Joanne Duberley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Duberley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Duberley |
| SIGNATURE | DUBERLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden
This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors' career experiences in these countries. We use Acker's inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to explore our data, and argue that similarities in women professors' lived experiences are related to an image of the ideal academic. This ideal type is produced in the interplay of the university gende…
Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling
This article tells the story of Pete, a welfare rights adviser who worked his way up to be Assistant Director of Social Services in a Midlands local authority. Pete joined the public sector with a sense of calling and a belief that local government could create positive social change. Over the next 25 years, however, Pete's calling was increasingly challenged as his job and the context in which he worked were transformed. This article focuses on …
Desert island data
Laurie Cohen and Joanne Duberley describe their use of an unconventional data source—a radio programme—to study celebrity careers. This source also includes music, which evokes memories, and elicits emotions not readily captured in conventional interviews. They used the archives of the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs to study the careers of well-known research scientists. The programme’s format has been consistent over its 70-year histo…
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend …? Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry
Using Acker’s concept of ‘inequality regimes’, this article examines the practices and processes of gender inequality in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, highlighting the complex and subtle nature of discrimination sometimes at play and the strategies used by those who progress within this context. The project involved in-depth interviews during which participants recounted their career stories. Our research study examines the ways in which men …
The future of qualitative research: Unity, fragmentation or pluralism
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that in order to maintain the legitimacy of qualitative management research it is important to re-emphasise the link between epistemology and methodology and recognise that different knowledge-constituting assumptions can underpin what might on the surface seem to be very similar methodologies. This means that the ways in which any research is evaluated needs to be tied explicitly to the underlying …
Constructing careers through narrative and music: An analysis of Desert Island Discs
Time triage: Exploring the temporal strategies that support entrepreneurship and motherhood
Women who are both mothers and paid workers are often represented as facing intractable temporal conflicts ( Maher, 2009 ; Thompson, 1996 ) as they struggle to synchronize organizational work demands with family needs. Despite this, increasing numbers of women are entering the workplace, many of whom are setting up their own business with the intention of realizing the benefits of temporal flexibility that entrepreneurship supposedly bestows ( De…
Examining the Interplay of Career, Migration and National Cultural Identity: The Case of Indian Scientists
In this paper, we examine individuals’ career migration across international borders. It is widely recognized that globalization has fundamental implications for the careers of people across geographical and cultural boundaries. However, our understanding of the interplay of migration, career development and national/cultural identities remains undeveloped within the extant literature. In this paper, we seek to offer insights into this relationsh…
Anomie and culture management: Reappraising Durkheim
This research investigates how recent approaches to culture management have tacitly assimilated Merton’s and Mayo’s reformulations of Durkheim’s theory of anomie.This reformulation legitimates an instrumental focus upon the need for ‘experts’ to regulate the means by which naturalized utilitarian ends are pursued by developing culture management practices that aim to (re)integrate the mal-socialized. In contrast to this technocratic approach, we …
Critical Management Methodology
Reflexivity in Management Research
Recently the term reflexivity has entered management discourses about research, education and practice. This paper highlights the ambiguity which prevails concerning the concept of reflexivity showing how the ways in which reflexivity itself is constituted inevitably articulates epistemological circularity in that commentators’ definitions and prescriptions vary according to their tacit metatheoretical commitments. Hence the aim of this paper is …
Continuity in Discontinuity: Changing Discourses of Science in a Market Economy
There is an emerging consensus that we are experiencing radical change in the way that science is organized and performed. Frequently described as a shift from Mode 1 to Mode 2, this view emphasizes application, transdisciplinarity, collaboration, and accountability. This article examines the ways in which U.K. public sector scientists make sense of scientific endeavor. The data reveal that the extent to which science is being constructed varied …
The Meaning Professionals Give to Management… and Strategy
The relationship between professionals and the organizations in which they work has been seen over the years as problematic. There is literature which suggests that the type of organization in which they work and are allowed to flourish is the quintessential form of organization for our times. There is also literature which suggests that professionals are reluctant, idiosyncratic members of the organizations in which they work, related to this pe…
Fueling Discovery or Monitoring Productivity: Research Scientists' Changing Perceptions of Management
Public sector research institutes are finding themselves in an increasingly competitive, market-driven environment. This study seeks to examine the ways in which scientists make sense of this increasingly `managerial' orientation, and howitis reconciled (or not) with their notions of science and their professional interests and aspirations. A central theme emerging from interviews with scientists was that of increasing management control, and a p…
Time triage: Exploring the temporal strategies that support entrepreneurship and motherhood
Women who are both mothers and paid workers are often represented as facing intractable temporal conflicts ( Maher, 2009 ; Thompson, 1996 ) as they struggle to synchronize organizational work demands with family needs. Despite this, increasing numbers of women are entering the workplace, many of whom are setting up their own business with the intention of realizing the benefits of temporal flexibility that entrepreneurship supposedly bestows ( De…
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden
This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors' career experiences in these countries. We use Acker's inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to explore our data, and argue that similarities in women professors' lived experiences are related to an image of the ideal academic. This ideal type is produced in the interplay of the university gende…
Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling
This article tells the story of Pete, a welfare rights adviser who worked his way up to be Assistant Director of Social Services in a Midlands local authority. Pete joined the public sector with a sense of calling and a belief that local government could create positive social change. Over the next 25 years, however, Pete's calling was increasingly challenged as his job and the context in which he worked were transformed. This article focuses on …
Continuity in Discontinuity: Changing Discourses of Science in a Market Economy
There is an emerging consensus that we are experiencing radical change in the way that science is organized and performed. Frequently described as a shift from Mode 1 to Mode 2, this view emphasizes application, transdisciplinarity, collaboration, and accountability. This article examines the ways in which U.K. public sector scientists make sense of scientific endeavor. The data reveal that the extent to which science is being constructed varied …
Examining the Interplay of Career, Migration and National Cultural Identity: The Case of Indian Scientists
In this paper, we examine individuals’ career migration across international borders. It is widely recognized that globalization has fundamental implications for the careers of people across geographical and cultural boundaries. However, our understanding of the interplay of migration, career development and national/cultural identities remains undeveloped within the extant literature. In this paper, we seek to offer insights into this relationsh…
Fueling Discovery or Monitoring Productivity: Research Scientists' Changing Perceptions of Management
Public sector research institutes are finding themselves in an increasingly competitive, market-driven environment. This study seeks to examine the ways in which scientists make sense of this increasingly `managerial' orientation, and howitis reconciled (or not) with their notions of science and their professional interests and aspirations. A central theme emerging from interviews with scientists was that of increasing management control, and a p…
The Meaning Professionals Give to Management… and Strategy
The relationship between professionals and the organizations in which they work has been seen over the years as problematic. There is literature which suggests that the type of organization in which they work and are allowed to flourish is the quintessential form of organization for our times. There is also literature which suggests that professionals are reluctant, idiosyncratic members of the organizations in which they work, related to this pe…
Continuity in Discontinuity: Changing Discourses of Science in a Market Economy
There is an emerging consensus that we are experiencing radical change in the way that science is organized and performed. Frequently described as a shift from Mode 1 to Mode 2, this view emphasizes application, transdisciplinarity, collaboration, and accountability. This article examines the ways in which U.K. public sector scientists make sense of scientific endeavor. The data reveal that the extent to which science is being constructed varied …
Reflexivity in Management Research
Recently the term reflexivity has entered management discourses about research, education and practice. This paper highlights the ambiguity which prevails concerning the concept of reflexivity showing how the ways in which reflexivity itself is constituted inevitably articulates epistemological circularity in that commentators’ definitions and prescriptions vary according to their tacit metatheoretical commitments. Hence the aim of this paper is …
Critical Management Methodology
Anomie and culture management: Reappraising Durkheim
This research investigates how recent approaches to culture management have tacitly assimilated Merton’s and Mayo’s reformulations of Durkheim’s theory of anomie.This reformulation legitimates an instrumental focus upon the need for ‘experts’ to regulate the means by which naturalized utilitarian ends are pursued by developing culture management practices that aim to (re)integrate the mal-socialized. In contrast to this technocratic approach, we …
Examining the Interplay of Career, Migration and National Cultural Identity: The Case of Indian Scientists
In this paper, we examine individuals’ career migration across international borders. It is widely recognized that globalization has fundamental implications for the careers of people across geographical and cultural boundaries. However, our understanding of the interplay of migration, career development and national/cultural identities remains undeveloped within the extant literature. In this paper, we seek to offer insights into this relationsh…
Constructing careers through narrative and music: An analysis of Desert Island Discs
Time triage: Exploring the temporal strategies that support entrepreneurship and motherhood
Women who are both mothers and paid workers are often represented as facing intractable temporal conflicts ( Maher, 2009 ; Thompson, 1996 ) as they struggle to synchronize organizational work demands with family needs. Despite this, increasing numbers of women are entering the workplace, many of whom are setting up their own business with the intention of realizing the benefits of temporal flexibility that entrepreneurship supposedly bestows ( De…
The future of qualitative research: Unity, fragmentation or pluralism
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that in order to maintain the legitimacy of qualitative management research it is important to re-emphasise the link between epistemology and methodology and recognise that different knowledge-constituting assumptions can underpin what might on the surface seem to be very similar methodologies. This means that the ways in which any research is evaluated needs to be tied explicitly to the underlying …
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend …? Examining gender and careers in the jewellery industry
Using Acker’s concept of ‘inequality regimes’, this article examines the practices and processes of gender inequality in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, highlighting the complex and subtle nature of discrimination sometimes at play and the strategies used by those who progress within this context. The project involved in-depth interviews during which participants recounted their career stories. Our research study examines the ways in which men …
Desert island data
Laurie Cohen and Joanne Duberley describe their use of an unconventional data source—a radio programme—to study celebrity careers. This source also includes music, which evokes memories, and elicits emotions not readily captured in conventional interviews. They used the archives of the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs to study the careers of well-known research scientists. The programme’s format has been consistent over its 70-year histo…
Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling
This article tells the story of Pete, a welfare rights adviser who worked his way up to be Assistant Director of Social Services in a Midlands local authority. Pete joined the public sector with a sense of calling and a belief that local government could create positive social change. Over the next 25 years, however, Pete's calling was increasingly challenged as his job and the context in which he worked were transformed. This article focuses on …
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden
This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors' career experiences in these countries. We use Acker's inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to explore our data, and argue that similarities in women professors' lived experiences are related to an image of the ideal academic. This ideal type is produced in the interplay of the university gende…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Law (4 works)