Marta B. Calás : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

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Marta B. Calás is professor of Organization Studies and International Management. Her scholarly work emphasizes theory development and meta-theoretical questions to focus on the construction of organizational knowledge and its consequences. This is interdisciplinary work, following advances in social sciences, humanities and some natural sciences and technology which have coalesced through feminist theorizing over time. With it Prof. Calás brings to visibility how organization and management scholarship normalizes “the world as it is” while highlighting its limitations for articulating “the world that could become”. Her most recent works in this trajectory address problematics regarding the natural environment through the lenses of new materialisms, extending now to concerns with AI and the future of work. She has received several lifetime achievement awards, including the Academy of Management SAGE Award from the Gender, Diversity, and Organization division, and the Pasmore-Woodman Award from the Organization Development and Change division. In 1994, Calás was part of the EIC founding team of the journal Organization, continuing in that position until 2010, and since then as member of the editorial advisory board. The journal celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2024.

Education

PhD, Organization Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1987

MBA, Organizational Behavior, University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1970

Academic Appointments

Professor (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), 1986-Present

Professor (University of Puerto Rico), 1972-1985

Assistant Dean for External Program Development (University of Puerto Rico), 1977-1979

Acting Dean, College of Business Administration (University of Puerto Rico), 1984-1985

Visiting Research Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2012

Fulbright Scholar, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland, Spring 2000

Visiting Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Summer 1992

Recent Honors / Awards

Faculty Public Interest Technology (PIT) Fellowship - theme AI and the Future of Work- University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Marta Calás & Nicole Amos), 2026-2027

All Dried Up: Mutual Mentoring Grant for Women Full Professors at UMass (OFD). Elizabeth Kraus (anthropology), Aline Gubrium (community health education), Marta Calás (organization studies and international management), Sally Campbell Pirie (Child and F, 2024-2025

Journal of Management Inquiry Outstanding Scholar Award (lifetime achievement award). Awarded by the Western Academy of Management (to M.B. Calás & L. Smircich) for scholarly contributions over the years., 2020

Rosa Luxemburg Award (lifetime achievement award). Awarded by the International Critical Management Studies Board for outstanding contributions to critical studies of organization (to M.B. Calás & L. Smircich). Conferred at the 11th ICMS bi-annual confere, 2019

Public Service Endowment Grant, Office of Industry Liaison, University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the project “Extending Capabilities in an Emerging Cycling Service Industry". (M.B Calás & B. Wooldridge (Co-PIs))., 2004

Fulbright Scholar – Åbo Akademi University – Institute for Women’s Studies Åbo/Turku, Finland (for Spring term 2000)., 1999

U.S. Department of Education Title VI 2 years - grant for internationalizing and globalizing the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. (M.B. Calás, P.I.)., 1993

Founding Editor. ORGANIZATION: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory & Society . Member of founding editorial team 1994 – EIC team 1994-2010., Editorial Advisory Board 2010-present

Research Interests

Critical Management Studies

Environmental Sustainability

Gender and Organization

International Management

New Materialisms

Political Ecology

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate

MANAGMNT 380 International Management (formerly MANAGMNT 448)
MANAGMNT 379 Behavior in the Global Econ

Doctoral

SCH-MGMT 802 Conceptual Foundations of Organization Behavior & Theory
SCH-MGMT 893 M Advanced Organization Theory: Paradigms

Selected Publications

Ergene, S. & Calás, M.B. (2025) Sustainability-in-the-making: Enduring commitment to socio-ecological matters of concerns. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 41(4) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101439

Calás, M,B. & Holgersson, C. (2024) Fifteen years of travels and translations: Does “diversity management” still matter? Scandinavian Journal of Management, 40(3) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2024.101356.

Ergene, S., & Calás, M. B. (2023). Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world. Organization Studies, 44(12), pp. 1961-1986. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231175293

Calás, M.B. & Smircich, L. (2023) Organization studies, feminisms and new materialisms: On thinking-saying-doing otherwise. Ch. 1 in M.B. Calás & L. Smircich (eds.) A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms, pp. 1-31. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800881273.00006

Jiang, X., Calás, M.B. & English, A.S. (2022), Constructing the “self”? Constructing the “place”? A critical exploration of self-initiated expatriation in China, Journal of Global Mobility, 10 (3), 416 439. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-06-2021-0064. .

Calás, M.B. & Smircich, L. (2021) Mute, Mutation, and Mutiny: On the work of feminist epistemology. Journal of Management History, 27 (1) 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-09-2020-0062

Calás, M. B., & Smircich, L. (2018) Opening spaces and living in the limits: attempts at intervening in organization studies" In Research in Organizational Change and Development, 26, 389-420. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620180000026010

Ergene, S., Calás, M.B., & Smircich, L.. (2018). Ecologies of sustainable concerns: Organization theorizing for the Anthropocene. Lead article, Special Issue: Gendering sustainability, the environment and organization. Gender, Work & Organization, 25 (3), 222-245. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12189

Calás, M.B, Ou, H., & Smircich, L., (2013) ‘Woman’ on the move: Mobile subjectivities after Intersectionality, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 32 (8): 708-731. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-05-2012-0037

Calás, M.B., Smircich, L. & Bourne. K, (2009) Extending the boundaries: Reframing ‘entrepreneurship as social change from feminist perspectives. Academy of Management Review, 34 (3) 552-569. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2009.40633597

Marta B. Calás

Professor of Organization Studies and International Management