Research Team

Project Objectives Historiography in management and organization studies

Actor-network theory; Critical Sensemaking and ANTi-History

Sociology of Management Knowledge Network (SMK-N)Reassembling Canadian Management Knowledge: Dispersion, Equity, Identity and History

Management theorizing and (the Canadian) context

The overall objective of this study is to gain a greater

understanding of how management knowledge in

Canada is developed and the implications for:

I. Management education and the

diversification and dissemination of ideas

II. Gender equity

III. Canadian identity and history in

management

theorizing

Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Micro processes of knowledge production

Feminist theories of the gendering of knowledge

How do certain forms of (management) knowledge

become gendered (i.e., favour masculinity over

femininity; maleness over femaleness, etc.)? By

understanding some key processes through which

knowledge comes to privilege masculinity over

femininity, we can identity more profound ways of

addressing discriminatory practices.

How do certain forms of (management) knowledge

develop? Through greater understanding of the

process we are better placed to understand,

encourage and disseminate diverse ideas or forms of

knowledge.

How is knowledge of the past created and how does

this shape our understanding of management and

organizational history (in Canada)? Here we are

interested in examining the processes through which

a history (or histories) of Canadian management

thought is lacking and where US management

thought appears to dominate Canadian management

theorizing.

This research takes a postpositivist approach that

combines actor-network theory, poststructuralist

feminist theory, and an approach to the study of

history and the past, ANTi-History, that draws on the

sociology of knowledge, poststructuralist

historiography and actor network theory that is closer

to cultural theory than history per se. This research

draws on insights from sociology, gender

studies/feminism, and cultural theory/new

historicism.Albert J. Mills (Principal Investigator) Saint Mary’s University

Jean Helms Mills (co-investigator) Saint Mary’s University

Gabrielle Durepos (co-investigator) St. Frances Xavier University

Amy Thurlow (co-investigator) Mount Saint Vincent University

Terrence Weatherbee (co-investigator) Acadia University

Patricia McLaren (co-investigator) Wilfrid Laurier University

Kristene Coller (PhD student) Saint Mary’s University

L-R Gabrielle Durepos, Terrance Weatherbee, Amy Thurlow, Jean Helms Mills, Albert Mills, Kristene Coller, Patricia McLaren