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Marta B. Calįs

Professor of Management

Telephone: 413-545-5679
Email: marta@mgmt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 322

Currently Teaching: MGT 394G
Previously Taught: MGT 448

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1987
M.B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1970
B.B.A., University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, 1966

Selected Publications:

Sųndergaard, M., Calįs, M.B. and Donnelly, P.F. (2004) At a Distance: Learning about Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams in an International Management Course. In Wankel, C. & DeFillippi, R. (eds.), The Cutting Edge of International Management Education, 167-200. Grennwich, CT: Information Age Publishing

Calįs, M. B. and Smircich, L. (2004) Revisiting `Dangerous Liasions’ or Does the `Feminine-in-Management’ still meet `Globalization’?, In Frost, P.J., Nord, W.R. & Krefting, L.A. (eds.), Managerial and Organizational Reality: Stories of Life and Work, 467-481. Upper Saddle River: Prentice- Hall.

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

Calįs, M. B. and Smircich, L. (2003) To Be Done With Progress and Other Heretical Thoughts for Organization and Management Studies. In Locke, E. (ed.), Postmodernism and Management: Pros, Cons, and the Alternative, 29-56. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 21. Amsterdam: JAI.

Calįs, M.B. and Smircich, L. (1999) Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions. Academy of Management Review, 24, 649-671.

Calįs, M.B. (1999) Barry Turner for the Ages of Living Dangerously: Risk, ‘New Capitalisms’ and Life in the Coming Century. Organization Studies, 20, 683-694.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Editor, Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society
Editorial review board member, Gender, Work and Organization

Awards:

Sage Scholarship Award, 2006
Fulbright scholar grant, Abo Akademi, Finland, 1999
U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI grant, “Globalizing the School of Management,” 1993
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 (with L. Smircich, PI). 1989

Photo: Professor Marta Calas

Research Interests:

Post-colonial analyses, postmodernism, post-structuralism
Management and globalization, cultural studies
Gender and organization and feminist theories


Teaching Interests:

Conceptual foundations of organization studies
Research and theory in international organization studies
Behavior in the global economy
International management