Gender & Diversity

This theme continues the institute's tradition. Since 1979 research has focused on gender and subsequently expanded to issues of diversity and otherness.

Our main theoretical as well as empirical interest is on gender and otherness as a social and discursive practice. We have elaborated on the notion of performativity as well as the relevance of artifacts, materiality and space on the actual "doings" of gender and diversity.

Our research is relevant not only to organizations as well as women and men at work, it is also highly informative for our teaching in the University's teaching programme in gender and diversity studies where students obtain first hand knowledge about timely and crucial issues in the field.

Illustrative Publications

Ursula Offenberger-Kazich, Julia C. Nentwich, "Chancengleichheit, Translation und Interpretative Repertoires – die Übersetzung des Bundesprogramms Chancengleichheit an einer Schweizer Universität oder: ein Tanzkurs für Elefanten im Raum", Neo-Institutionalismus - Revisited. Bilanz und Weiterentwicklungen aus Sicht der Geschlechterforschung, 2017.
Julia C. Nentwich, Gudrun Sander, "Intergrating gender and diversity in management education: Finding the right balance between "integration" and "marginalization", Integrating Gender Equality into Business and Management Education, 2015.
Julia C. Nentwich & Elisabeth Kelan, "Towards a topology of 'doing gender': An analysis of empirical research and its challenges", Gender, Work and Organization, 2014, 21, 2, 121-134.
Julia C. Nentwich & Patrizia Hoyer, "Part-time work practicing resistance: The power of counter-arguments", British Journal of Management, 2014, 24, 4, 557-570.
Chris Steyaert, Anja Ostendorp and Claudine Gaibrois, “Multilingual organizations as 'linguascapes: Negotiating the position of English through discursive practices”, Journal of World Business, 2011, 46, 3.
Chris Steyaert, “Queering space: Heterotopic life in Derek Jarman’s Garden”, Gender, Work and Organization, 2010, 17, 1, 45-68.
Anja Ostendorp and Chris Steyaert, “How different can difference be(come)? Interpretive repertoires of diversity concepts in Swiss-based organizations”, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2009, 25, 4, 374-384.
Julia C. Nentwich, Brigitte Liebig & Chris Steyaert, "Vielfältige Schweiz? Diskurse zu Diversität zwischen globaler Idee und lokalem Verständnis", Diversitas - Zeitschrift für Managing Diversity und Diversity Studies, 2010, 1, 7-15.