1. Sociology of Management Knowledge Network
SMK-N
EXPO 2014
Saint Mary’s University
March 21 2014
Reassembling Canadian Management Knowledge:
Dispersion, Equity, Identity and History
http://soicologyofmanagementknowledge.com
2. Research Team
• Albert J. Mills
• Principle Investigator
• Jean Helms Mills
• co-investigator
• Gabrielle Durepos co-
investigator
• Amy Thurlow
• co-investigator
• Terrance Weatherbee
• co-investigator
• Patricia McLaren
• co-investigator
• Kristene Coller
• Research Assistant
3. Research Objectives
To gain a greater understanding of how management
knowledge in Canada is produced and the implications for:
I. Management education and the dissemination of ideas
II. Gender equity
III. Canadian identify and history in management theorizing
4. Questions we ask…
… about Knowledge Production
Where does management knowledge come from?
How do certain forms of management knowledge develop
and become privileged?
5. Questions we ask…
… about the Gendering of Knowledge
How do certain forms of management knowledge become
gendered over time?
Does management knowledge privilege masculinity over
femininity?
Through which processes does management knowledge
become gendered?
6. Questions we ask…
… about the relationship between Knowledge and
History
How is knowledge of the past created today?
How does this shape our understanding of management
and organizational history in Canada?
What are the implications for theory and practice?
8. How we will answer the questions…
• 5 Case Studies
• Period of 10 years: 2007-2017
9. How we will answer the questions…
• Case 1 – Atlantic Schools
of Business
• Case 2 – Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada
• Case 3 – Academy of Management
• Tracking new scholars in the GDO
and OB divisions: 2007-2017
• Collect papers presented
• Track for citation counts
• Identify what is disseminated in
textbooks & journals
• Interview new scholars
10. How we will answer the questions…
• Case 4 – Selected management textbooks and journals: 2001-2016
– Identify central themes and ideas against which to compare
selected OB and GDO papers
• How far do new scholars reflect or move beyond those themes?
• How do ideas disseminate in these outlets?
• Which ideas disseminate?
11. How we will answer the questions…
• Case 5 – Canadian Confederation of Federation of
Business School Deans
– Aim to interview selected Deans and Directors
from 2007-2017
– CCFBD Influence the relationship between
publication and tenure decisions of new scholars
12. Contributions
1. Educators will gain insights into the socio-political processes of
knowledge creation
2. A greater understanding of the processes through which
discriminatory thinking develops
– This will assist in developing strategies for addressing discrimination
3. The development of Canadian management history
4. Development of new techniques for studying on-going knowledge
production
