Leadership, Gender, and Organization

In this collection, the editors again bring together papers that either exemplify the crossing of disciplinary boundaries, or that allow us to do so in and through the conversations they create. The chapters were chosen based on their relevance to similar themes as were discussed in the first volume. By reviewing historical developments in the literature around gender and organization, and by drawing on recent scholarship that disrupts the traditional masculine imaginaries that plague leadership constructs, this book challenges us to radically revise our gendered thinking about leading in organizations. The authors included in this volume offer alternative, interdisciplinary perspectives on the gender constructs that inform the organizing that takes place in business and society. The book delves deeply into how ’relationality’, as concept and practice, can help us frame a more inclusive approach to gender within contemporary organizations.

Professor Mollie Painter is an international scholar specializing in business ethics, CSR, sustainability and responsible leadership. She has held academic positions in South Africa, the USA, the UK, Slovenia and Denmark. She currently heads up the Responsible and Sustainable Business Lab (RSB Lab), a Research Centre within Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, is an Extraordinary Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Since August 2021, she has been serving as co-Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly. As a philosopher by training, her trademark is bringing insights from 20th century and contemporary philosophy to management and organisational studies.

Patricia H. Werhane, Professor Emerita, was formerly the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia where she is a senior fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at Darden . She was also the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics and director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Today she is adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Gies College of Business and a Fellow for the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society. Werhane was a visiting Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College, Arthur Andersen Fellow at Cambridge University and Erskine Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. She is the author or editor of over 30 books and over 100 articles and book chapters. Currently she is the co-producer of an Emmy award-winning documentary television series, Big Questions aired on Chicago Illinois Channel 11’s second channel, PRIME. Werhane began her career at Loyola University Chicago as Wirtenberger Chair of Business Ethics.