Laura Dobusch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Dobusch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobusch |
| SIGNATURE | DOBUSCH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5773-0854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion
Many countries of the Global North are currently facing a strong rise in anti-diversity movements fueled by conservative, right-wing parties and authoritarian, probably fascist regimes, which also affects the workplace. However, organizations are insufficiently equipped to deal with increasing diversity-hostility since most policy approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) focus on promotion- and/or prevention-oriented measures. What is…
Toward a critical study of boundaries in and around organizations
This introduction to the Special Issue makes the political implications of boundaries in and around organizations the central locus of inquiry. It explores the experiences and interests of those who encounter marginalization and exclusion through processes of boundary drawing. Next to introducing the individual papers of the Special Issue and identifying overlapping themes across them, we highlight opportunities to inspire future research on the …
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work
Workers in the low-wage service sector represent a sociodemographically heterogeneous and particularly vulnerable group in terms of job security, job quality and health implications. However, organizational inclusion research has largely neglected this group. In contrast, this article builds on a qualitative study of a Dutch aircraft cleaning company in order to assess the ‘inclusivity of inclusion approaches’ for less privileged groups of employ…
Wie offen sind „offene“ Online-Gemeinschaften? Inklusion, Exklusion und die Ambivalenz von Schließungen
Nach anfänglichem Fokus auf die vermeintlich grenzenlose Offenheit des Internets sowie von onlinebasierten Gemeinschaften im Speziellen sind mittlerweile exkludierende Effekte von „offenen“ Online-Plattformen stärker ins Zentrum soziologischer Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. So zeigt sich auch in als dezidiert offen markierten Online-Gemeinschaften, wie im Bereich der Open-Source-Software oder im Kontext der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia, ein Mangel an D…
The im-/possibility of hybrid inclusion
The notion of uniqueness, as articulated at the centre of most organisational inclusion literature, is inextricably tied to Western-centric idea(l)s of the autonomous, individual and self-sufficient subject, stripped of historical inequalities and relational embeddedness. Following a critical inclusion agenda and seeking alternatives to this predominant view, we apply a Bhabhaian postcolonial lens to the ethnographic study of organisational effor…
The organizational inclusion turn and its exclusion of low-wage labor
As most scholarly work on the conceptualization of organizational inclusion seems to be implicitly based on contexts of high-wage labor, this article investigates whether the common themes of organizational inclusion as identified by Shore et al. (2018) also align with the low-wage labor context. Our respective analysis identifies several mismatches between the current conceptualizations of organizational inclusion and the needs and interests of …
Disability Studies
Einleitung zum Schwerpunktthema Diversitätsforschung
n Contains fulltext :\n 222008.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Privilege and burden of im‐/mobility governance
In order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, nation states have focused on the governance of im-/mobilities: certain mobility restrictions have been enforced, while simultaneously some forms of mobility have been maintained or even enhanced in order to keep the system running in crisis mode. With a special focus on Austria, we analyse the specific politics of im-/mobilities concerning the organization of paid work and show how the socio-spatial con…
The inclusivity of inclusion approaches
Organizational inclusion has become a key concept when dealing with the topic of diversity and inequality in organizations. Its core claim is to be all‐embracing and to “leave no one behind.” However, can mainstream as well as critical inclusion approaches live up to this claim? In this article, I revisit two central concepts—belongingness and recognition—of both approaches from a feminist disability lens in general and the interests and needs of…
Diversity discourses and the articulation of discrimination
Public organisations are contexts that particularly further a contested diversity discourse. They have a long tradition of various equal opportunity policies and are characterised by an internally differentiated structure. Based on interviews in a university and two city administrations in Austria and Germany, this study shows that the ubiquitous 'diversity turn' is not intrinsically opposed to the articulation of discriminations and social inequ…
Gender, Dis‐/ability and Diversity Management
Although the body of diversity research has been growing steadily over recent decades, the impact of diversity management on the inclusion of historically disadvantaged groups is still in question. By jointly examining how gender and dis‐/ability are addressed, shaped and coconstituted by practices labelled as diversity management, this study aims to paint a finer‐grained picture of the inclusionary potential of the ‘diversity turn’. It offers a …
Diversity Limited
Diversity Limited
Diversity Limited
How exclusive are inclusive organisations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to anchor the buzzword “inclusive organisation” in a theory-based perspective by identifying meanings of inclusion and exclusion in various scientific discourses. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview about inclusion/exclusion and its different usage in four “western” scientific discourses. By analysing the role of organisations in each discourse, relevant aspects for specifying the co…
The inclusivity of inclusion approaches
Organizational inclusion has become a key concept when dealing with the topic of diversity and inequality in organizations. Its core claim is to be all‐embracing and to “leave no one behind.” However, can mainstream as well as critical inclusion approaches live up to this claim? In this article, I revisit two central concepts—belongingness and recognition—of both approaches from a feminist disability lens in general and the interests and needs of…
Privilege and burden of im‐/mobility governance
In order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, nation states have focused on the governance of im-/mobilities: certain mobility restrictions have been enforced, while simultaneously some forms of mobility have been maintained or even enhanced in order to keep the system running in crisis mode. With a special focus on Austria, we analyse the specific politics of im-/mobilities concerning the organization of paid work and show how the socio-spatial con…
Diversity discourses and the articulation of discrimination
Public organisations are contexts that particularly further a contested diversity discourse. They have a long tradition of various equal opportunity policies and are characterised by an internally differentiated structure. Based on interviews in a university and two city administrations in Austria and Germany, this study shows that the ubiquitous 'diversity turn' is not intrinsically opposed to the articulation of discriminations and social inequ…
Gender, Dis‐/ability and Diversity Management
Although the body of diversity research has been growing steadily over recent decades, the impact of diversity management on the inclusion of historically disadvantaged groups is still in question. By jointly examining how gender and dis‐/ability are addressed, shaped and coconstituted by practices labelled as diversity management, this study aims to paint a finer‐grained picture of the inclusionary potential of the ‘diversity turn’. It offers a …
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work
Workers in the low-wage service sector represent a sociodemographically heterogeneous and particularly vulnerable group in terms of job security, job quality and health implications. However, organizational inclusion research has largely neglected this group. In contrast, this article builds on a qualitative study of a Dutch aircraft cleaning company in order to assess the ‘inclusivity of inclusion approaches’ for less privileged groups of employ…
How exclusive are inclusive organisations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to anchor the buzzword “inclusive organisation” in a theory-based perspective by identifying meanings of inclusion and exclusion in various scientific discourses. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview about inclusion/exclusion and its different usage in four “western” scientific discourses. By analysing the role of organisations in each discourse, relevant aspects for specifying the co…
How exclusive are inclusive organisations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to anchor the buzzword “inclusive organisation” in a theory-based perspective by identifying meanings of inclusion and exclusion in various scientific discourses. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview about inclusion/exclusion and its different usage in four “western” scientific discourses. By analysing the role of organisations in each discourse, relevant aspects for specifying the co…
Diversity Limited
Diversity Limited
Diversity Limited
Gender, Dis‐/ability and Diversity Management
Although the body of diversity research has been growing steadily over recent decades, the impact of diversity management on the inclusion of historically disadvantaged groups is still in question. By jointly examining how gender and dis‐/ability are addressed, shaped and coconstituted by practices labelled as diversity management, this study aims to paint a finer‐grained picture of the inclusionary potential of the ‘diversity turn’. It offers a …
Diversity discourses and the articulation of discrimination
Public organisations are contexts that particularly further a contested diversity discourse. They have a long tradition of various equal opportunity policies and are characterised by an internally differentiated structure. Based on interviews in a university and two city administrations in Austria and Germany, this study shows that the ubiquitous 'diversity turn' is not intrinsically opposed to the articulation of discriminations and social inequ…
Disability Studies
Einleitung zum Schwerpunktthema Diversitätsforschung
n Contains fulltext :\n 222008.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Privilege and burden of im‐/mobility governance
In order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, nation states have focused on the governance of im-/mobilities: certain mobility restrictions have been enforced, while simultaneously some forms of mobility have been maintained or even enhanced in order to keep the system running in crisis mode. With a special focus on Austria, we analyse the specific politics of im-/mobilities concerning the organization of paid work and show how the socio-spatial con…
The inclusivity of inclusion approaches
Organizational inclusion has become a key concept when dealing with the topic of diversity and inequality in organizations. Its core claim is to be all‐embracing and to “leave no one behind.” However, can mainstream as well as critical inclusion approaches live up to this claim? In this article, I revisit two central concepts—belongingness and recognition—of both approaches from a feminist disability lens in general and the interests and needs of…
The im-/possibility of hybrid inclusion
The notion of uniqueness, as articulated at the centre of most organisational inclusion literature, is inextricably tied to Western-centric idea(l)s of the autonomous, individual and self-sufficient subject, stripped of historical inequalities and relational embeddedness. Following a critical inclusion agenda and seeking alternatives to this predominant view, we apply a Bhabhaian postcolonial lens to the ethnographic study of organisational effor…
The organizational inclusion turn and its exclusion of low-wage labor
As most scholarly work on the conceptualization of organizational inclusion seems to be implicitly based on contexts of high-wage labor, this article investigates whether the common themes of organizational inclusion as identified by Shore et al. (2018) also align with the low-wage labor context. Our respective analysis identifies several mismatches between the current conceptualizations of organizational inclusion and the needs and interests of …
Wie offen sind „offene“ Online-Gemeinschaften? Inklusion, Exklusion und die Ambivalenz von Schließungen
Nach anfänglichem Fokus auf die vermeintlich grenzenlose Offenheit des Internets sowie von onlinebasierten Gemeinschaften im Speziellen sind mittlerweile exkludierende Effekte von „offenen“ Online-Plattformen stärker ins Zentrum soziologischer Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. So zeigt sich auch in als dezidiert offen markierten Online-Gemeinschaften, wie im Bereich der Open-Source-Software oder im Kontext der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia, ein Mangel an D…
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work
Workers in the low-wage service sector represent a sociodemographically heterogeneous and particularly vulnerable group in terms of job security, job quality and health implications. However, organizational inclusion research has largely neglected this group. In contrast, this article builds on a qualitative study of a Dutch aircraft cleaning company in order to assess the ‘inclusivity of inclusion approaches’ for less privileged groups of employ…
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion
Many countries of the Global North are currently facing a strong rise in anti-diversity movements fueled by conservative, right-wing parties and authoritarian, probably fascist regimes, which also affects the workplace. However, organizations are insufficiently equipped to deal with increasing diversity-hostility since most policy approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) focus on promotion- and/or prevention-oriented measures. What is…
Toward a critical study of boundaries in and around organizations
This introduction to the Special Issue makes the political implications of boundaries in and around organizations the central locus of inquiry. It explores the experiences and interests of those who encounter marginalization and exclusion through processes of boundary drawing. Next to introducing the individual papers of the Special Issue and identifying overlapping themes across them, we highlight opportunities to inspire future research on the …
Political science (11 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works)