Michal Frenkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 263457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michal Frenkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michal |
| FAMILY NAME | Frenkel |
| SIGNATURE | FRENKEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3925-4115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
He shall rule over thee”? Toward the theorization of gendered religious domestic violence
Purpose This study aims to develop and broaden the understanding of religious domestic violence (RDV) as an entrenched phenomenon, especially in religious communities that affect women and men. Centered on a case study of the Jewish Haredi community – an insular enclave society with internal mechanisms of religious–social control and minimal state intervention – the study focuses on the role of formal and informal religious institutions in interp…
The October 2023 War—From a Colonial to an Imperial Analysis
This essay introduces an imperial approach to the study of Palestine/Israel in general and to the understanding of the 7 October War in particular as an alternative to the colonial perspective. By focusing on how local dynamics have been embedded in the constantly evolving imperial matrix, this perspective aids in moving beyond the oversimplified and binary viewpoints often found in popular political language, which, while based on academic disco…
Layers and limits of power and resistance in multinational subsidiaries
This study analyses how the mutual imbrication of organizational and postcolonial power along with the micro-embedding of actors’ shape and structure power struggles in multinational corporations. Drawing on the case of news agency Reuters’ internationalization and centralization approach at its Indian subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bangalore, our research explores how subsidiaries mobilize resources to pursue their interests in a landscape shaped by…
Bodies in‐between
This paper examines the creation of women‐only organizational spaces as a diversity practice and assesses their potential to facilitate the workforce inclusion of religious women from gender‐conservative groups. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in two ultra‐Orthodox‐Jewish women‐only colleges in Israel and interviews with students and staff, we demonstrate how this practice constitutes three types of liminality—spatial, social, and epistemic—that …
The Start-Up Nation
How did Israel become a “Start-Up Nation” – the Silicon Valley of the Middle East? In this chapter we argue that, in contrast to existing narratives, the rise of Israel’s high-tech sector was the result of a state-led project that dates to the 1970s and originated within the context of Israel’s corporatist economy. Building on emerging scholarship on the topic as well as our own work, we highlight how a myriad of policies and reforms – an innovat…
Industrial espionage revisited
In this article, we take a postcolonial management approach to exploring the lingering significance of postcolonial imagery in shaping legal disputes between host country and foreign multinational corporations. We apply a critical discourse analysis to the Korea versus Orbotech industrial espionage lawsuit, in which the Korean government accused a foreign multinational corporation of leaking its ‘national core technology’. Through this analysis w…
The politics of (in)visibility displays
How does the multiplicity of surveilling gazes affect the experience of employees subjected to a matrix of domination in organisations? Building on a case study of ultra-religious Jewish women in Israeli high-tech organisations, the article demonstrates how the intersectionality of gender and religiosity exposed them to a matrix of contradicting visibility regimes – managerial, peers, and religious community. By displaying their compliance with e…
With God on their Side
On the basis of a case study of the integration of Haredi Jewish women into the Israeli high-tech industry, we explore how gender-religiosity intersectionality affects ultra-conservative women's participation in the labor market and their ability to negotiate with employers for corporate work-family practices that address their idiosyncratic requirements. We highlight the importance of pious women's affiliation to their highly organized religious…
The Interpretation of Design-Based Cues
We advance current understandings about the nature of interpretative processes unique to design-based cues—elements in the organizational environment, such as colors or textures—that affect institutional processes by shaping behaviors and emotions. The implicit assumption in extant work is that because these cues are salient, they are tightly coupled with distinct meanings. We argue, however, that interpretation in the context of these cues is pr…
The Ideological Wellspring of Zionist Capitalism
This chapter discusses the two conventional approaches, namely: the ascription of exclusivity to the political institutions in shaping the dominant discourse, and the assumption of a dramatic turnabout proximate to the historic milestone of 1948. It examines the involvement of the industrialists and the owners of capital in configuring the dominant Zionist ideology already in the prestate years. The chapter describes how the industrialists sought…
The Gendered State of Business
The Multinational Corporation as a Third Space
In this paper I use insights from postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha to analyze international management discourse on the cross-national transfer of knowledge and practices within the multinational corporation. Stressing the increasing importance of first world–third world geopolitical relations in shaping the transfer process, I apply Bhabha's epistemology of mimicry, hybridity, and the third space to offer an alternative understanding of the tran…
The Americanization of the Antimanagerialist Alternative in Israel
Grounded in a historical analysis of the processes of managerialization in Israel between the 1950s and the 1970s, this paper explores the ways in which well-integrated U.S. experts, in collaboration with their Israeli counterparts, retheorized and disarmed the well-institutionalized and antimanagerialist Israeli version of workers' participation in management. It demonstrates how through the bricolage of the radical local alternative with the U.…
Reprogramming Femininity? The Construction of Gender Identities in the Israeli Hi‐tech Industry between Global and Local Gender Orders
Based on the study of gender identities in the Israeli hi‐tech sector, this article sets out to explore the doing of gender in a context comprised of two cultural repertoires characterized by divergent and contradictory fundamental assumptions: the new masculine transnational economy and pro‐natalist Israeli society. The article demonstrates how, by manoeuvering and moving between these global and local cultural repertoires, privileged Israeli hi…
From Binarism Back to Hybridity
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in postcolonial research, we examine the effect of the colonial encounter on the canonization of management and organization studies (MOS) as well as the field's epistemological boundaries. In contrast to Orientalism, which is founded on a neat, binary, division between West and East, we offer (following Latour) a hybrid epistemology, which recognizes that the history of management and organizations shou…
The Politics of Translation
The paper brings together insights from the neo-institutional approach and that of ‘translation’ to analyse the politics of management glocalization. Based on the cases of the translation of two management models—Scientific Management (SM) and Human Relations (HR) in Israel—the paper argues that the state-level institutional power structures that participated in the importing of the SM and HR models as an answer to their political needs also took…
From Americanization to Colonization
Drawing on postcolonial studies, this article seeks to add a layer to the literature concerning the Americanization of productivity models and management in general. Based on a genealogical analysis of Israel's productivity models, we juxtapose two processes by which productivity models were disseminated: first, by the British colonial authorities, and then as part of American technical assistance to Israel. Thus, we draw attention to the close t…
The political embeddedness of managerial ideologies in pre‐state Israel
The study of managerial ideologies focuses exclusively on the emergence of American models and their dissemination in other societies. Argues that the a‐political, scientific and rational façade on which these models are premised is often incommensurate with the industrial experience of “non‐western” societies. Based on the historical case study of Palestine Potash Ltd (PPL), this study explores the development of managerial ideologies within the…
From Binarism Back to Hybridity
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in postcolonial research, we examine the effect of the colonial encounter on the canonization of management and organization studies (MOS) as well as the field's epistemological boundaries. In contrast to Orientalism, which is founded on a neat, binary, division between West and East, we offer (following Latour) a hybrid epistemology, which recognizes that the history of management and organizations shou…
From Americanization to Colonization
Drawing on postcolonial studies, this article seeks to add a layer to the literature concerning the Americanization of productivity models and management in general. Based on a genealogical analysis of Israel's productivity models, we juxtapose two processes by which productivity models were disseminated: first, by the British colonial authorities, and then as part of American technical assistance to Israel. Thus, we draw attention to the close t…
The politics of (in)visibility displays
How does the multiplicity of surveilling gazes affect the experience of employees subjected to a matrix of domination in organisations? Building on a case study of ultra-religious Jewish women in Israeli high-tech organisations, the article demonstrates how the intersectionality of gender and religiosity exposed them to a matrix of contradicting visibility regimes – managerial, peers, and religious community. By displaying their compliance with e…
Reprogramming Femininity? The Construction of Gender Identities in the Israeli Hi‐tech Industry between Global and Local Gender Orders
Based on the study of gender identities in the Israeli hi‐tech sector, this article sets out to explore the doing of gender in a context comprised of two cultural repertoires characterized by divergent and contradictory fundamental assumptions: the new masculine transnational economy and pro‐natalist Israeli society. The article demonstrates how, by manoeuvering and moving between these global and local cultural repertoires, privileged Israeli hi…
With God on their Side
On the basis of a case study of the integration of Haredi Jewish women into the Israeli high-tech industry, we explore how gender-religiosity intersectionality affects ultra-conservative women's participation in the labor market and their ability to negotiate with employers for corporate work-family practices that address their idiosyncratic requirements. We highlight the importance of pious women's affiliation to their highly organized religious…
Bodies in‐between
This paper examines the creation of women‐only organizational spaces as a diversity practice and assesses their potential to facilitate the workforce inclusion of religious women from gender‐conservative groups. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in two ultra‐Orthodox‐Jewish women‐only colleges in Israel and interviews with students and staff, we demonstrate how this practice constitutes three types of liminality—spatial, social, and epistemic—that …
He shall rule over thee”? Toward the theorization of gendered religious domestic violence
Purpose This study aims to develop and broaden the understanding of religious domestic violence (RDV) as an entrenched phenomenon, especially in religious communities that affect women and men. Centered on a case study of the Jewish Haredi community – an insular enclave society with internal mechanisms of religious–social control and minimal state intervention – the study focuses on the role of formal and informal religious institutions in interp…
The Gendered State of Business
The political embeddedness of managerial ideologies in pre‐state Israel
The study of managerial ideologies focuses exclusively on the emergence of American models and their dissemination in other societies. Argues that the a‐political, scientific and rational façade on which these models are premised is often incommensurate with the industrial experience of “non‐western” societies. Based on the historical case study of Palestine Potash Ltd (PPL), this study explores the development of managerial ideologies within the…
From Americanization to Colonization
Drawing on postcolonial studies, this article seeks to add a layer to the literature concerning the Americanization of productivity models and management in general. Based on a genealogical analysis of Israel's productivity models, we juxtapose two processes by which productivity models were disseminated: first, by the British colonial authorities, and then as part of American technical assistance to Israel. Thus, we draw attention to the close t…
The Politics of Translation
The paper brings together insights from the neo-institutional approach and that of ‘translation’ to analyse the politics of management glocalization. Based on the cases of the translation of two management models—Scientific Management (SM) and Human Relations (HR) in Israel—the paper argues that the state-level institutional power structures that participated in the importing of the SM and HR models as an answer to their political needs also took…
From Binarism Back to Hybridity
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in postcolonial research, we examine the effect of the colonial encounter on the canonization of management and organization studies (MOS) as well as the field's epistemological boundaries. In contrast to Orientalism, which is founded on a neat, binary, division between West and East, we offer (following Latour) a hybrid epistemology, which recognizes that the history of management and organizations shou…
The Multinational Corporation as a Third Space
In this paper I use insights from postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha to analyze international management discourse on the cross-national transfer of knowledge and practices within the multinational corporation. Stressing the increasing importance of first world–third world geopolitical relations in shaping the transfer process, I apply Bhabha's epistemology of mimicry, hybridity, and the third space to offer an alternative understanding of the tran…
The Americanization of the Antimanagerialist Alternative in Israel
Grounded in a historical analysis of the processes of managerialization in Israel between the 1950s and the 1970s, this paper explores the ways in which well-integrated U.S. experts, in collaboration with their Israeli counterparts, retheorized and disarmed the well-institutionalized and antimanagerialist Israeli version of workers' participation in management. It demonstrates how through the bricolage of the radical local alternative with the U.…
Reprogramming Femininity? The Construction of Gender Identities in the Israeli Hi‐tech Industry between Global and Local Gender Orders
Based on the study of gender identities in the Israeli hi‐tech sector, this article sets out to explore the doing of gender in a context comprised of two cultural repertoires characterized by divergent and contradictory fundamental assumptions: the new masculine transnational economy and pro‐natalist Israeli society. The article demonstrates how, by manoeuvering and moving between these global and local cultural repertoires, privileged Israeli hi…
The Gendered State of Business
The Ideological Wellspring of Zionist Capitalism
This chapter discusses the two conventional approaches, namely: the ascription of exclusivity to the political institutions in shaping the dominant discourse, and the assumption of a dramatic turnabout proximate to the historic milestone of 1948. It examines the involvement of the industrialists and the owners of capital in configuring the dominant Zionist ideology already in the prestate years. The chapter describes how the industrialists sought…
The Interpretation of Design-Based Cues
We advance current understandings about the nature of interpretative processes unique to design-based cues—elements in the organizational environment, such as colors or textures—that affect institutional processes by shaping behaviors and emotions. The implicit assumption in extant work is that because these cues are salient, they are tightly coupled with distinct meanings. We argue, however, that interpretation in the context of these cues is pr…
The politics of (in)visibility displays
How does the multiplicity of surveilling gazes affect the experience of employees subjected to a matrix of domination in organisations? Building on a case study of ultra-religious Jewish women in Israeli high-tech organisations, the article demonstrates how the intersectionality of gender and religiosity exposed them to a matrix of contradicting visibility regimes – managerial, peers, and religious community. By displaying their compliance with e…
With God on their Side
On the basis of a case study of the integration of Haredi Jewish women into the Israeli high-tech industry, we explore how gender-religiosity intersectionality affects ultra-conservative women's participation in the labor market and their ability to negotiate with employers for corporate work-family practices that address their idiosyncratic requirements. We highlight the importance of pious women's affiliation to their highly organized religious…
The Start-Up Nation
How did Israel become a “Start-Up Nation” – the Silicon Valley of the Middle East? In this chapter we argue that, in contrast to existing narratives, the rise of Israel’s high-tech sector was the result of a state-led project that dates to the 1970s and originated within the context of Israel’s corporatist economy. Building on emerging scholarship on the topic as well as our own work, we highlight how a myriad of policies and reforms – an innovat…
Industrial espionage revisited
In this article, we take a postcolonial management approach to exploring the lingering significance of postcolonial imagery in shaping legal disputes between host country and foreign multinational corporations. We apply a critical discourse analysis to the Korea versus Orbotech industrial espionage lawsuit, in which the Korean government accused a foreign multinational corporation of leaking its ‘national core technology’. Through this analysis w…
Bodies in‐between
This paper examines the creation of women‐only organizational spaces as a diversity practice and assesses their potential to facilitate the workforce inclusion of religious women from gender‐conservative groups. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in two ultra‐Orthodox‐Jewish women‐only colleges in Israel and interviews with students and staff, we demonstrate how this practice constitutes three types of liminality—spatial, social, and epistemic—that …
The October 2023 War—From a Colonial to an Imperial Analysis
This essay introduces an imperial approach to the study of Palestine/Israel in general and to the understanding of the 7 October War in particular as an alternative to the colonial perspective. By focusing on how local dynamics have been embedded in the constantly evolving imperial matrix, this perspective aids in moving beyond the oversimplified and binary viewpoints often found in popular political language, which, while based on academic disco…
Layers and limits of power and resistance in multinational subsidiaries
This study analyses how the mutual imbrication of organizational and postcolonial power along with the micro-embedding of actors’ shape and structure power struggles in multinational corporations. Drawing on the case of news agency Reuters’ internationalization and centralization approach at its Indian subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bangalore, our research explores how subsidiaries mobilize resources to pursue their interests in a landscape shaped by…
He shall rule over thee”? Toward the theorization of gendered religious domestic violence
Purpose This study aims to develop and broaden the understanding of religious domestic violence (RDV) as an entrenched phenomenon, especially in religious communities that affect women and men. Centered on a case study of the Jewish Haredi community – an insular enclave society with internal mechanisms of religious–social control and minimal state intervention – the study focuses on the role of formal and informal religious institutions in interp…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works)