Gavin Jack

Biographic Data

ID75887
NAMEGavin Jack
GIVEN NAMESGavin
FAMILY NAMEJack
SIGNATUREJACK G
AFFILIATIONSLa Trobe University
ORCID0000-0002-0875-5331
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS144
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX7

  • Feeling climate change to the bone: Emotional topologies of climate

    Sarah Wright, Jagjit Kaur Plahe et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly2022Cited by: 8References: 55

    This paper addresses climate change through collaborative work with social movement organisations in the Philippines. We contend that the tendency of work on climate change, social resilience and climate justice to ignore epistemological questions and proceed through technocentric dominant frames can lead to partial responses that support the status quo, contribute to slow (or fast) violence, and enhance ongoing processes of marginalisation. Inst…

  • Development as freedom? Insights from a farmer-led sustainable agriculture non-governmental organisation in the Philippines

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Jagjit Kaur Plahe et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2022Cited by: 3References: 56

    This study addresses freedom, work and organisation by problematising Amartya Sen’s pluralistic notion of (development as) freedom through a fieldwork study of a Filipino non-governmental organisation that promotes sustainable agriculture. In this context, peasant farmers face increasing threat from intersecting agrarian and climate crises, exacerbated by mainstream economic paradigms for agricultural development. For Sen, development encompasses…

  • Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds

    Open AccessNimruji Jammulamadaka, Alex Faria et al.ARTICLEOrganization2021

    This special issue (SI) editorial contributes to ongoing efforts worldwide to decolonise management and organisational knowledge (MOK). A robust pluriversal discussion on the how and why of decolonisation is vital. Yet to date, most business and management schools are on the periphery of debates about decolonising higher education, even as Business Schools in diverse locations function as contested sites of neocolonialism and expansion of Western…

  • Women’s Health in/and Work: Menopause as an Intersectional Experience

    Open AccessKathleen Riach, Gavin JackARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    This paper employs an intersectional lens to explore menopausal experiences of women working in the higher education and healthcare sectors in Australia. Open-text responses from surveys across three universities and three healthcare settings were subject to a multistage qualitative data analysis. The findings explore three aspects of menopause experience that required women to contend with a constellation of aged, gendered and ableist dynamics a…

  • An integrative multilevel review of thriving at work: Assessing progress and promise

    Open AccessZen Goh, Nathan Eva et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior2021Cited by: 10References: 11

    Thriving at work is a notable construct given its role in individual health and developmental outcomes. According to the Socially Embedded Model of Thriving (SEMT), individuals thrive at work when embedded in environments that support agentic behaviors and can self‐sustain this state through positive spirals of agentic behaviors, resources, and thriving. The SEMT is inherently multilevel, yet there are two unarticulated but critical multilevel is…

  • Tracing the Sphinx from symbol to specters: Reflections on the organization of geographies of concern

    Sally Riad, Gavin JackARTICLECulture and Organization2020References: 31

    The concept of the gaze plays an important role in (post)colonial organizational analysis. It addresses dynamics of looking and being seen, particularly as they pertain to knowledge and identity. Drawing on Derrida’s writing on spectrality as it intersects with text and aesthetics, we chart a theoretical framework with which we broaden and deepen extant approaches to the gaze. We illustrate its organizational dynamics across two vignettes that ex…

  • Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Kathleen Riach et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2019Cited by: 28References: 43

    This article advances feminist organizational theorizing about embodiment and subjectivity by investigating menopause at work as a temporally constituted phenomenon. We ask how time matters in women’s embodied and subjective experiences of menopause at work. Theoretically, we draw on feminist writers McNay and Grosz to explore the relationship between gendered agency and time in a corpus of 48 qualitative interviews conducted with women employed …

  • The Affective Economy of the Business Case for Mature Aged Workers

    Open AccessKathleen Riach, Gavin JackARTICLESocial Policy and Society2016Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article draws on Ahmed's (2004) concept of affective economies as a means of critically exploring the nature and consequences of the ‘business case for mature aged workers’: a framework that underpins recent government and corporate policy focusing on extending working lives. Contra to the claims of the business case as wholly rationalistic ‘common sense’ and logical, the article argues that the business case operates discursively by drawing…

  • Deepening, broadening and re-asserting a postcolonial interrogative space in organization studies

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.ARTICLEOrganization2011

    A postcolonial interrogative space has finally, and we believe belatedly, emerged in management and organization studies (MOS). Since the term `postcolonial began to appear in the literature around the mid-1990s, there has been growing interest and some significant contributions that have conceptualized and empirically investigated the nexus of the postcolonial and organization. However, this seeming flourish should not be overstated; it is still…

  • Consuming Chavs: The Ambiguous Politics of Gay Chavinism

    Open AccessJoanna Brewis, Gavin JackARTICLESociology2010Cited by: 9References: 28

    Paul Johnson's (2008) article 'Rude Boys', published in an earlier issue of Sociology , scrutinizes critically the commodification of the male chav for consumption by middle-class homosexual men. This phenomenon, which Andrew Fraser (2005) calls 'chavinism', takes a number of different forms: pornography, sex lines, club nights etc. In part as a response to Johnson's arguments concerning the ways in which chavinism 'further devalue[s] the individ…

  • Engagement, Hybridization and Resistance

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    The preceding two chapters presented an analysis of a set of texts that form(-ed) part of an emergent canon of knowledge in ICCM. Our analysis illuminated a persistent series of ethnocentric, universalizing, essentializing and appropriating representational practices that very often rest upon and reproduce Orientalist tropes. The focus on Western and predominantly American texts may have conveyed the impression that the engagements with the Other…

  • The Institutional Present

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    In Chapter 2 we attempted to delineate the target for our critical interrogation and map the current intellectual terrain of ICCM. We identified a dominant discourse in ICCM in which particular modes of knowledge and the epistemologies and ontologies upon which they depend are valorized: a functionalist paradigm, positivist methods and Western interests. As with all discourses, there is an inclusionary/exclusionary power effect mirrored in the co…

  • Towards an Alternative Institutional Frame

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    We have argued that a radical transformation of ICCM is not merely a matter of methodological refinement, but also one of trenchant reconfiguration of the ontological, epistemological, ethical and political commitments of research practice in the field. Such a reframing is a necessary precursor to any reconsideration of methodology and methods. Given our assessment of the institutional present of ICCM in Chapter 3, it is apparent that any reconsi…

  • Representational Strategies Two: Establishing a Canon

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    By the time we enter the 1980s, ICCM has become a significant subdiscipline within MOS, significant enough to suggest that something approaching a canon had emerged. By canon, we refer to: a) a set of core texts that are considered valid and referential within the field, and taken as (virtually) axiomatically central to it; b) a body of knowledge, methods and principles that are held to be valid and taken as a guiding frame for activity within th…

  • Conclusion

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    In this short concluding chapter to the book, our aim is to provide a reflexive evaluation of the conditions of possibility, significance and limitations of our argument. In consonance with our calls for ICCM researchers to demonstrate reflexivity, we too attempt to speak of our own social identities, structural and epistemic positions, values and interests. We do so in order to acknowledge the forms of privilege and power that enabled the produc…

  • Culture

    Joanna Brewis, Gavin JackCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of critical…2009

  • Colonial Legacies

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    To pose the question whether ICCM represents a continuing form of the colonial project is to ask questions about the nature of colonialism, with particular regard in the first instance to its knowledge systems. As Said (1978), and others, have demonstrated, the non-West has been subjected systematically to the West’s intellectual and scientific technology which has scrutinized, labelled, categorized, taxonomized, codified and ultimately invented …

  • Modernization, Industrialization and Development

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    In the previous chapter we outlined and discussed the historical conditions of possibility, and thus the material and discursive precursors, of the fields of international and cross-cultural management: Western science, anthropology and imperial commercial and organizational practices. This chapter looks at how these knowledge systems became entwined and inter-related through the discourses of modernization, industrialization and development that…

  • Decolonizing Methodology in ICCM

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    The critical analyses presented in the previous two parts of the book suggest that ICCM can be viewed as Western and Eurocentric discourses that exhibit historical as well as contemporary resonance with what might broadly be labelled ‘the colonial project’. Part II located ICCM within the historical development of a political-commercial-military complex whose evolution links Europe’s erstwhile empires with present-day geopolitics. Part III identi…

  • Representational Strategies One: Orientalism and Othering

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    In Part I of the book, we set out our domain of interrogation and specified the contours of its topography. We sought to explicate the current location of that domain in terms of its contextual, quantitative and qualitative parochialisms. In these respects, we identified and critiqued the limited and limiting paradigmatic location of most ICCM research, the hegemonic practices and institutional structure by which its orthodoxy is sustained, and t…

  • The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    This chapter, and the one that follows, set out to demonstrate why a postcolonial interrogation of international and cross-cultural management is essential for its theoretical and political development. We will identify in ICCM the multiple parochialisms (contextual, quantitative, qualitative) that Boyacigiller and Adler found in organizational science. Consequently, we will argue that the field is marked by a lack of demographic and epistemic di…

  • Towards a Postcolonial Reading of ICCM

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    This book presents a critique of the related academic fields of international and cross-cultural management (ICCM) based on certain commitments, concepts and practices from postcolonial theory (PCT). Our core argument is that these academic management disciplines are Western and Eurocentric discourses (knowledge systems and associated institutional practices) that exhibit historical as well as contemporary resonances with what we might call ‘the …

  • Globalization and Multiculturalism

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.CHAPTERInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009

    To reiterate where we are, in Chapter 4 we argued that there is a historical debt to the colonial encounter within ICCM. Our field relies unwittingly on discourses of science, anthropology and earlier colonial commercial practices that were directly involved in the pursuit of formal European Empire. In Chapter 5, we looked at the changes to this complex of economic, political and military interests in the first half of the 20th century. We placed…

  • International and cross-cultural management studies: A postcolonial reading

    Open AccessGavin Jack, Robert I Westwood et al.BOOKInternational and Cross-Cultural…2009Cited by: 24

    A research monograph that analyses and critiques the discourse and practice of international management using the resources of postcolonial theory

  • The US commercial‐military‐political complex and the emergence of international business and management studies

    Open AccessRobert I Westwood, Gavin JackARTICLECritical Perspectives on…2008

    Purpose This paper seeks to present an analysis of the historical emergence of international business and management studies (IBMS) within the context of the post‐World War II USA. It seeks to show how certain conditions of this time and place shaped the orientation of foundational IBMS texts and set a course for the subsequent development of the field. Design/methodology/approach The approach is primarily conceptual. The paper pursues both a his…