Annette Davies

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical and empirical analysis of the micro-politics of resistance is presented, focusing on the UK public services, drawing from texts generated within interviews with public service professionals in the police, social services and secondary education to explore the meanings individuals ascribe to the discourse of New Public Management and their positioning within these meanings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which NPM initiatives have influenced individual women academics's day-to-day experiences of the gendered academy and their professional identities, and understand individuals' active responses to NPM to develop theorizing of individual resistance in public service organizations.

TL;DR: The authors explored the discursive possibilities available to men and women when they construct their professional self as "knowledge workers" in multinational management consultancies, and argued that this professional identity construction is embedded in a normalizing, gendered discourse of what it means to be an "ideal" consultant.

TL;DR: In this article, the subject of resistance, what "counts" as resistance, and when resistance counts are discussed in the context of organization studies. And the authors argue that feminist theory has worked through these tensions in maintaining a practical politics of change and transformation whilst avoiding the problems of universalism, essentialism and privilege.

TL;DR: The authors suggest that institutions of academic publishing are constantly reproduced through hegemonic practices that serve to maintain and reinforce core-periphery relations between the Anglophone core and peripheral countries such as Finland.