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Call for Papers - Special Issue of Equal Opportunities International (EOI)

Guest Editors:Jim Barry,Organisation Studies Research Group, University of East London,UK - j.j.barry@uel.ac.uk

Elisabeth Berg Luleו Tekniska Universitet, Sweden - elisabeth.berg@arb.luth.se

John Chandler University of East London, UK j.p.chandler@uel.ac.uk

Gender, Management and Governance in the Public Sector

The recent growth of a new managerialism in the public sector and the development of governance, following economic restructuring and political realignment in the wake of a pervasive neo-liberalism, is by now well documented. This Special Issue of the Journal will consider developments in research related to gender, management and governance in the public sector, and explore connectivities, contradictions and conundrums.Managerialism in the public sector, or the new public management as it has been dubbed, has played a pivotal role in recent changes in many public sectors around the world, albeit to varying degrees, with recent research from a number of countries having identified shortcomings. Topics receiving critical attention have included performance management and managerial evangelism, with some acknowledgement of the importance of local and regional as well as national factors at work, though relatively little of this has been developed from a perspective that takes account of gender. There has been some acknowledgement of resistance, both formally (for example through Trade Unionism) and informally (through networks, individual action and symbolic challenge), and there has been some research on gender identity and the part it plays in propagating and/or mediating the new managerial regimes. Other work, which has taken scarce account of gender, has acknowledged new modes of social and political interaction and looked beyond the new public managerialism, pointing to the increasing significance of non-traditional, flexible, loosely connected networks, and the importance of governance. Yet there has been little consideration given to the part played by civil society or
to those who operate outside recognised institutions, or who bring women's movement values from civil society into the organisational arena. This is so even though such external influences have undoubtedly affected organizational processes, calling into question the work/life balance and the significance of organizational boundaries, as well as drawing attention to the complex interplay of identities enacted and negotiated within public sector organisations.
This suggests the need for the development of these lines of enquiry. Above all it calls for critical analysis of and links between post-new public management and governance through perspectives that take full account of gender.The purpose of the Special Issue is to publish leading edge work on gender, management and governance in the public sector. This will enable a focus on inequality, disadvantage, diversity, inclusion and identities, in relation to recent managerial reforms and shifts in public sector governance. The Guest Editors are particularly interested in papers that explore the connectivities, contradictions and conundrums of their articulation.Papers will be subject to full peer review, using the journal's selection criteria.
Submission will be taken to imply that a paper contains original work that has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

 

Paper Submission Deadline: 31 August, 2006

Paper submissions: Please prepare your paper submissions in Microsoft Word format. All submissions of full papers, conference reports, interviews and book reviews should be made via the electronic submission system: http://jade.emeraldinsight.com.

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