female and Male Earnings Differentials in Retailing
Female sales assistants and checkout operators in the retail sector earned 79.7 per cent of the male sales assistants and checkout operators' gross weekly wage in 1992. This article examines some of the reasons put forward by Robinson and Wallace in the 1970s for pay differences between men and women in retailing. By using data from the New Earnings Survey this paper compares pay differentials in retailing in 1992 by kind of retail business and e…
Stress and the female retail manager
Examines the sources of stress associated with male and female retail managers, a sector recognised as being stressful and where women are more likely than in other occupational sectors to be managers. Self‐completed questionnaires were distributed to males and females at various levels of retail management. The findings confirmed the two research hypotheses: male and female managers reported similar job pressures, in particular from “work overlo…
Managing Change in Nonprofit Organizations
Moves toward increased professionalism are now an almost taken-for-granted aspect of change across the nonprofit sector both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. This paper uses the case of UK charity retail to explore the impacts of this move to professionalism, on managers at the local level. In doing so it seeks to develop appropriate techniques for managing change both in charity retail and more broadly, in nonprofit organizations …
Women in management
Purpose To introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach A brief description of the Gender and Management track at the European Academy of Management Conference and an outline of the papers in the issue. Findings The track examined various issues and the papers chosen from the track for the special issue are closest to the central concerns of the journal. Originality/value Provides a summary of the perspectives considered
Gendered ageism and “lookism”
Purpose This study set out to explore employees' experience and understandings of gender and age in higher education to identify if women in higher education experienced the double jeopardy of gendered ageism. Further the role of physical attractiveness and appearance in higher education is explored. Design/methodology/approach Rich data were afforded by the qualitative method of in‐depth interviewing of 48 employees in a matched by gender, age g…
Deinfluentization and self‐monitoring as influence regulation tactics of Polish women and men managers
Purpose According to the situational theories of leadership managers should adapt their influence tactics to situational demands but there is still a constant problem with managerial influence because managers using influence (whether “hard” or “soft”) mostly “cling” to it. The paper examines how managers regulate their influences with the help of deinfluentization (DEI) – the ability to consciously withdraw one's influence and self‐monitoring (S…
The social stereotypes of the Portuguese female and male manager
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the social stereotypes of the male and the female manager and their implications for the persistent inequalities between men and women in the management context. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted using a sample of undergraduate management students who were asked to fill in a questionnaire containing a comprehensive list of descriptors of male and female managers. Findings The socia…
Do multi‐source feedback instruments support the existence of a glass ceiling for women leaders
Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine if observed ratings on a multi‐source feedback (MSF) instrument reflect the same cognitive constructs of leadership across multiple rating pairs based on rater and ratee gender. Design/methodology/approach The independent variables of this quantitative research study are MSF rater and ratee gender. The dependent variables are leadership constructs reflected by MSF ratings. During phase I of the da…
Women in formal corporate networks
Purpose To investigate women's corporate networks, and the reported benefits for the women and their employers. To gain insight into the motivation for these voluntary activities, by drawing on organisational citizenship theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the issue using in‐depth interviews with chairs and organisers of 12 women's networks, and triangulated the data with an email survey resulting in 164 responses from network …
Female Enterprise in the New Economy
Gender, Bodies and Work
Encounters in social cyberspace
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the barriers facing women aiming to progress in their careers, or return to work following a career break, and evaluate the effects of an innovatory e‐mentoring scheme designed to overcome such obstacles and promote career development. Design/methodology/approach An online community of practice was formed for professional women in four UK regions. A survey of the career barriers they experienced was…
Does size matter? Gender‐based equal opportunity in UK small and medium enterprises
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the take up of gender‐based equal opportunities policies and practices in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and explores the relationship between size and take up within the SME sector. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on detailed data generated by a European Social Fund sponsored equality audit tool (breakthrough). This is an interactive, questionnaire‐based programme incorporatin…
Women in management
Gender-related boardroom dynamics
Purpose The objective of this article is to examine and conceptualise gender-related boardroom dynamics that affect how women can make contributions on corporate boards. Design/methodology/approach Stories were collected from eight women directors about their experiences from more than 100 corporate boards. Narrative methods were used in the data analysis. Findings Women as well as men need to understand the power game inside and outside the boar…
Earning and learning
Background. Undertaking term-time employment is increasingly commonplace for university students. Much research suggests that combining 'earning and learning' may be detrimental to university life, generating role conflicts, increasing stress and reducing academic success, participation and overall adjustment to university. Potential positive effects of term-time employment on well-being are often neglected.Aims. This study adopted a balanced per…
Managing Two Roles
The main reasons for students combining term-time employment with university life are seen as financial, although additional benefits and costs are associated with 'earning and learning'. Most studies focus on the negative impact of combining these roles, suggesting that students' term-time employment leads to poorer adjustment to university life in terms of academic performance, social inclusion and reduced psychological well-being. Methodologic…
“That's not how I see it”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a piece of empirical work that examines gender differences in how academics make sense of performance within university business schools in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The research reported draws on data collected using a life history and repertory grid methodology with male and female interviewees from two university business schools. Findings The findings are discussed in relation to how a…
Gender and Management
The absence of women's voices in Hofstede's Cultural Consequences
Purpose Embedded in Western scientific rationality, Hofstede's model on national culture is constructed on a quantitative method, which among other things is characterized by its carefully selected sample consisting of a group of well educated white “men” from the middle classes working for the same company and sharing identical or similar occupations. The appointment of well educated men from the middle classes as the norm for national culture m…
Twenty years later
Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide a theoretical explanation for the persistence of the glass ceiling keeping women from assuming leadership positions. Design/methodology/approach – The methodological approach of this paper is to compare and contrast social role theory and expectation states theory as theoretical underpinnings to explain the persistence of a glass ceiling for women leaders. Findings – Both social role th…
British army leadership
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the female British Army officer, to determine whether female Army officers lead in different ways to male Army officers. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual framework was transformational and transactional leadership theory. Data were gathered in semi structured interviews with 24 Army officers, split 50:50 between men and women using repertory grid, and critical incident methods.…
Charity, retail or care? Gender and managerialism in the charity retail sector
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how gender identity is played out in a particular type of work setting, that of charity retail, and to explore the impacts of increased managerialism on this process of identity construction. Design/Methodology/approach - The paper is informed by interviews with 22 charity shop managers from three UK cities. The narratives of three of these managers are chosen for more in-depth analysis. The paper…
Entrepreneurial identity in the care sector
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the business and research context influences how female entrepreneurs construct their identities. Design/methodology/approach Focussing specifically on the care work sector, the analysis of interview transcripts explores how participants struggle to establish a positive identity through reconciling the contradictory subject positions produced at the intersection of entrepreneurialism and caring.…
Gender Diversity and Inequality (29 works) · Political science (29 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Originality (22 works) · Public relations (19 works) · Business (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Qualitative research (14 works) · Social science (13 works)