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Linda Smircich

Professor of Management

Telephone: 413-545-5693
Email: smircich@mgmt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 324
Currently Teaching: MGT 331

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1978
M.B.A., Syracuse University, 1975
B.S., State University of New York at Oswego, 1969

Selected Publications:

With Calás, M.B. “At Home from Mars to Somalia: Recounting Organization Studies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-theoretical Perspectives, C. Knudsen & H. Tsoukas (eds.) London: Oxford University Press, (2003): 596-606.

With M.B. Calás. “Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions.” Academy of Management Review 24, no. 4 (1999): 649-71.

With M.B. Calás. “The ‘Woman’s Point of View: Feminist Approaches to Organization Studies.” In The Handbook of Organization Studies, edited by S.R. Clegg, C. Hardy, and W.R. Nord, 218-57. London: Sage, (1996).

With C. Stubbart. (1985) Strategic Management in an Enacted World. Academy of Management Review 10, no. 4 (1985): 724-36.

“Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis.” Administrative Science Quarterly 28 (1983): 339-58.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Editor, Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society
Editorial review board member, Organization Science; Gender, Work and Organization; and Consumption, Markets and Culture.
Guest Editor, Gender, Work and Organization

Awards:

Sage Scholarship Award, 2006
Ruffin Fellow in Business Ethics, University of Virginia, 1990
Dorothy Harlow Award, Academy of Management, 1989
NSF grant- Feminist Theories & Ethics and Values of Organizational Science, (PI), 1989

Photo: Linda Smircich - Professor of Management

Research Interests:

Cultural perspectives on organizations and management
Organization change
Gender and organization, feminist theory


Teaching Interests:

Organizational behavior and theory
Qualitative research, alternative paradigms