Kristin S Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4083498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin S Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5861-1010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards agentic youth engagement
Purpose The aim of this study is to explore the social phenomenon of agentic youth engagement and contribute to its theorization and conceptualization by incorporating youth perspectives. Agentic youth engagement is a development and transformative process involving thinking, acting and experimenting in new ways, resulting in influence and new potentialities. This study asks: “how can youth help us understand agentic youth engagement and contribu…
Intimate encounters
No abstract available
Understanding youth empowerment
Purpose The aim of this study is two-fold: (1) to promote a model of youth participatory research and offer a window of understanding into how it can be enacted and (2) to understand youth perspectives on youth empowerment. This study asks: “how can youth help us understand youth empowerment?” Design/methodology/approach The study applies youth participatory action research (YPAR) and interpretative phenomenological analysis. The study illustrate…
Does kindness matter? Discourses on kindness during the pandemic
Purpose Our research takes inspiration from stories of kindness in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic and investigates what generational entrants, namely those entering the workforce in large numbers, dubbed emerging leaders (ages 19–39) think of the phenomenon of kindness and its potential role in organizations. Guiding the study is the question: “What can emerging leaders tell us about kindness and work?” Design/methodology/approach Ad…
Feminist frustrations
In response to a special call of ‘bringing gender and feminism from the periphery to the centre of business history’, the authors undertake an in-depth appraisal of Business History’s own record, as a key signifier of the field. The scope includes articles and reviews published between 2000 and 2020 and find 17 articles out of 918 (1.85%) and 99 reviews out of 2,217 (4.46%), with a downward trend from 2010 to 2020. To start, the authors engage wi…
Creating good knowledge together
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a novel storytelling approach that investigates lived experience at the intersection of motherhood/caregiving and Ph.D. pursuits. The paper contributes to the feminist tradition of writing differently through the process of care that emerges from shared stories. Design/methodology/approach Using a process called heartful-communal storytelling, the authors evoke personal and embodied stories and tran…
Reclaiming space in family histories
Purpose This article explores memory work and storytelling as an organising tool through family histories, offering theoretical and methodological implications and extending existing conceptualisations of memory work as a feminist method. This approach is termed as impressionist memory work. Design/methodology/approach To illustrate impressionistic memory work in action, the article presents two family histories set during Second World War and in…
Elizabeth Gaskell
This polemical essay argues that Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and her novels North and South , and Mary Barton , portray her as an overlooked, early political economist. The objective of the paper is three‐fold: (1) to dismantle taken‐for‐granted truth claims that Alan Fox is the preeminent thinker on pluralistic forms of employee engagement (2) encourage further development and enlargement of the field and what constitutes its history, …
Kindness-informed allyship praxis
Purpose This paper explores intergenerational perceptions of kindness in the context of Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the COVID-19 global pandemic. The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate perceptions of kindness in the context of traumatic events and its potential value in authentic allyship in organizational environments. Design/methodology/approach Authors interviewed 65 individuals (31 self-identifying as non-racialized…
Introducing ficto-feminism
Purpose Ficto-feminism is offered here as a creative method for feminist historical inquiry in management and organizational studies (MOSs). Design/methodology/approach This paper introduces a new method called ficto-feminism. Using feminist polemics as a starting point, ficto-feminism fuses aspects of collective biography with the emic potential of autoethnography and rhizomatic capacity of fictocriticism to advance not only a new account of his…
Finding Viola
Viola Desmond is now considered a forerunner in the civil rights movement in Canada. Lesser known is her role as a groundbreaking and successful African Nova Scotian entrepreneur. In this paper, the author pursues two objectives: (1) elevate the entrepreneurial accomplishments and lessons of Viola Desmond, and (2) explore a unique feminist approach to critical historiography, which fuses prowoman polemical writing, with fictocritical strategies a…
Unsociable speech
Purpose Cyber incivility is a form of unsociable speech and a common daily workplace stressor. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of cyber incivility on non-profit leaders in Canada and share an intimate portrait of their personal experiences and perceptions. Design/methodology/approach The study advances our understanding of how qualitative methods can be introduced into the study of a phenomenon which has been broadly examined i…
The problem with women
Through an examination of management textbooks, beginning in 1950 and continuing to 2012, the authors chart the socio-political and historical context upon which the management texts were written and tease out the ways that women have been socially constructed as a problem to be managed. The study explores how the problem with women arose and how it has been maintained in organizational settings. The study undertakes a feminist interrogation to u…
The problem with women
Through an examination of management textbooks, beginning in 1950 and continuing to 2012, the authors chart the socio-political and historical context upon which the management texts were written and tease out the ways that women have been socially constructed as a problem to be managed. The study explores how the problem with women arose and how it has been maintained in organizational settings. The study undertakes a feminist interrogation to u…
Introducing ficto-feminism
Purpose Ficto-feminism is offered here as a creative method for feminist historical inquiry in management and organizational studies (MOSs). Design/methodology/approach This paper introduces a new method called ficto-feminism. Using feminist polemics as a starting point, ficto-feminism fuses aspects of collective biography with the emic potential of autoethnography and rhizomatic capacity of fictocriticism to advance not only a new account of his…
Feminist frustrations
In response to a special call of ‘bringing gender and feminism from the periphery to the centre of business history’, the authors undertake an in-depth appraisal of Business History’s own record, as a key signifier of the field. The scope includes articles and reviews published between 2000 and 2020 and find 17 articles out of 918 (1.85%) and 99 reviews out of 2,217 (4.46%), with a downward trend from 2010 to 2020. To start, the authors engage wi…
Elizabeth Gaskell
This polemical essay argues that Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and her novels North and South , and Mary Barton , portray her as an overlooked, early political economist. The objective of the paper is three‐fold: (1) to dismantle taken‐for‐granted truth claims that Alan Fox is the preeminent thinker on pluralistic forms of employee engagement (2) encourage further development and enlargement of the field and what constitutes its history, …
Finding Viola
Viola Desmond is now considered a forerunner in the civil rights movement in Canada. Lesser known is her role as a groundbreaking and successful African Nova Scotian entrepreneur. In this paper, the author pursues two objectives: (1) elevate the entrepreneurial accomplishments and lessons of Viola Desmond, and (2) explore a unique feminist approach to critical historiography, which fuses prowoman polemical writing, with fictocritical strategies a…
Unsociable speech
Purpose Cyber incivility is a form of unsociable speech and a common daily workplace stressor. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of cyber incivility on non-profit leaders in Canada and share an intimate portrait of their personal experiences and perceptions. Design/methodology/approach The study advances our understanding of how qualitative methods can be introduced into the study of a phenomenon which has been broadly examined i…
The problem with women
Through an examination of management textbooks, beginning in 1950 and continuing to 2012, the authors chart the socio-political and historical context upon which the management texts were written and tease out the ways that women have been socially constructed as a problem to be managed. The study explores how the problem with women arose and how it has been maintained in organizational settings. The study undertakes a feminist interrogation to u…
Finding Viola
Viola Desmond is now considered a forerunner in the civil rights movement in Canada. Lesser known is her role as a groundbreaking and successful African Nova Scotian entrepreneur. In this paper, the author pursues two objectives: (1) elevate the entrepreneurial accomplishments and lessons of Viola Desmond, and (2) explore a unique feminist approach to critical historiography, which fuses prowoman polemical writing, with fictocritical strategies a…
Introducing ficto-feminism
Purpose Ficto-feminism is offered here as a creative method for feminist historical inquiry in management and organizational studies (MOSs). Design/methodology/approach This paper introduces a new method called ficto-feminism. Using feminist polemics as a starting point, ficto-feminism fuses aspects of collective biography with the emic potential of autoethnography and rhizomatic capacity of fictocriticism to advance not only a new account of his…
Reclaiming space in family histories
Purpose This article explores memory work and storytelling as an organising tool through family histories, offering theoretical and methodological implications and extending existing conceptualisations of memory work as a feminist method. This approach is termed as impressionist memory work. Design/methodology/approach To illustrate impressionistic memory work in action, the article presents two family histories set during Second World War and in…
Elizabeth Gaskell
This polemical essay argues that Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and her novels North and South , and Mary Barton , portray her as an overlooked, early political economist. The objective of the paper is three‐fold: (1) to dismantle taken‐for‐granted truth claims that Alan Fox is the preeminent thinker on pluralistic forms of employee engagement (2) encourage further development and enlargement of the field and what constitutes its history, …
Kindness-informed allyship praxis
Purpose This paper explores intergenerational perceptions of kindness in the context of Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the COVID-19 global pandemic. The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate perceptions of kindness in the context of traumatic events and its potential value in authentic allyship in organizational environments. Design/methodology/approach Authors interviewed 65 individuals (31 self-identifying as non-racialized…
Understanding youth empowerment
Purpose The aim of this study is two-fold: (1) to promote a model of youth participatory research and offer a window of understanding into how it can be enacted and (2) to understand youth perspectives on youth empowerment. This study asks: “how can youth help us understand youth empowerment?” Design/methodology/approach The study applies youth participatory action research (YPAR) and interpretative phenomenological analysis. The study illustrate…
Does kindness matter? Discourses on kindness during the pandemic
Purpose Our research takes inspiration from stories of kindness in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic and investigates what generational entrants, namely those entering the workforce in large numbers, dubbed emerging leaders (ages 19–39) think of the phenomenon of kindness and its potential role in organizations. Guiding the study is the question: “What can emerging leaders tell us about kindness and work?” Design/methodology/approach Ad…
Feminist frustrations
In response to a special call of ‘bringing gender and feminism from the periphery to the centre of business history’, the authors undertake an in-depth appraisal of Business History’s own record, as a key signifier of the field. The scope includes articles and reviews published between 2000 and 2020 and find 17 articles out of 918 (1.85%) and 99 reviews out of 2,217 (4.46%), with a downward trend from 2010 to 2020. To start, the authors engage wi…
Creating good knowledge together
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a novel storytelling approach that investigates lived experience at the intersection of motherhood/caregiving and Ph.D. pursuits. The paper contributes to the feminist tradition of writing differently through the process of care that emerges from shared stories. Design/methodology/approach Using a process called heartful-communal storytelling, the authors evoke personal and embodied stories and tran…
Towards agentic youth engagement
Purpose The aim of this study is to explore the social phenomenon of agentic youth engagement and contribute to its theorization and conceptualization by incorporating youth perspectives. Agentic youth engagement is a development and transformative process involving thinking, acting and experimenting in new ways, resulting in influence and new potentialities. This study asks: “how can youth help us understand agentic youth engagement and contribu…
Intimate encounters
No abstract available
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Originality (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Feminism (4 works)