Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4083423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Banu Ozkazanc-Pan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Banu |
| FAMILY NAME | Ozkazanc-Pan |
| SIGNATURE | OZKAZANC-PAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5161-9263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“Will the Real Feminist Please Stand Up?”: Plural Feminisms, Narrative Control, and the Politics of Staying In (and Out) at Gender, Work & Organization
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
Towards a multiparadigmatic approach in critical cross-cultural management research: Possibilities from transnational migration studies
To address calls for multiparadigmatic approaches to critical cross-cultural management (CCM) research, this paper engages with ontological, epistemological, and methodological possibilities from transnational migration studies (TMS). Guided by a mobility lens and adding to existing critical approaches within CCM scholarship that have critiqued Western epistemologies and static cultural models for representation, this paper aims to expand critica…
A reflection on governance, ethics and intellectual boundary enforcement in academic journals
Purpose This paper critiques practices related to governance, ethics and intellectual boundary enforcement in critically oriented academic journals in the aftermath of mass resignations from the leading feminist journal, Gender, Work & Organization. In doing so, the paper highlights problematic issues that undermine inclusive academic publishing in regard to non-White, non-Western and/or early-career academics. It calls upon scholars to address t…
Working from everywhere: The future of work and inclusive organizational behavior (IOB)
The rapid digitalization of work, accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, has fundamentally transformed organizational behavior and necessitated a reconceptualization of inclusion in virtual spaces. This editorial synthesizes six groundbreaking studies that advance our understanding of inclusive organizational behavior (IOB) in digital contexts. Drawing on these contributions, we propose a novel, multilevel framework for digital IOB that integrates…
Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies: Building the Future of the Field
Starting a dialogue in difficult times: Intersectionality and education work
This editorial essay is for the special issue “Intersectionality and education work during COVID‐19 transitions.” We reconceptualize intersectionality in the contexts of COVID‐19 to theorize change to education work, introduce the six special issue papers, and provide directions for future research
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies: Building the Future of the Field
Gender, race and power: An intersectional reading of “opting out”
Purpose This paper considers the phenomenon of “opting out” from an intersectional lens, bringing in hitherto undertheorized dimensions of gender, race and power into the conversation related to why and how some women of color may make the “choice” to leave an organization. Design/methodology/approach Through a single case study approach, our research elucidates how identity-connected experiences unconnected to work/life balance constraints and t…
Catching a glimpse: Corona‐life and its micro‐politics in academia
The spread of COVID-19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our homes. Through a collage of stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos and other reflections of everyday life, this collective contribution is catching a glimpse of corona-life and its micro-politics of multiple, often c…
Reimagining value: A feminist commentary in the midst of the Covid‐19 pandemic
“Can value be assigned to productive work which is not paid labor?” Joan Acker, 1973, Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism Value: The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines value as, “the monetary worth of something; a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged; relative worth, utility, or importance; something (such as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable; a numeric…
Gendered labour and work, even in pandemic times
Pandemic times. COVID-19. Many hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have died. At best health and economic systems are strained, with the pandemic exposing racial, social and political vulnerabilities. Threats caused by the pandemic are compounded by the challenges of climate change and environmental uncertainty, threats to Indigenous land rights, poverty and risks to vulnerable communities. Surrounded by uncertainty, fear and anxiety…
A critical moment: 25 Years of Gender, Work and Organization
Anniversary editorial
Superdiversity: A New Paradigm for Inclusion in a Transnational World
Purpose Transnational migration has become a defining feature of many societies across the globe. This paper focuses on contributions to diversity theorizing and research available from “superdiversity”, an analytic framework derived from transnational migration studies. “Superdiversity” speaks to the novel social transformations taking place globally and provides new opportunities, albeit with critique, for conceptualizing and studying people, d…
On agency and empowerment in a #MeToo world
In the midst of the #MeToo movement sweeping across different societies, what opportunities and challenges exist for changing extant gender structures and systems that have allowed for sexual harassment and assault to take shape? Such a discussion provokes questions around what kinds of feminisms, both as philosophical traditions and as a set of praxis/practices, enable societal and organizational change. This article focuses explicitly on differ…
Networking towards (in)equality: Women entrepreneurs in technology
Deploying a multidimensional framework focusing on individual, organizational and societal factors, we investigate gendering practices through which women entrepreneurs become disadvantaged in the technology sector. Through qualitative fieldwork, we focus on women entrepreneurs' experiences networking to access valuable entrepreneurial resources and examine the role of technology incubators and accelerators in facilitating this access. These orga…
Gender, Work and Organization developments in 2018
Organization is rooted in European intellectual traditions and historical moments, Banu's goals are to diversify who speaks for/about experiences of gender, work and organization and how experiences of sexism, racism, and other -isms take shape in contemporary workplaces.Including more scholars and scholarship from the Global South will be one of Banu's main projects.As a female Muslim scholar who became a mother while attempting to gain
Feminist perspectives on social entrepreneurship: Critique and new directions
Purpose The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship research and practice to challenge existing assumptions and approaches while providing new directions for research at the intersections of gender, social and commercial entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply liberal feminist, socialist feminist and transnational/post-colonial feminist perspectives to critically examine issues of gen…
Secular and Islamic feminist entrepreneurship in Turkey
Purpose – This paper aims to highlight secular and Islamic feminist approaches to entrepreneurship as potential means to challenge gender inequality in the Turkish context. In Turkey, gender equality remains elusive in a nation where secular and Islamic ideologies compete and produce different solutions to ongoing economic, socio-cultural and political issues. Women’s entrepreneurship has emerged as an important solution toward gender equality an…
Untold stories of the field and beyond: Narrating the chaos
Purpose The Guest Editors’ intent with this special issue is to tell tales of the field and beyond, but all with the serious end of rendering visible the largely invisible. This paper aims to introduce the articles forming the special issue, as well as reviewing extant work that foregrounds the hidden stories and uncertainties of doing qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach The authors advance their arguments through a literature revie…
Postcolonial feminist research: Challenges and Complexities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges and complexities in conducting research faced by scholars utilizing postcolonial feminist frameworks. The paper discusses postcolonial feminist key concepts, namely representation, subalternity, and reflexivity and the challenges scholars face when deploying these concepts in fieldwork settings. The paper then outlines the implications of these concepts for feminist praxis related to …
Gendered labour and work, even in pandemic times
Pandemic times. COVID-19. Many hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have died. At best health and economic systems are strained, with the pandemic exposing racial, social and political vulnerabilities. Threats caused by the pandemic are compounded by the challenges of climate change and environmental uncertainty, threats to Indigenous land rights, poverty and risks to vulnerable communities. Surrounded by uncertainty, fear and anxiety…
On agency and empowerment in a #MeToo world
In the midst of the #MeToo movement sweeping across different societies, what opportunities and challenges exist for changing extant gender structures and systems that have allowed for sexual harassment and assault to take shape? Such a discussion provokes questions around what kinds of feminisms, both as philosophical traditions and as a set of praxis/practices, enable societal and organizational change. This article focuses explicitly on differ…
Networking towards (in)equality: Women entrepreneurs in technology
Deploying a multidimensional framework focusing on individual, organizational and societal factors, we investigate gendering practices through which women entrepreneurs become disadvantaged in the technology sector. Through qualitative fieldwork, we focus on women entrepreneurs' experiences networking to access valuable entrepreneurial resources and examine the role of technology incubators and accelerators in facilitating this access. These orga…
A critical moment: 25 Years of Gender, Work and Organization
Anniversary editorial
Postcolonial feminist research: Challenges and Complexities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges and complexities in conducting research faced by scholars utilizing postcolonial feminist frameworks. The paper discusses postcolonial feminist key concepts, namely representation, subalternity, and reflexivity and the challenges scholars face when deploying these concepts in fieldwork settings. The paper then outlines the implications of these concepts for feminist praxis related to …
Feminist perspectives on social entrepreneurship: Critique and new directions
Purpose The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship research and practice to challenge existing assumptions and approaches while providing new directions for research at the intersections of gender, social and commercial entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply liberal feminist, socialist feminist and transnational/post-colonial feminist perspectives to critically examine issues of gen…
Reimagining value: A feminist commentary in the midst of the Covid‐19 pandemic
“Can value be assigned to productive work which is not paid labor?” Joan Acker, 1973, Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism Value: The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines value as, “the monetary worth of something; a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged; relative worth, utility, or importance; something (such as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable; a numeric…
Catching a glimpse: Corona‐life and its micro‐politics in academia
The spread of COVID-19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our homes. Through a collage of stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos and other reflections of everyday life, this collective contribution is catching a glimpse of corona-life and its micro-politics of multiple, often c…
Superdiversity: A New Paradigm for Inclusion in a Transnational World
Purpose Transnational migration has become a defining feature of many societies across the globe. This paper focuses on contributions to diversity theorizing and research available from “superdiversity”, an analytic framework derived from transnational migration studies. “Superdiversity” speaks to the novel social transformations taking place globally and provides new opportunities, albeit with critique, for conceptualizing and studying people, d…
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Secular and Islamic feminist entrepreneurship in Turkey
Purpose – This paper aims to highlight secular and Islamic feminist approaches to entrepreneurship as potential means to challenge gender inequality in the Turkish context. In Turkey, gender equality remains elusive in a nation where secular and Islamic ideologies compete and produce different solutions to ongoing economic, socio-cultural and political issues. Women’s entrepreneurship has emerged as an important solution toward gender equality an…
Working from everywhere: The future of work and inclusive organizational behavior (IOB)
The rapid digitalization of work, accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, has fundamentally transformed organizational behavior and necessitated a reconceptualization of inclusion in virtual spaces. This editorial synthesizes six groundbreaking studies that advance our understanding of inclusive organizational behavior (IOB) in digital contexts. Drawing on these contributions, we propose a novel, multilevel framework for digital IOB that integrates…
Postcolonial feminist research: Challenges and Complexities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges and complexities in conducting research faced by scholars utilizing postcolonial feminist frameworks. The paper discusses postcolonial feminist key concepts, namely representation, subalternity, and reflexivity and the challenges scholars face when deploying these concepts in fieldwork settings. The paper then outlines the implications of these concepts for feminist praxis related to …
Untold stories of the field and beyond: Narrating the chaos
Purpose The Guest Editors’ intent with this special issue is to tell tales of the field and beyond, but all with the serious end of rendering visible the largely invisible. This paper aims to introduce the articles forming the special issue, as well as reviewing extant work that foregrounds the hidden stories and uncertainties of doing qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach The authors advance their arguments through a literature revie…
Secular and Islamic feminist entrepreneurship in Turkey
Purpose – This paper aims to highlight secular and Islamic feminist approaches to entrepreneurship as potential means to challenge gender inequality in the Turkish context. In Turkey, gender equality remains elusive in a nation where secular and Islamic ideologies compete and produce different solutions to ongoing economic, socio-cultural and political issues. Women’s entrepreneurship has emerged as an important solution toward gender equality an…
Feminist perspectives on social entrepreneurship: Critique and new directions
Purpose The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship research and practice to challenge existing assumptions and approaches while providing new directions for research at the intersections of gender, social and commercial entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply liberal feminist, socialist feminist and transnational/post-colonial feminist perspectives to critically examine issues of gen…
On agency and empowerment in a #MeToo world
In the midst of the #MeToo movement sweeping across different societies, what opportunities and challenges exist for changing extant gender structures and systems that have allowed for sexual harassment and assault to take shape? Such a discussion provokes questions around what kinds of feminisms, both as philosophical traditions and as a set of praxis/practices, enable societal and organizational change. This article focuses explicitly on differ…
Networking towards (in)equality: Women entrepreneurs in technology
Deploying a multidimensional framework focusing on individual, organizational and societal factors, we investigate gendering practices through which women entrepreneurs become disadvantaged in the technology sector. Through qualitative fieldwork, we focus on women entrepreneurs' experiences networking to access valuable entrepreneurial resources and examine the role of technology incubators and accelerators in facilitating this access. These orga…
Gender, Work and Organization developments in 2018
Organization is rooted in European intellectual traditions and historical moments, Banu's goals are to diversify who speaks for/about experiences of gender, work and organization and how experiences of sexism, racism, and other -isms take shape in contemporary workplaces.Including more scholars and scholarship from the Global South will be one of Banu's main projects.As a female Muslim scholar who became a mother while attempting to gain
A critical moment: 25 Years of Gender, Work and Organization
Anniversary editorial
Superdiversity: A New Paradigm for Inclusion in a Transnational World
Purpose Transnational migration has become a defining feature of many societies across the globe. This paper focuses on contributions to diversity theorizing and research available from “superdiversity”, an analytic framework derived from transnational migration studies. “Superdiversity” speaks to the novel social transformations taking place globally and provides new opportunities, albeit with critique, for conceptualizing and studying people, d…
Gender, race and power: An intersectional reading of “opting out”
Purpose This paper considers the phenomenon of “opting out” from an intersectional lens, bringing in hitherto undertheorized dimensions of gender, race and power into the conversation related to why and how some women of color may make the “choice” to leave an organization. Design/methodology/approach Through a single case study approach, our research elucidates how identity-connected experiences unconnected to work/life balance constraints and t…
Catching a glimpse: Corona‐life and its micro‐politics in academia
The spread of COVID-19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our homes. Through a collage of stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos and other reflections of everyday life, this collective contribution is catching a glimpse of corona-life and its micro-politics of multiple, often c…
Reimagining value: A feminist commentary in the midst of the Covid‐19 pandemic
“Can value be assigned to productive work which is not paid labor?” Joan Acker, 1973, Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism Value: The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines value as, “the monetary worth of something; a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged; relative worth, utility, or importance; something (such as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable; a numeric…
Gendered labour and work, even in pandemic times
Pandemic times. COVID-19. Many hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have died. At best health and economic systems are strained, with the pandemic exposing racial, social and political vulnerabilities. Threats caused by the pandemic are compounded by the challenges of climate change and environmental uncertainty, threats to Indigenous land rights, poverty and risks to vulnerable communities. Surrounded by uncertainty, fear and anxiety…
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies: Building the Future of the Field
Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies: Building the Future of the Field
Starting a dialogue in difficult times: Intersectionality and education work
This editorial essay is for the special issue “Intersectionality and education work during COVID‐19 transitions.” We reconceptualize intersectionality in the contexts of COVID‐19 to theorize change to education work, introduce the six special issue papers, and provide directions for future research
Working from everywhere: The future of work and inclusive organizational behavior (IOB)
The rapid digitalization of work, accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, has fundamentally transformed organizational behavior and necessitated a reconceptualization of inclusion in virtual spaces. This editorial synthesizes six groundbreaking studies that advance our understanding of inclusive organizational behavior (IOB) in digital contexts. Drawing on these contributions, we propose a novel, multilevel framework for digital IOB that integrates…
A reflection on governance, ethics and intellectual boundary enforcement in academic journals
Purpose This paper critiques practices related to governance, ethics and intellectual boundary enforcement in critically oriented academic journals in the aftermath of mass resignations from the leading feminist journal, Gender, Work & Organization. In doing so, the paper highlights problematic issues that undermine inclusive academic publishing in regard to non-White, non-Western and/or early-career academics. It calls upon scholars to address t…
“Will the Real Feminist Please Stand Up?”: Plural Feminisms, Narrative Control, and the Politics of Staying In (and Out) at Gender, Work & Organization
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
Towards a multiparadigmatic approach in critical cross-cultural management research: Possibilities from transnational migration studies
To address calls for multiparadigmatic approaches to critical cross-cultural management (CCM) research, this paper engages with ontological, epistemological, and methodological possibilities from transnational migration studies (TMS). Guided by a mobility lens and adding to existing critical approaches within CCM scholarship that have critiqued Western epistemologies and static cultural models for representation, this paper aims to expand critica…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)