Susan Vinnicombe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 264246 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Vinnicombe |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Vinnicombe |
| ASSINATURA | VINNICOMBE S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cranfield University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Understanding practices which foster inclusion
Purpose This study aims to deepen our understanding of how inclusionary practices are used within organizations and how they satisfy specific inclusion needs. Design/methodology/approach We adopt a qualitative research design, reporting on data from semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 diversity and inclusion (D&I) directors/leads and using a thematic approach to analysis. Findings Our study expands understanding of inclusion practices, s…
A qualitative exploration of managerial mothers' flexible careers
Reflections on women’s progress into leadership in the UK and suggested areas for future research
Purpose The paper provides an invited “Viewpoint” from Professor Susan Vinnicombe, along with contributions from Professor Sharon Mavin, on women leaders’ progress on UK company boards and suggests areas for future research. Design/methodology/approach Draws on data from the annual UK The Female FTSE Board Report (2021) and The Hidden Truth Report (2022), tracking gender diversity on UK company boards. Professor Vinnicombe outlines reflections on…
Women’s pathways to the boardroom
Director identity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how directors’ roles and social identities are shaped by gender and board life stage, using pre- and post-crisis Iceland as the setting. Recent theoretical work suggests the importance of directors’ monitoring and resource provision roles at certain board life stages; however, there is limited empirical evidence of directors’ identification with these roles as well as social role identification as…
Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations
Little consensus exists regarding conducting intersectional studies. We introduce 'intersectional identity work' as an approach for examining individuals' experiences at the nexus of multiple identities. Incorporating identity work as a theoretical and analytical framework, we use journals and interviews to examine identity-heightening episodes that trigger meaning-making of intersecting senior, gender and ethnic identities among British Asian an…
Handbook of Research on Promoting Women's Careers
Contents:Introduction: Advancing Women's Careers: A Key Business IssueRonald J. Burke and Susan VinnicombePART I: SETTING THE SCENE1. Gender Ratios in Organizations: Managerial and Cross-Cultural IssuesHetty van Emmerik and Merel M.S. Kats2. The Continuing Challenge of Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into Research on Women's Management CareersStella M. Nkomo3. Sprinters, Marathoners and Relay Runners: Profiles of Women's Career Development Over …
Developing women's career competencies through an Emba
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report a qualitative study with British women managers, which explored the career competencies accrued from undertaking an Executive MBA (EMBA). Design/methodology/approach The research drew on in‐depth interviews with a sample of 18 female alumni from three British business schools. Data were analyzed using NVivo 8.0. within the career‐competencies framework of Knowing‐how, Knowing‐why and Knowing‐whom. Fi…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation
Reflections on “Locks and keys to the boardroom”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection on the author's earlier paper published in Gender in Management: An International Journal (formerly Women in Management Review ) in 2003 titled “Locks and keys to the boardroom”. Design/methodology/approach The paper is examined in the context of current research and writing on women on boards. Findings The 2003 paper built on the authors' previous research and writing and informed thei…
Women partners leaving the firm
Purpose This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 31 women using semi‐structured telephone interviews, a 66 per cent response rate. A discursive approach to analysis was adopted. Findi…
Impressing for Success
Social capital theory assesses the career benefits that accrue to individuals from the stock of relationships they have. Such benefits can be in the form of guidance and advice, access to key projects and assignments and help with setting up business deals. However, when assessing whether such career‐enhancing resources are available equally to men and women, we find that gender impacts on the access to and accumulation of social capital. The art…
Women in formal corporate networks
Purpose To investigate women's corporate networks, and the reported benefits for the women and their employers. To gain insight into the motivation for these voluntary activities, by drawing on organisational citizenship theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the issue using in‐depth interviews with chairs and organisers of 12 women's networks, and triangulated the data with an email survey resulting in 164 responses from network …
Supporting women's career advancement
Constructing a professional identity
Role models are often identified as important for aspiring managers as they seek \ninsights into how to develop themselves in their careers. There are, however, \nstill few female role models at the top of companies. This project explores how \nyoung careerminded women use role models. It draws on previous research into how \nprofessionals experimented with their identity projections to become partners in \nUS professional service firms. In-depth…
The fallacy of integration
Many organisations are encouraging their staff to integrate work and non‐work, but a qualitative study of young professionals found that many crave greater segregation rather than more integration. Most wished to build boundaries to separate the two and simplify a complex world. Where working practices render traditional boundaries of time and space ineffective, this population seems to create new idiosyncratic boundaries to segregate work from n…
The 2002 female FTSE index and women directors
The stagnation in the position of female directorships in the UK’s FTSE 100 companies appears to be very slowly changing. After a review of previous research on women directors, this paper reports the statistics on women directors in the top 100 listed companies. The paper comments on the findings regarding companies with women directors, female directorships and the women holding those directorships. It reviews the backgrounds (demographic profi…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
This paper reports an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation. The aim was to ascertain whether there were gender differences in the career facilitators and barriers met en route to the top. The six male and six female directors were asked about the further obstacles which they perceived would have to be faced. Vi…
Sex role stereotyping and requisites of successful top managers
The issue of management style and women’s progression has been highlighted in the past, but women’s perceptions of successful management styles are important too, especially where women’s own preferred management style differs from their view of the top team. Such differences can lead to women not putting themselves forward for promotion. Reports a study of male and female managers in one very large insurance company. Uses the personality attribu…
Profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female banking managers across Europe
Personal conceptions of what constitutes a “successful manager” are important, as they influence an individual’s personal development and subsequent careers. This study investigates profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female managers working in ten European banks operating in Luxembourg. Respondents completed the personality attributes questionnaire (PAQ) and took part in semi‐structured interviews. Results are presented from the 6…
Gendered Meanings of Commitment from High Technology Engineering Managers in the United Kingdom and Sweden
This article considers why women managers are often perceived to be ‘less committed’ at work than men, through an exploration of male and female managers' meanings of ‘commitment’, to see whether their meanings are shared. Despite a large body of literature on the concept of commitment, managers' own meanings of commitment have not been reported. In general, engineers reported that they used the term ‘committed’ without defining what it meant. Th…
Women's Work, Men's Work
White Collar Unionism in Britain-A Survey of the Present Position
Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations
Little consensus exists regarding conducting intersectional studies. We introduce 'intersectional identity work' as an approach for examining individuals' experiences at the nexus of multiple identities. Incorporating identity work as a theoretical and analytical framework, we use journals and interviews to examine identity-heightening episodes that trigger meaning-making of intersecting senior, gender and ethnic identities among British Asian an…
Impressing for Success
Social capital theory assesses the career benefits that accrue to individuals from the stock of relationships they have. Such benefits can be in the form of guidance and advice, access to key projects and assignments and help with setting up business deals. However, when assessing whether such career‐enhancing resources are available equally to men and women, we find that gender impacts on the access to and accumulation of social capital. The art…
Gendered Meanings of Commitment from High Technology Engineering Managers in the United Kingdom and Sweden
This article considers why women managers are often perceived to be ‘less committed’ at work than men, through an exploration of male and female managers' meanings of ‘commitment’, to see whether their meanings are shared. Despite a large body of literature on the concept of commitment, managers' own meanings of commitment have not been reported. In general, engineers reported that they used the term ‘committed’ without defining what it meant. Th…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation
Reflections on “Locks and keys to the boardroom”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection on the author's earlier paper published in Gender in Management: An International Journal (formerly Women in Management Review ) in 2003 titled “Locks and keys to the boardroom”. Design/methodology/approach The paper is examined in the context of current research and writing on women on boards. Findings The 2003 paper built on the authors' previous research and writing and informed thei…
Reflections on women’s progress into leadership in the UK and suggested areas for future research
Purpose The paper provides an invited “Viewpoint” from Professor Susan Vinnicombe, along with contributions from Professor Sharon Mavin, on women leaders’ progress on UK company boards and suggests areas for future research. Design/methodology/approach Draws on data from the annual UK The Female FTSE Board Report (2021) and The Hidden Truth Report (2022), tracking gender diversity on UK company boards. Professor Vinnicombe outlines reflections on…
Women’s pathways to the boardroom
Handbook of Research on Promoting Women's Careers
Contents:Introduction: Advancing Women's Careers: A Key Business IssueRonald J. Burke and Susan VinnicombePART I: SETTING THE SCENE1. Gender Ratios in Organizations: Managerial and Cross-Cultural IssuesHetty van Emmerik and Merel M.S. Kats2. The Continuing Challenge of Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into Research on Women's Management CareersStella M. Nkomo3. Sprinters, Marathoners and Relay Runners: Profiles of Women's Career Development Over …
Women partners leaving the firm
Purpose This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 31 women using semi‐structured telephone interviews, a 66 per cent response rate. A discursive approach to analysis was adopted. Findi…
Understanding practices which foster inclusion
Purpose This study aims to deepen our understanding of how inclusionary practices are used within organizations and how they satisfy specific inclusion needs. Design/methodology/approach We adopt a qualitative research design, reporting on data from semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 diversity and inclusion (D&I) directors/leads and using a thematic approach to analysis. Findings Our study expands understanding of inclusion practices, s…
Director identity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how directors’ roles and social identities are shaped by gender and board life stage, using pre- and post-crisis Iceland as the setting. Recent theoretical work suggests the importance of directors’ monitoring and resource provision roles at certain board life stages; however, there is limited empirical evidence of directors’ identification with these roles as well as social role identification as…
White Collar Unionism in Britain-A Survey of the Present Position
Women's Work, Men's Work
Gendered Meanings of Commitment from High Technology Engineering Managers in the United Kingdom and Sweden
This article considers why women managers are often perceived to be ‘less committed’ at work than men, through an exploration of male and female managers' meanings of ‘commitment’, to see whether their meanings are shared. Despite a large body of literature on the concept of commitment, managers' own meanings of commitment have not been reported. In general, engineers reported that they used the term ‘committed’ without defining what it meant. Th…
Profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female banking managers across Europe
Personal conceptions of what constitutes a “successful manager” are important, as they influence an individual’s personal development and subsequent careers. This study investigates profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female managers working in ten European banks operating in Luxembourg. Respondents completed the personality attributes questionnaire (PAQ) and took part in semi‐structured interviews. Results are presented from the 6…
Sex role stereotyping and requisites of successful top managers
The issue of management style and women’s progression has been highlighted in the past, but women’s perceptions of successful management styles are important too, especially where women’s own preferred management style differs from their view of the top team. Such differences can lead to women not putting themselves forward for promotion. Reports a study of male and female managers in one very large insurance company. Uses the personality attribu…
The 2002 female FTSE index and women directors
The stagnation in the position of female directorships in the UK’s FTSE 100 companies appears to be very slowly changing. After a review of previous research on women directors, this paper reports the statistics on women directors in the top 100 listed companies. The paper comments on the findings regarding companies with women directors, female directorships and the women holding those directorships. It reviews the backgrounds (demographic profi…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
This paper reports an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation. The aim was to ascertain whether there were gender differences in the career facilitators and barriers met en route to the top. The six male and six female directors were asked about the further obstacles which they perceived would have to be faced. Vi…
The fallacy of integration
Many organisations are encouraging their staff to integrate work and non‐work, but a qualitative study of young professionals found that many crave greater segregation rather than more integration. Most wished to build boundaries to separate the two and simplify a complex world. Where working practices render traditional boundaries of time and space ineffective, this population seems to create new idiosyncratic boundaries to segregate work from n…
Women in formal corporate networks
Purpose To investigate women's corporate networks, and the reported benefits for the women and their employers. To gain insight into the motivation for these voluntary activities, by drawing on organisational citizenship theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the issue using in‐depth interviews with chairs and organisers of 12 women's networks, and triangulated the data with an email survey resulting in 164 responses from network …
Supporting women's career advancement
Constructing a professional identity
Role models are often identified as important for aspiring managers as they seek \ninsights into how to develop themselves in their careers. There are, however, \nstill few female role models at the top of companies. This project explores how \nyoung careerminded women use role models. It draws on previous research into how \nprofessionals experimented with their identity projections to become partners in \nUS professional service firms. In-depth…
Women partners leaving the firm
Purpose This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 31 women using semi‐structured telephone interviews, a 66 per cent response rate. A discursive approach to analysis was adopted. Findi…
Impressing for Success
Social capital theory assesses the career benefits that accrue to individuals from the stock of relationships they have. Such benefits can be in the form of guidance and advice, access to key projects and assignments and help with setting up business deals. However, when assessing whether such career‐enhancing resources are available equally to men and women, we find that gender impacts on the access to and accumulation of social capital. The art…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation
Reflections on “Locks and keys to the boardroom”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection on the author's earlier paper published in Gender in Management: An International Journal (formerly Women in Management Review ) in 2003 titled “Locks and keys to the boardroom”. Design/methodology/approach The paper is examined in the context of current research and writing on women on boards. Findings The 2003 paper built on the authors' previous research and writing and informed thei…
Developing women's career competencies through an Emba
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report a qualitative study with British women managers, which explored the career competencies accrued from undertaking an Executive MBA (EMBA). Design/methodology/approach The research drew on in‐depth interviews with a sample of 18 female alumni from three British business schools. Data were analyzed using NVivo 8.0. within the career‐competencies framework of Knowing‐how, Knowing‐why and Knowing‐whom. Fi…
Handbook of Research on Promoting Women's Careers
Contents:Introduction: Advancing Women's Careers: A Key Business IssueRonald J. Burke and Susan VinnicombePART I: SETTING THE SCENE1. Gender Ratios in Organizations: Managerial and Cross-Cultural IssuesHetty van Emmerik and Merel M.S. Kats2. The Continuing Challenge of Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into Research on Women's Management CareersStella M. Nkomo3. Sprinters, Marathoners and Relay Runners: Profiles of Women's Career Development Over …
Women’s pathways to the boardroom
Director identity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how directors’ roles and social identities are shaped by gender and board life stage, using pre- and post-crisis Iceland as the setting. Recent theoretical work suggests the importance of directors’ monitoring and resource provision roles at certain board life stages; however, there is limited empirical evidence of directors’ identification with these roles as well as social role identification as…
Revealing Intersectional Dynamics in Organizations
Little consensus exists regarding conducting intersectional studies. We introduce 'intersectional identity work' as an approach for examining individuals' experiences at the nexus of multiple identities. Incorporating identity work as a theoretical and analytical framework, we use journals and interviews to examine identity-heightening episodes that trigger meaning-making of intersecting senior, gender and ethnic identities among British Asian an…
Reflections on women’s progress into leadership in the UK and suggested areas for future research
Purpose The paper provides an invited “Viewpoint” from Professor Susan Vinnicombe, along with contributions from Professor Sharon Mavin, on women leaders’ progress on UK company boards and suggests areas for future research. Design/methodology/approach Draws on data from the annual UK The Female FTSE Board Report (2021) and The Hidden Truth Report (2022), tracking gender diversity on UK company boards. Professor Vinnicombe outlines reflections on…
A qualitative exploration of managerial mothers' flexible careers
Understanding practices which foster inclusion
Purpose This study aims to deepen our understanding of how inclusionary practices are used within organizations and how they satisfy specific inclusion needs. Design/methodology/approach We adopt a qualitative research design, reporting on data from semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 diversity and inclusion (D&I) directors/leads and using a thematic approach to analysis. Findings Our study expands understanding of inclusion practices, s…
Gender Diversity and Inequality (19 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Public relations (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Business (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Engineering (7 obras) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 obras)