Leanne Cutcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 102588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leanne Cutcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Cutcher |
| SIGNATURE | CUTCHER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4192-6139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Workers that matter and work that counts organizing and accounting for value(s)
Special Issues are spaces of political action with the potential to activate new beginnings. As a group of academics, daily confronted with the lives of individuals who struggle for recognition across the societies in which we live, we came together with the intention of posing both timeless and timely questions to our communities: questions about how the value of work is defined, who is counted, and what kinds of work and workers are allowed to …
Strangers in conversation
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
The Bundian Way
Our paper explores the complex place-based relations of cross-sector partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners. We draw on a longitudinal in-depth case study of the Bundian Way, an Indigenous-led cross-sector partnership of over 40 organisations. Through practices of listening to history and walking ‘on Country’, the non-Indigenous partners and our team came to appreciate the indivisibility of place and time and bear witness to …
Mothering managers
This paper explores motherhood as an organizational subjectivity. Highlighting the experience of older women in a global engineering firm, and my own experience as an academic leader, the paper shows how the maternal body is culturally produced and how discourses of motherhood perpetuate highly gendered notions of who can give and receive care in organizations. This paper argues that the patriarchal construction of women as endlessly maternal, bu…
Emotion, aesthetics and sexuality at work
An Ageless Gift
Much of the extant literature views older workers through the lenses of human capital theory or ageism and age discrimination, both of which emphasise older workers' value deficit. Using the case of a company that employs older workers, this article explores how ongoing exchanges between the organisation, its employees and its customers create three inter-related types of value: surplus value, staging value and accrual value. The organisation ext…
Stopped in our tracks
When the Western Australian government announced in 2010 that Indigenous people would be compensated for unpaid wages, a Yindjibarndi woman named Bigali Hanlon submitted an application to access her government files so that she could lodge a claim. At the age of four, Bigali was taken from her home in Mulga Downs, Western Australia to live in a church‐run hostel for ‘fair‐skinned’ Indigenous children until she was sent into indentured domestic se…
Authentic leadership in context
The concept of authentic leadership rose to prominence through its idealization as an inherently moral and universally desirable trait. We problematize this romantic notion by exploring how the ‘authenticity’ of the CEOs of four major Australian banks was discursively constructed before and during the global financial crisis (GFC). Using multimodal discourse analysis of media texts, we show how what it meant to be an ‘authentic leader’ was co-con…
Doing the brand
This article explores how company requirements to consume and perform the brand impact on the attachment fashion retail employees have to the brand. The research finds that over time some workers' attachment to the brand grew, whereas for others it diminished. To explain these differences, the article develops the idea of aesthetic labour as a 'situated relational performance'. Attachment to the brand was mediated by both the 'situated circuit of…
Spaces and places of remembering and commemoration
Organisations engage in remembering and commemorative practices, often to produce effects of stability and continuity and to create shared meanings and culture, yet commemoration has been a relatively neglected theme in the study of organisations. The articles in this Special Issue range across diverse examples to provide a rich understanding of the dynamic and complex processes involved in the organisation of commemoration. In particular, they i…
Doing Authenticity
Authenticity has been a focus of much leadership research in recent years. Despite this interest, there has been a dearth of studies that explore the role of gender in the social construction of authenticity. To date, authentic leadership theories have tended to be either gender neutral or, where gender has been considered, it is argued that women as ‘outsiders’ are less likely to be accepted by their followers as authentic leaders. In this study…
Work, Age and Other Drugs
This paper explores the work experiences of older male pharmaceutical sales representatives, many of whom are working well past traditional retirement age. In many respects these older sales people are the material signifiers of the company's products because they embody the firm's strategy of selling ‘older’, tried‐and‐tested drugs. Extending their careers well beyond the traditional age at which most Australian men retire enables these sales re…
What’s Age Got to Do With It? On the Critical Analysis of Age and Organizations
Age, as an embodied identity and as an organizing principle, has received scant attention in organization studies. There is a lack of critical appreciation of how age plays out in organizational settings, the material and discursive dynamics of age practices, how age discourses impact on the body, and how age and ageing intersect with other identity categories. This is curious since age works as a master signifier in contemporary society and is s…
Built to last
This article explores the ways in which male traders negotiate ageing in the highly competitive world of finance. It draws on a study of a UK hedge fund to show how ageing processes intersect with masculinity and class-based bodily practices to reproduce market-based ideals of the sector. Through developing the concept of body accumulation, this article provides a new framework for exploring ageing in an organizational context by demonstrating ho…
Finance capitalism's perpetually extinguished pasts
Gendered futures, constrained choices
Misrepresenting Indigenous mothers
Crisis, critique and the construction of normality
‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean
Local heroes
This paper explores the role of consumers as co‐producers of community banks in Australia. Through narrative analysis of the “histories” on the community bank websites, the paper highlights the interconnectedness of consumption and production processes. The paper shows how as co‐managers in the production and delivery of the banking service, the consumers create value for the bank as well as for their local communities. Further, the paper shows h…
Creating Something
This article explores the way in which an Australian regional bank has been able to draw on nostalgia for a `golden era' of banking to expand its branch network. The bank's strategy centres on providing local friendly service delivered by civic-minded small-business people through a franchised community bank model. The article aims to contribute to our understanding of emotions in organizations by highlighting the ways in which nostalgia can be u…
Expectant Mothers and Absent Fathers
In this article we explore how the reluctance to introduce a national paid maternity leave scheme in Australia reflects gendered norms and constructions of parenthood and work. We report on the findings of a study of selected media texts that show how the public discourse that surrounded proposals to introduce such a scheme exhibited deep‐seated resistance to women who combine motherhood with continued attachment to the paid workforce. Using a mu…
Bodies at Work
The Shifting Meaning of Mutuality and Co-Operativeness in the Credit Union Movement from 1959 to 1989
By studying the way that a peak industry association used its newsletter to interpret change in the broader social, political and economic context for their member organisations, we find how these texts sought to unite an increasingly fragmented group of organisations as well as to reinforce the role and identity of the association. We observe the connections between discourse and the organisational identity of the New South Wales (NSW) Credit Un…
Built to last
This article explores the ways in which male traders negotiate ageing in the highly competitive world of finance. It draws on a study of a UK hedge fund to show how ageing processes intersect with masculinity and class-based bodily practices to reproduce market-based ideals of the sector. Through developing the concept of body accumulation, this article provides a new framework for exploring ageing in an organizational context by demonstrating ho…
Doing Authenticity
Authenticity has been a focus of much leadership research in recent years. Despite this interest, there has been a dearth of studies that explore the role of gender in the social construction of authenticity. To date, authentic leadership theories have tended to be either gender neutral or, where gender has been considered, it is argued that women as ‘outsiders’ are less likely to be accepted by their followers as authentic leaders. In this study…
Doing the brand
This article explores how company requirements to consume and perform the brand impact on the attachment fashion retail employees have to the brand. The research finds that over time some workers' attachment to the brand grew, whereas for others it diminished. To explain these differences, the article develops the idea of aesthetic labour as a 'situated relational performance'. Attachment to the brand was mediated by both the 'situated circuit of…
Authentic leadership in context
The concept of authentic leadership rose to prominence through its idealization as an inherently moral and universally desirable trait. We problematize this romantic notion by exploring how the ‘authenticity’ of the CEOs of four major Australian banks was discursively constructed before and during the global financial crisis (GFC). Using multimodal discourse analysis of media texts, we show how what it meant to be an ‘authentic leader’ was co-con…
Expectant Mothers and Absent Fathers
In this article we explore how the reluctance to introduce a national paid maternity leave scheme in Australia reflects gendered norms and constructions of parenthood and work. We report on the findings of a study of selected media texts that show how the public discourse that surrounded proposals to introduce such a scheme exhibited deep‐seated resistance to women who combine motherhood with continued attachment to the paid workforce. Using a mu…
Work, Age and Other Drugs
This paper explores the work experiences of older male pharmaceutical sales representatives, many of whom are working well past traditional retirement age. In many respects these older sales people are the material signifiers of the company's products because they embody the firm's strategy of selling ‘older’, tried‐and‐tested drugs. Extending their careers well beyond the traditional age at which most Australian men retire enables these sales re…
Emotion, aesthetics and sexuality at work
Gendered futures, constrained choices
Mothering managers
This paper explores motherhood as an organizational subjectivity. Highlighting the experience of older women in a global engineering firm, and my own experience as an academic leader, the paper shows how the maternal body is culturally produced and how discourses of motherhood perpetuate highly gendered notions of who can give and receive care in organizations. This paper argues that the patriarchal construction of women as endlessly maternal, bu…
An Ageless Gift
Much of the extant literature views older workers through the lenses of human capital theory or ageism and age discrimination, both of which emphasise older workers' value deficit. Using the case of a company that employs older workers, this article explores how ongoing exchanges between the organisation, its employees and its customers create three inter-related types of value: surplus value, staging value and accrual value. The organisation ext…
Stopped in our tracks
When the Western Australian government announced in 2010 that Indigenous people would be compensated for unpaid wages, a Yindjibarndi woman named Bigali Hanlon submitted an application to access her government files so that she could lodge a claim. At the age of four, Bigali was taken from her home in Mulga Downs, Western Australia to live in a church‐run hostel for ‘fair‐skinned’ Indigenous children until she was sent into indentured domestic se…
Creating Something
This article explores the way in which an Australian regional bank has been able to draw on nostalgia for a `golden era' of banking to expand its branch network. The bank's strategy centres on providing local friendly service delivered by civic-minded small-business people through a franchised community bank model. The article aims to contribute to our understanding of emotions in organizations by highlighting the ways in which nostalgia can be u…
Strangers in conversation
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
Finance capitalism's perpetually extinguished pasts
Local heroes
This paper explores the role of consumers as co‐producers of community banks in Australia. Through narrative analysis of the “histories” on the community bank websites, the paper highlights the interconnectedness of consumption and production processes. The paper shows how as co‐managers in the production and delivery of the banking service, the consumers create value for the bank as well as for their local communities. Further, the paper shows h…
Crisis, critique and the construction of normality
‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean
The Shifting Meaning of Mutuality and Co-Operativeness in the Credit Union Movement from 1959 to 1989
By studying the way that a peak industry association used its newsletter to interpret change in the broader social, political and economic context for their member organisations, we find how these texts sought to unite an increasingly fragmented group of organisations as well as to reinforce the role and identity of the association. We observe the connections between discourse and the organisational identity of the New South Wales (NSW) Credit Un…
Bodies at Work
Creating Something
This article explores the way in which an Australian regional bank has been able to draw on nostalgia for a `golden era' of banking to expand its branch network. The bank's strategy centres on providing local friendly service delivered by civic-minded small-business people through a franchised community bank model. The article aims to contribute to our understanding of emotions in organizations by highlighting the ways in which nostalgia can be u…
Expectant Mothers and Absent Fathers
In this article we explore how the reluctance to introduce a national paid maternity leave scheme in Australia reflects gendered norms and constructions of parenthood and work. We report on the findings of a study of selected media texts that show how the public discourse that surrounded proposals to introduce such a scheme exhibited deep‐seated resistance to women who combine motherhood with continued attachment to the paid workforce. Using a mu…
Misrepresenting Indigenous mothers
Crisis, critique and the construction of normality
‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean
Local heroes
This paper explores the role of consumers as co‐producers of community banks in Australia. Through narrative analysis of the “histories” on the community bank websites, the paper highlights the interconnectedness of consumption and production processes. The paper shows how as co‐managers in the production and delivery of the banking service, the consumers create value for the bank as well as for their local communities. Further, the paper shows h…
Finance capitalism's perpetually extinguished pasts
Gendered futures, constrained choices
What’s Age Got to Do With It? On the Critical Analysis of Age and Organizations
Age, as an embodied identity and as an organizing principle, has received scant attention in organization studies. There is a lack of critical appreciation of how age plays out in organizational settings, the material and discursive dynamics of age practices, how age discourses impact on the body, and how age and ageing intersect with other identity categories. This is curious since age works as a master signifier in contemporary society and is s…
Built to last
This article explores the ways in which male traders negotiate ageing in the highly competitive world of finance. It draws on a study of a UK hedge fund to show how ageing processes intersect with masculinity and class-based bodily practices to reproduce market-based ideals of the sector. Through developing the concept of body accumulation, this article provides a new framework for exploring ageing in an organizational context by demonstrating ho…
Doing Authenticity
Authenticity has been a focus of much leadership research in recent years. Despite this interest, there has been a dearth of studies that explore the role of gender in the social construction of authenticity. To date, authentic leadership theories have tended to be either gender neutral or, where gender has been considered, it is argued that women as ‘outsiders’ are less likely to be accepted by their followers as authentic leaders. In this study…
Work, Age and Other Drugs
This paper explores the work experiences of older male pharmaceutical sales representatives, many of whom are working well past traditional retirement age. In many respects these older sales people are the material signifiers of the company's products because they embody the firm's strategy of selling ‘older’, tried‐and‐tested drugs. Extending their careers well beyond the traditional age at which most Australian men retire enables these sales re…
Spaces and places of remembering and commemoration
Organisations engage in remembering and commemorative practices, often to produce effects of stability and continuity and to create shared meanings and culture, yet commemoration has been a relatively neglected theme in the study of organisations. The articles in this Special Issue range across diverse examples to provide a rich understanding of the dynamic and complex processes involved in the organisation of commemoration. In particular, they i…
Authentic leadership in context
The concept of authentic leadership rose to prominence through its idealization as an inherently moral and universally desirable trait. We problematize this romantic notion by exploring how the ‘authenticity’ of the CEOs of four major Australian banks was discursively constructed before and during the global financial crisis (GFC). Using multimodal discourse analysis of media texts, we show how what it meant to be an ‘authentic leader’ was co-con…
Doing the brand
This article explores how company requirements to consume and perform the brand impact on the attachment fashion retail employees have to the brand. The research finds that over time some workers' attachment to the brand grew, whereas for others it diminished. To explain these differences, the article develops the idea of aesthetic labour as a 'situated relational performance'. Attachment to the brand was mediated by both the 'situated circuit of…
Stopped in our tracks
When the Western Australian government announced in 2010 that Indigenous people would be compensated for unpaid wages, a Yindjibarndi woman named Bigali Hanlon submitted an application to access her government files so that she could lodge a claim. At the age of four, Bigali was taken from her home in Mulga Downs, Western Australia to live in a church‐run hostel for ‘fair‐skinned’ Indigenous children until she was sent into indentured domestic se…
Emotion, aesthetics and sexuality at work
An Ageless Gift
Much of the extant literature views older workers through the lenses of human capital theory or ageism and age discrimination, both of which emphasise older workers' value deficit. Using the case of a company that employs older workers, this article explores how ongoing exchanges between the organisation, its employees and its customers create three inter-related types of value: surplus value, staging value and accrual value. The organisation ext…
Mothering managers
This paper explores motherhood as an organizational subjectivity. Highlighting the experience of older women in a global engineering firm, and my own experience as an academic leader, the paper shows how the maternal body is culturally produced and how discourses of motherhood perpetuate highly gendered notions of who can give and receive care in organizations. This paper argues that the patriarchal construction of women as endlessly maternal, bu…
The Bundian Way
Our paper explores the complex place-based relations of cross-sector partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners. We draw on a longitudinal in-depth case study of the Bundian Way, an Indigenous-led cross-sector partnership of over 40 organisations. Through practices of listening to history and walking ‘on Country’, the non-Indigenous partners and our team came to appreciate the indivisibility of place and time and bear witness to …
Strangers in conversation
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
Workers that matter and work that counts organizing and accounting for value(s)
Special Issues are spaces of political action with the potential to activate new beginnings. As a group of academics, daily confronted with the lives of individuals who struggle for recognition across the societies in which we live, we came together with the intention of posing both timeless and timely questions to our communities: questions about how the value of work is defined, who is counted, and what kinds of work and workers are allowed to …
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