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PUSHKALA PRASAD Curriculum Vitae

Zankel Professor of Management for Liberal Arts Students Dept. of Management & Business Skidmore College 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1632 Ph. (518)580-5000 E-mail: pprasad@skidmore.edu ________________________________________________________ EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. Second Concentration: Social Theory

M.B.A., Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur, India

B.A. (History), Stella Maris College, University of Madras, India _________________________________________________________

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Zankel Chair Professor, Department of Management & Business, Skidmore College, U.S.A. (June 2000 to present)

Visiting Chair Professor in Corporate Social Responsibility, Department of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden (June 2000 to 2011)

Chair Professor in Public Administration, Department of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden (May 1998-2000) Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Calgary, Canada (1993-1998)

Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics (1997)

Visiting Scholar, Sloan School of Management, MIT (1997)

Assistant Professor, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York (1991-1993)

Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1986-1991)

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___________________________________________________ COURSES TAUGHT AT SKIDMORE COLLEGE

• Foundations in Organizational Behavior (MB224) • Foundations in the International Environments of Business (MB 306) • Introduction to Women’s Studies (GW 101) • Is the Melting Pot Boiling Over? Diversity and Discrimination in the

American Workplace (MB 336H) • Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Capitalism (SSP 100) • Multicultural Flare-Ups: Explosive Identity Conflicts in the USA (ID 221) • Senior Seminar in International Affairs (IA 376) • Faces and Phases of Global Capitalism (IA 351) • Research Methods in International Affairs (IA 201)

COURSES TAUGHT OUTSIDE SKIDMORE COLLEGE

• Human Resource Management (Undergraduate & MBA) ● Managerial Skills (Executive) ● Organizational Behavior (Undergraduate, MBA & Doctoral) ● Organization & Administrative Theory (Undergraduate & Doctoral) ● International Environments of Business (Undergraduate & MBA) ● Qualitative Field Methods (Doctoral Seminar) ● Narrative Genres of Research (Doctoral Seminar) ● Corporate Social Responsibility (Masters & Doctoral)

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DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Judith Birdsell An Institutional Analysis of Policy-Making in the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative (University of Calgary, 1998)

Timothy Hynes Patterns of Mock Bureaucracy in Mining Disasters

(University of Calgary, 1999) Charlotte Echtner A Postcolonial Semiotic Study of the Marketing of Third

World Tourism Destinations (University of Calgary, 2000) Jeffrey Everett Public Policy-Making in Parks Canada: Using Pierre

Bourdieu to Understand Institutional Dynamics (University of Calgary, 2001)

Ralph Meima Environmental Management as a Sensemaking Process:

The Case of Ericsson (Lund University, 2002)

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Agneta Moulettes Crossing Cultures: A Field Study of Three Cross-Cultural

Organizational Encounters. (Lund University, 2010) Peter Svensson Youth Consumer Cultures in Sweden (Lund University,

2004) Sven Andersson Going Bananas: A Socio-historical Analysis of the United

Fruit Company in Costa Rica (Lund University, ongoing) Viktorija Kalonitaite Identity Production among Swedish Immigrants (Lund

University, 2009) ___________________________________________________

EXTERNAL EXAMINER (Doctoral Dissertations) Tamara Johnson School of Business, York University, Toronto, May 1994. David Wicks Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, June 1996.

Michel Racine Faculty of Administrative Studies, Laval University, Quebec, January 1999.

Esther Priyadarshini Department of Management Learning, Lancaster University January 2000. Jane O’Leary Department of Business, University of Queensland,

Australia, March 2011. Adriana Berlingieri Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE),

University of Toronto, April 2015. ___________________________________________________

RESEARCH INTERESTS

● Technological Change in Organizations ● Diversity and Multiculturalism at the Workplace ● Employee Resistance at the Workplace ● Organizational Legitimacy in “Illegitimate” Industries ● Post-Positivist Research Methods ● Corporate Social Responsibility ● Changing Nature of Capitalism

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SCHOLARLY BOOKS Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Post-Positivist Traditions. (second edition). New York: Routledge, 2018. Translated into Japanese, 2017. Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies (CMS).Co-edited with Anshuman Prasad, Albert Mills & Jean Helms Mills, London: Routledge, 2016. Handbook of Workplace Diversity. Co-edited with Alison Konrad & Judith Pringle, 2006. London: Sage Publications. Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. Co-edited with A. Mills, M.B. Elmes & A. Prasad. 1997. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

_____________________________________________________ BOOK CHAPTERS Debating Critical Management Studies (with Anshuman Prasad, Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills). In A. Prasad et al (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. London: Routledge, 2015. Unveiling Europe’s Civilized Face: Gender Identities, New Immigrants and the Discourse of the Veil in the Scandinavian Workplace. In A. Prasad (Ed.). Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies. Copenhagen: Lieber. 2012. Let’s Brain Drain! Workplace Diversity and Equal Treatment in Sweden (with Viktorija Kalonaityle & Adiam Tredros). In A. Klarsfeld (Ed.) International Handbook of Diversity Management at Work: Country Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment: Edward Edgar. 2010. Endless Crossroads” Debates, Disagreements and Deliberations on Organizational Culture (with Anshuman Prasad) In A. Bryman and D. Buchanan (Eds.). Handbook of Organization Research Methods: 128 – 142. London: Sage Publications. 2009. Multiculturalism. Invited entry into the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Edited by Stewart Clegg & James Bailey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 2007. Organizational Challenges at the Periphery: Career Issues for the Socially Marginalized (with Caroline d’Abate & Anshuman Prasad). In H. Gunz et al (Eds.), Handbook of Career Studies. London: Sage Publications. 2007.

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Examining the Contours of Workplace Diversity: Concepts, Contexts and Challenges (with Alison Konrad & Judith Pringle). In A. Konrad, P. Prasad & J. Pringle (Eds.), Handbook of Workplace Diversity: 1-22. London: Sage Publications. 2006. Diversity on Our Minds: Managing Difference in Contemporary Organizations. In S. Nour & L. Nellman Thisted (Eds.), Diversity in Working Life: When We are Equal but not the Same. Copenhagen: Borsen Publishing House. 2005. The Empire of Organizations and the Organization of Empire: Postcolonial Considerations on Theorizing Workplace Resistance (with Anshuman Prasad). In A. Prasad (Ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. 2003. The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. 2003. Casting the Native Subject: Ethnographic Practice and the (Re)Production of Difference (with Anshuman Prasad). In B. Czarniawska & H. Hopfl (Eds.), Casting the Other: The Production and Maintenance of Inequality in Organizations. London: Routledge. 2002. Otherness at Large: Identity and Difference in the New Globalized Organizational Landscape (with Anshuman Prasad). In A. Mills & I. Marjosla (Eds.), Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations. London: Routledge. 2002. Systems of Meaning: Ethnography as a Methodology for the Study of Information Technologies. In A. Lee, J. Liebenau & J. DeGross (Eds.), Information Systems and Qualitative Research. London: Chapman & Hall. 1997. From Showcase to Shadow: Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity (with Albert Mills). In P. Prasad et al (eds.), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 1997. The Protestant Ethic and Myths of the Frontier: Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring and Workplace Diversity. In P. Prasad et al (Eds.), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 1997. Between Text and Context: Restoring Connections in the OB Classroom. In P. Frost & R. Andre (Eds.), Researchers Hooked on Teaching. 1996, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 1996. ___________________________________________________

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REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Smoke and Mirrors: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Gender Identities in the U.S. Tobacco Industry, 1920-1945 (with Anshuman Prasad & Kelly Baker). Organization, 2016, 23: 227-249. Innovation in the Global Age: Implications for Business and Management in the Knowledge Economy (with Anshuman Prasad). International Journal of Business Administration, 4: 82-89. 2013. “One Mirror in Another”: Managing Diversity and the Discourse of Fashion (with Anshuman Prasad & Raza Mir). Human Relations, 2012, 64: 703 – 724. Moving Out: Toward Understanding the Complexity of Outsourcing in the Age of Globalization (with Anshuman Prasad). Business Renaissance Quaterly, 2007, 2: 67 - 91. Global Transitions: The Emerging New World Order and its Implications for Business and Management (with Anshuman Prasad). Business Renaissance Quarterly, 2006, 1; 91-113. In the Name of the Practical: Unearthing the Hegemony of Pragmatism in the Discourse of Environmental Management (with Michael Elmes). Journal of Management Studies, 2005, vol. 42:845-867. The Context of Third World Tourism Marketing (with Charlotte Echtner), Annals of Tourism Research, 2003, vol. 30: 660-682. The Coming of Age of Interpretive Organization Research (with Anshuman Prasad), Organizational Research Methods, 2002, vol.5: 4-11. (Un)Willing to Resist? The Discursive Production of Local Workplace Resistance (with Anshuman Prasad), Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 2001, vol.7: 105-125. Narrating Past Traditions of Participation and Inclusion: Historical Perspectives of Workplace Empowerment (with Dafna Eylon), Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2001, vol.37: 5-14. Understanding Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) in Symbolic Context: Moving from Technology to Interaction (with Abhijit Gopal). MIS Quarterly, 2000, vol.24, 509-546. Stretching the Iron Cage: The Constitution and Implications of Routine Workplace Resistance (with Anshuman Prasad). Organization Science, 2000, vol.11, 387-403.

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The Electronic Transformation of the Organizational Meeting: Using Technology-in-Context to Understand Group Support Systems (GSSs). (with Dan Clapper). Technology Studies , 1999, vol.4, Everyday Struggles at the Workplace: The Nature and Implications of Routine Resistance (with Anshuman Prasad). Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 1998, vol. 15, 225-257. When the Ethnographic Subject Speaks Back. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1998, vol.7, 31-36. Patterns of Mock Bureaucracy in Mining Disasters: An Analysis of the Westray Mine Explosion (with Timothy Hynes), Journal of Management Studies, 1997, vol.34, 601-623. Critical Theory and Management Education: Engaging Power, Ideology and Praxis (with Paula Caproni). Journal of Management Education, 1997, vol.21, Working with the ‘Smart’ Machine: Computerization and the Discourse of Anthropomorphism in Organizations. Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 1995, vol.1, 253-265. The Ideology of Professionalism and Work Computerization: An Institutionalist Study of Technological Change (with Anshuman Prasad). Human Relations, 1994, vol.47, 1433-1458. Drug Testing as Symbolic Managerial Action (with Mike Cavanaugh). Organization Science, 1994, vol.5, 267-271. Symbolic Processes in the Implementation of Technological Change: A Symbolic Interactionist Study of Work Computerization. Academy of Management Journal, 1994, vol.36, 1400-1429. Reconceptualizing Alienation in Management Inquiry: Critical Organizational Scholarship and Workplace Empowerment (with Anshuman Prasad). Journal of Management Inquiry, 1993, vol.2, 169-182. Organization Building in a Yale Union. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1991, vol.27, 337-355. Beyond Text: Making the Implicit Explicit in the OB Classroom (with J. Michael Cavanaugh). Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, 1990, vol.14, 102-108. ___________________________________________________

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PUBLISHED PANEL DISCUSSIONS Doctoral Education and the Teaching Mission. A Dialogue with Jean Bartunek, Lee Burke, Jane Giacobbe-Miller, Craig Lundberg and Pushkala Prasad. Journal of Management Education, 1996, vol.20.

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SPECIAL EDITORIAL ASSIGNMENTS Co-editor (with Paula Caproni), special issue on Critical Theory and Management Education, Journal of Management Education, 1997, vol. 21. Co-editor (with Dafna Eylon), special issue on the History of Workplace Empowerment, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2001, vol.37, No. 1. Co-editor (with Anshuman Prasad), special issue on Interpretive Genres in Organization Research, Organization Research Methods, 2002, vol.5, No. 1. ___________________________________________________ CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Practically Dangerous: Exploring the Hegemony of ‘Pragmatism’ in the Discourse of Environmental Management (with Michael Elmes). Proceedings of the Language in Business and Organizations Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 1999. (Un)willing to Resist? Cunning Actors, Ideological Dupes and the Discursive Constitution of Routine Workplace Resistance (with Anshuman Prasad). Proceedings of the 17th International Labour Process Conference, London, March 1999. What in the World Does International Mean? A Preliminary Investigation of MBA Program Brochures in North American Business Schools (with Chryssa Sharp). Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1996, Washington D.C. Mock Bureaucracy as a Key Factor in Industrial Crises: An Analysis of the Westray Coal Mine Disaster (with Timothy Hynes). Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1995, Ithaca, New York. The Rationalization of the Organizational Meeting: Implications of Group Support Systems for Power, Symbolism and Face-Work (with Danial Clapper). Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems), December 1993, Florida.

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Drug Testing in the Workplace: The Symbolic Management of an Organizational Crisis (with Michael Cavanaugh and John Michael Oakes). Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1992, Baltimore. Life and Death in Career: An Experiential Exercise Linking Career Planning to Student Values and Notions of the ‘Good Life’. Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1992, Baltimore. The Concept of Alienation and Workplace Empowerment (with Anshuman Prasad). Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1991, Hartford. ‘Imaging’ the Organization in the Classroom: Portaiture as a Pedagogic Device for Experiencing Diverse Organizational Realities (with J. Michael Cavanaugh). Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1990, Buffalo. The Computerization of White-Collar Work in Organizations: A Critical and Comprehensive Survey of the Literature with Suggestions for Future Research. Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Annual Meetings, November 1989, New Orleans. Organization-Making and Maintenance: An Interpretive Account of a Union’s Formation in Yale University. Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, May 1989. ___________________________________________________ REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Carried and Delivered: Racialized Gestational Labor and New Contours of Precarity. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society Meetings, Philadelphia, February 2020. The Torn Quilt: Understanding Contemporary Identity Conflicts Through the Vehicle of Explosive Organizational Encounters. Paper presented at the Biannual QRM (Qualitative Research Methods in Organizations) Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2018. Animal Extinctions and Eclipse of the Sacred: The World of the Fur Trade in New England and the Great Lakes Region in the 16th and 17th Century (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual meetings of SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2016. Cooling Down The Heat: The Acquisition of Social Fitness by the U.S. Tobacco Industry, 1910-1999. (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, August 2015.

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Border Controls: Academic Branding and Mechanics of Exclusion in Critical Management Studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association. Washington, D.C., November 2013. Perils of Provincialism in a Globalizing World: Debating the Anglo-Scandinavian Branding of Critical Management Studies (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Boston, 2012 When East Confronts West: Collisions Between Tradition and Modernity in Scandinavian Organizations. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management. San Antonio, August, 2011. The Nomadic Turn in Ethnography: From Single to Multi-Sided Organizational Inquiry (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Montreal, August 2010. Discourse and Materiality: Postcolonial Imaginations and the Veil in the Scandinavian Workplace. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, August 2009. Narrative Genres in Workplace Diversity Research. Paper presented at Annual meeting o ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada), Banff, Canada, June 2006. Servicing Global Power: Towards Understanding Ideology and Representation in International Business (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, August 2005. How to Do Things with Postcolonial Theory: Guidelines for Management & Organization Research “After” Empire. Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, July 2005. Tough Guise: Narratives of Legitimacy in the Beef Industry. Paper presented at the Standing Conference on Management and Organizational Inquiry, Philadelphia, April 2005. Diversity by Design (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, August 2004. Soft Discipline and Discursive Closure in the Academy. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, August 2004. “One Mirror in Another”: Scripts of Fashion in the Theater of Workplace Diversity (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Conference, Lancaster, UK, July 2003.

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Institutions and Exoticization: Managing to Keep the Other in Place. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Denver, August 2002. Designing Difference: Diversity Management and the Discourse of Fashion (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meetings of EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies), Barcelona, July 2002. Between Native and Professional Stranger: Ethnographic Dilemmas in the Study of Organizational Cultures. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Washington, D.C., August, 2001. Crossing Cultures: A Postcolonial Analysis of an Inter-Organizational Encounter (with Agneta Moulettes). Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, U.K., July 2001. Close Encounters with Academic Discreditation (with Mats Alvesson). Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, U.K., July 2001. Managing Legitimacy in ‘Illegitimate’ Organizations. Paper presented at the Invited Conference on Institutions, Conflict and Change, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, December 2000. Promising Rainbows: An Institutional Analysis of Diversity Management in North America. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Toronto, August 2000. Saving the Earth Inc.: The Language and Logic of Market Discourses in Environmental Organizations (with Jeff Everett). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Toronto, August 2000. Casting the Native Subject: Ethnographic Practice and the (Re)Production of Difference (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of EGOS (European Group on Organization Studies), Helsinki, July 2000. Native Places in Organizational Spaces: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Reproduction of Difference. Paper presented at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies International Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, June 2000. Ethnographic Questions and the Question of Ethnography: Journeying from Method to Tradition in a Pluralistic World (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, 1999. The Reflection of Institutional Myths in the Structuring of a National Medical Research Initiative (with Judith Birdsell & Wilfred Zerbe). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, 1999.

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The Natives are Restless: Taking Liberties with Critical Ethnography in a Postcolonial World (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), Edinburgh, July 1999. Diversity/Discrimination/Difference: An American Empowerment Drama in Three Acts (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, San Diego, 1998. The Forked Tongue: Paradox and Ambiguity in the Discourse of Multiculturalism (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at Crossroads: The Second International Conference on Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, 1998. Organizational Responses to Workplace Diversity: Theoretical Insights from Intergroup, Cultural and Institutional Perspectives (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Boston, 1997. Collaborating with Difference: Intergroup, Cultural and Institutional Perspectives on Workplace Diversity (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, Banff, Canada, 1996. The Calvinist and the Cowboy: The Influence of Cultural Identities on Organizational Structuring. Paper presented at the 13th International Meetings of SCOS (the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), Turku, Finland, 1995. The `Informated’ Boss: Work Computerization and the Enhancement of Credibility, Hierarchy and Privilege. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Dallas, Texas, 1994. The Symbol of the Smart Machine: Technological Anthropomorphism, Employee Seduction and Workplace Resistance. Paper presented at the 11th International Meetings of SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), Calgary, Canada, 1994. Practices of the Powerless: Rendering Women’s Resistance Visible. Paper presented at the Canadian Women’s Association Division of the Learneds Conference, Calgary, 1994. Opposition and Disengagement as Resistance: Symbolic Affirmation and the Creation of Personal Space. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, 1993. Using the “P” Word in Organizational Inquiry: Paradigm Discourse and the Construction and Destruction of Disciplinary Boundaries (with Jean Mannheimer Forray). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, 1993. Organizational Values and Culture Conflicts at the Workplace. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, Providence, RI, 1993.

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The Symbolism of Work Computerization. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Las Vegas, 1992. From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl: Managing Cultural Identities as the Walls Come Tumbling Down. Paper presented at Annual Meetings of the OBTC (Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference), Calgary, Canada, 1992. The Ideology of Professionalism and the Structuring of Organizational Reality: An Interpretive Study of Work Computerization (with Anshuman Prasad). Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Miami Beach, 1991. The Obituary Exercise: Linking Ideas of the `Good Life’ with Career Planning. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the OBTC (Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference), Bellingham, WA, 1991. Defining Technological Transformations: Rational and Romantic Constructions of Organizational Realities as Modes of Accommodation. Paper presented at SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), Saarbrucken, Germany, 1990. Voices form the Electronic Shadow: Women’s Experiences with the Computerization of White-Collar Work. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, San Francisco, 1990. Of Pyramids, Ladders and Mazes: Interpreting Organizational Portraits in the Classroom (with Michael Cavanaugh). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of OBTC (Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference), Columbia, Missouri, 1989. ___________________________________________________ RESEARCH WORKSHOPS AND PANELS Panelist, Screening and Discussion of Film, 1984, Tang Museum, April 2017. Organizer and Presenter, Professional Development Workshop, “Critical (Re) Considerations: Mapping and Engaging with the field of CMS. Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, August 2015. Organizer and Presenter, Panel on “White is Also a Color: Identity and Privilege in a ‘Post-Racial’ U.S.A., Skidmore College, October 2012. Presenter, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Imagining Otherwise: Postcolonial Critique and the Search for Alternative Futures.’ Sponsored by the Critical management Studies and the Organizations and Natural Environmental Divisions, Academy of management Annual Meetings, San Antonio, August 2011.

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Chair and Organizer, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility with a Critical Edge.’ Sponsored by Critical Management Studies and Social issues in Management Divisions, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Montreal, August 2010. Panelist, “Immigration in the U.S.: Implications for Our Future”. Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, New York. December 2010. Panelist, Professional Development Workshop, Interrogating Critical Management Studies. Sponsored by the Organizational Development & Critical Management Studies Divisions, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Chicago, August 2009. Organizer and Presenter, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Looking for (Un)Common Ground: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Studying Workplace Diversity.’ Workshop sponsored by the Critical Management Studies and Gender & Diversity in Organizations Divisions of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 2007. Panelist, Professional Development Workshop: Critical Encounters: Labor Process, Structuration and Postcolonialism in Dialogue. Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2005. Invited Presenter, GDO (Gender & Diversity in Organizations) Doctoral Consortium. Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2005. Invited Presenter, CMS (Critical Management Studies) Doctoral Workshop: Discuss your Doctoral Work and Career with Leading CMS Scholars. Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2005. Co-Organizer and Co-Facilitator of Doctoral Workshop on Organization Theory. Sponsored by KATAJA for Doctoral Students in Management, Lappeenranta Universityof Technology, Lappeenranta, June 6-June 10, 2005. Organizer and Presenter, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Raising Voices: Sustaining Critique in Organization Research’. Workshop sponsored by the Research Methods and Critical Management Studies Divisions of the Academy of Management, Seattle, August 2003. Facilitator and Presenter, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Crafting Qualitative Fieldwork’. Workshop sponsored by the Critical Management Studies, Organization Theory and Research Methods Divisions at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Seattle, August 2003. Co-Chair & Facilitator, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Following the Critical Turn: Materialism, Deconstruction & Institutional Ethnography’. Research Methods

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Division, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Washington, D.C., August 2001. Chair & Organizer, Professional Development Workshop, ‘Meeting the Challenges of the New Times: Critical Approaches for Teaching Strategy and Management.’ Management Education Division, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Toronto, August, 2000. Co-chair and Facilitator, Professional Development Workshop, “Interpretive Organizational Research in the Narrative Genres”, Research Methods Division, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Toronto, August 2000. Workshop Organizer, “Interpreting the Interpretive: Different Genres of Qualitative Research. Pre-Conference Workshop, Research Methods Division, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, San Diego, 1998. Facilitator, “Building Collective Research Streams”. Pre-Conference Workshop, Women in Management Division, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Cincinnatti, 1996. Presenter, “Is Value-Free Teaching the Wasteland of Academic Enterprise?” Doctoral Consortium, Western Academy of Management Meetings, Banff, Canada, 1996. Panelist, “Unifying Organization Theory: Paradigm, Paradigms or Pfefferdigm?” Debate sponsored by the Business Policy, Organization Theory and Managerial Cognition Divisions, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, 1995. Panelist, “The Multicultural Classroom”. Pre-Conference Workshop, Organizational Behavior Division, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Dallas, 1994. Symposium Chair, “Organizational Technologies and the Texture of Work: Changing Configurations of Power, Knowledge and Meaning in Post-Industrial Institutions.” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Dallas, 1994. Panelist, “The Next Generation: Who Will Teach Them?” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, Albany, New York, 1994. ___________________________________________________ RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Organizational Oddballs and Outlaws: Managing Illegitimacy under “Liabilities of Deviance” (with Anshuman Prasad and Maureen Scully). Capitalism’s Dark Complexion: Race, Markets and Identity (Book manuscript in preparation.

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Liberal F(r)ictions: An Institutional Analysis of Cultural Conflicts in American Liberal Arts Colleges (Book manuscript under preparation) ___________________________________________________ RESEARCH GRANTS Skidmore Summer Collaboration Grant ($1000). 2020. Carried and Delivered: Mapping the Contours of Global Commercial Surrogate Motherhood. Skidmore Summer Collaboration Grant ($1,600). 2015. Faith in the Workplace: Secularism in the Employment Sectors of Sweden, Denmark, France, India and the U.S.A. Jan Wallander Foundation of the Bank of Commerce of Sweden (Handelsbanken), Sweden ($186,000), “Diversity Professionals in the Swedish Employment Sector”, March 2010-2015. Skidmore College, Project Completion Grant ($5000) June 2004, to complete book manuscript, Crafting Qualitative Research. The Swedish Quality of Worklife Foundation (Forsknings Arbetslivs), Stockholm, Sweden ($240,000), “Managing Diversity as an Organizational Process”, 2001-2005. The Bank of Sweden’s Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbanken Jubileumsfund), Sweden ($230,000), “Narratives of Legitimacy in the Killing Industries: The Acquisition of Social Fitness among the Gun, Tobacco, Armament, Beef and Fur Industries, March 2000-2003. Research Institute in Lund Startbidrag($5000), Organizational Legitimacy as a Process in “Illegitimate” Industries: Studies of the tobacco, gun, weapons and fur industries. Alberta Energy Corporation Research Fellowship Grant ($10,000), “Communication and Culture in the Networked Organization”, May 1996. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, Occasional Conference Grant ($4000), “Breakthroughs, Break-ins and Break-outs: Gender Meets the Academy, 1995. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Grant ($50,000), “Diversity and Discrimination in the North American Workplace”, 1995-1998. Alberta Energy Corporation Research Fellowship Grant ($10,000), “Managing the Multicultural Organization”, January 1995.

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Alberta Energy Corporation Research Fellowship Grant ($10,000), “Understanding Employee Resistance”, May 1994. ___________________________________________________ INVITED GUEST LECTURES & SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS The Open Door: Inclusive Excellence and its Challenges. Keynote address to the Implement Diversity Conference. Stockholm, September 26, 2019. Fractured Rainbows: Identity Conflicts in Liberal Enclaves. Invited symposium, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, September 2019. Capitalism’s Dark Complexion: Theorizing Race, Markets and Identity. Invited Research Seminar, School of Business and Economics, Lund University, Sweden, September 2019. New Diversity Tensions in Liberal Enclaves. Keynote Address to The Diversity and Institutional Change Workshop. Jointly sponsored by the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University and the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal, June 8, 2016. Blowing Smoke: The Management of Moral Illegitimacy in the U.S. Tobacco Industry. Invited Research Seminar, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, January 2016. The Fate of Critical Management Studies in a Globalized World: Keynote Address to the Organization Theory Division of ASAC (administrative Sciences Association of Canada), Halifax, June 2015. Veiled Remarks: Identity Contests, Gender Dynamics and the Discourse of the Islamic Headscarf in the Scandinavian Workplace. Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, April 2015. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Gender Identities in the U.S. Tobacco Industry, 1920-1965, School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 2016. More American Than Apple Pie: America’s Deadly Romance with Beef. Invited Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Standing Conference on Management and Organizational Inquiry. Washington, D.C., April 2013. Permission to Wander: Taking Interdisciplinary Seriously in Organizational Research. Featured Speaker at the Kern Symposium on Business and the Liberal Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, March 2013.

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Following the Discourse of the Veil in the Scandinavian Employment Sector. Spring Research Seminar Lecture, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2012 Crippled Giant: American Decline in an Age of Corporate Takeover. University of Madras, India, January 2012. Multi-Sited Ethnography and Discourse Analysis. Invited Speaker at Pre-Conference Workshop, “Moving Methodology” National Communications Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, November 2012. Workplace Culture and the Islamic Headscarf in Swedish and Danish Organizations. Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, September 2011. The Discourse of the Islamic Veil in Scandinavia. Fourth Annual Lecture at CRED (Center for Research on Equality and Diversity) Queen Mary, University of London, November 2010. The Veil in the Workplace. Lecture delivered as part of the Annual Gender & Identity at the Workplace Series, Radbound University of Nijmejen, The Netherlands, October 2008. Unveiling Europe’s Civilized Face: Gender Relations, New Immigrants and the Discourse of the Veil in the Scandinavian Workplace. Harvard Business School’s Distinguished Research Lecture, Harvard University, October 2007. The Writing on the Wall is in a Foreign Language. Invited Plenary Address at the Annual Meetings of the Atlantic Schools of Business, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. September 2007. Untangling Methodological Interconnections: Local and Global Dilemmas (with Anshuman Prasad), Doctoral Program, OISE (Ontario Institute of Studies in Education), University of Toronto, Toronto, April 2007. Capturing Local and Structural Elements of Workplace Diversity. Keynote Address at the EURODIV Cultural Diversity in Europe Conference, Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium, September 2006. Crafting Qualitative Research. Sobey School of Commerce, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2006. Real Men Eat Beef: Institutional Legitimation in the Beef Industry. Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, Feb. 11, 2005.

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Restoring Quality to Qualitative Research. Invited Lecture at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, December 2004. Insurgent Imaginings: Postcoloniality and Organizational Analysis (with Anshuman Prasad). Swedish School of Economics & Business Administration (HANKEN), Helsinki, May 2004. Destination Unknown: Navigating a Route Toward Managing Diversity. Invited Plenary Lecture at the Danish Institute of Human Rights Annual Award Ceremony, Copenhagen, March 2004. Managing Diversity and the Logic of Fashion. Invited Guest Lecture at OISE (Ontario Institute of Studies in Education), University of Toronto, February 2001. Behind the Bright Face: Entering the Shadow World of Workplace Diversity. Plenary address at the 11th Nordic Migration Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 1999. Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. Invited lecture, Studieforbundet Narlingsliv och Samhalle (Center for Business & Policy Studies), Stockholm, October 1999. The Translation of Institutional Myth into Structure. Invited lecture, SCORE (Stockholm Center for Organization Research), Stockholm, February 1999. Speaking about Resistance: Routine Opposition under Conditions of Flexible Capitalism. Invited lecture, Faculte des sciences de l’administration, Laval University, Quebec City, January 1999. Discourse Analysis and Workplace Resistance. Invited Lecture, Department of International Business and the Environment, Rutgers University, November 1998. Stretching the Iron Cage: Employee Resistance to Technological Change. Invited Lecture, Department of Accounting and MIS, Faculty of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November 1997. Resistance at the Workplace. Guest Lecture, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Goteborg University, Sweden, April 1997. Understanding Routine Resistance at the Workplace. Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, April 1997. Changing HRM Orientations in a Post-Fordist World. Helsinki Chamber of Commerce, Helsinki, Finland, February 1997. Safety Lessons From Industrial Disasters: Rule Violation in Complex and Linear Organizations. Distinguished Lecture, Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Services Conference, Calgary, Canada, October 1996.

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Electronic Meetings and Organizational Dynamics. Department of Psychology, University of Richmond, Virginia, January 1996. Managing the Brainy Monster: Computers and Technological Anthropomorphism in Organizations. Faculty of Administrative Sciences, York University, Toronto, May 1995. Is the Welcome Mat for Women Managers Wearing Thin? The Xerox Women for Excellence Network, Calgary, October 1994. __________________________________________________ ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Edwin Moseley Lectureship, 2017. The Moseley Lectureship is Skidmore College’s highest academic honor given annually to a faculty in recognition of their outstanding scholarly achievements. Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Public Interest Accounting, University of Calgary, May 2006. Emerald Management Reviews Award for Outstanding Empirical Paper, 2004. Listed in Who’s Who in the Management Sciences (2000). London: Edward Elgar. International Working Member, Lund Research Institute, Lund, Sweden, 1999. Outstanding Research Award, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary, 1998 Ascendent Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, U.S.A., 1997. Invited Scholar, President’s ‘Celebration of Excellence’, University of Calgary, 1995. Outstanding New Scholar Award, University of Calgary, 1995. Outstanding New Teacher Award, Clarkson University, 1993. Best Experiential Paper Award, Eastern Academy of Management, 1992. Honorary Member, Alpha Sigma Lambda, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989. Nominee, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988. Beta Gamma Sigma, National Honor Society for Business Schools, 1988. X.L.R.I. Scholarship, Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur, India, 1983.

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V.L. Ethiraj Award for Proficiency in English, University of Madras, 1973. ___________________________________________________ CONFERENCE COORDINATION Organizer and Participant, The Sandwich Interdisciplinary Making a Difference Workshop, Sandwich, Massachusetts, June 2014. Sponsored by a grant from the Bank of Commerce of Sweden. Co-Convenor, Multinationals Under Globalization Stream, Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge University, July 2005. Co-Convenor, Postcolonialism Stream, Critical Management Studies Conference, Lancaster, July 2003. Co-Convenor, Open Track Session, 16th Annual Meeting of EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies), Helsinki, July 2000. Convenor, Globalization Stream, Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, July 1999. Track Chair, Organizational Behavior, Eastern Academy of Management Annual Conference, May 1996. ___________________________________________________ EDITORIAL BOARDS Journal of Management Studies (2004-2006) Group and Organization Management (2003- 2005) Organizational Research Methods (1999 to present). Technology Studies (1995-1998) Journal of Management Inquiry (1994 to present) SCHOLARLY REVIEW ACTIVTIES A. Academic Journals (ad hoc reviews) Information and Organization

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Gender, Work and Organization Organization Studies Organization Scandinavian Journal of Management Academy of Management Journal Academy of Management Review MIS Quarterly Human Relations Organization Science Administrative Science Quarterly Information Technology and People Journal of Management Education B. Academic Conferences Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, Academy of Management Research Methods Division, Academy of Management Eastern Academy of Management Annual Conference C. Research Grants Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S.A. D. Book Publishers Sage Publications Oxford University Press

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Routledge Publications Emerald Publishers Elsevier Science Publishers Stanford University Press Cornell University Press ___________________________________________________ SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Member, Service Engagement Award Selection Committee, National Communications Association, 2019. Member, Dorothy Harlow Award Committee, Women in Management Division, Academy of Management, 1997. Chair, Roethlisberger Award Committee, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, 1994. Board of Directors, SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), 1994-1997. Board of Governors, Eastern Academy of Management, 1992-1995. Search Committee for Editor, Journal of Management Education, 1992.

___________________________________________________ UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE SERVICE AND INITIATIVES A. Skidmore College Member, Steering Committee, Gender Studies Program, Fall 2018 Chair, Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure (CAPT), 2017-2018. Member, Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure (CAPT), 2015-2017. Co-Chair, Diversity Segment, Middle States Report, 2014-2015.

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Member, Task Force to constitute a new minor in Film and Media Studies, 2013 to 2014. Organizer, Annual Lecture in International Affairs, 2012 – present. Founder and Co-ordination of the Skidmore Research Colloquium (an interdisciplinary scholarly forum), 2008 to present. Steering Committee, International Affairs Program, 2012 to present. Member, Search Committee, Tang Chair in Asian Studies, 2015. Member and Diversity Advocate, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Marketing Position, Department of Management, 2013. Member and Diversity Advocate, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in International Affairs, International Affairs Program, 2012-2013. Member, Committee to Revise and Expand International Affairs Curriculum, 2012 to present. Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Strategic Management, 2012. Facilitator, Junior Faculty Mentorship Program, 2013 to 2016. Panelist, College Climate Discussion, Academic Staff Retreat, 2011. Chair, Committee on Departmental Restructuring, Management & Business, 2010-2011 Member, Committee on Intercultural and Global Understanding (CIGU), 2005-2008. Advisory Board, Women’s Studies Program, 2005-2010. Member, Honors Council, 2005-2006. Member, Recruitment Committee, Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior, Department of Management & Business, 2003-2004. Member, Mellon Faculty Development Group, 2003-2004. Member, MALS (Master of Liberal Arts), 2003-2004. Founder and Organizer, Annual Arthur Zankel Lecture Bridging Management and the Liberal Arts, 2001-present.

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Chair of Sub-Committee Directed with the Task of Writing a Section of the Departmental Self-study Report Dealing with Faculty Profiles, Development, Recruitment and Retention. Coordinator, Research Roundtable, Management & Business Department, Fall 2000-2001. B. Lund University Member, Business-University Partnership Initiative, 1998-2000. Associate Director, Doctoral Student Development Program, 1998-2000. Member, Committee for Accreditation (AACSB), Intellectual Contributions Focus, 1999-2000. Coordinator, Guest Speaker Forum, 1998-2000. C. University of Calgary Member, University Committee Granting Tenure and Promotion, 1995-1996. Associate Director, Doctoral Program, Faculty of Management, 1994-1997. Member, University Task force on Sexual Harassment, 1995-1997. Member, University Travel Funds Committee, 1994-1996. Member, Performance Evaluation Committee, Faculty of Management, 1995-1997.

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REFERENCES Available on request