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  • 2024
  • Conference Presentation

Defending White Hegemonic Masculinity

By: R. Ely, Sanaz Mobasseri and I. Oneyador
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Ely, R., Sanaz Mobasseri, and I. Oneyador. "Defending White Hegemonic Masculinity." Paper presented at the 84th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago , IL, USA, 2024.
  • 2017
  • Gender Conformity & Nonconformity

Organizational Culture as Masculinity Contest: Developing and Validating a Climate Measure

  • September 2018
  • Article

Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest

By: R. Ely and Michael Kimmel
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Ely, R., and Michael Kimmel. "Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest." Journal of Social Issues 74, no. 3 (September 2018): 628–634.
  • 2017
  • Performance & Appearance

How Fabulous is too Fabulous? The Masculinity Dilemmas of Daring Dressers at Work

  • 1 Aug 2006
  • Conference Presentation

Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Masculine Identity

By: R. Ely and D. Meyerson
Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Identity
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Ely, R., and D. Meyerson. "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Masculine Identity." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 01, 2006.
  • 1 Aug 2007
  • Conference Presentation

Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Masculine Identity

By: R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson
Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Identity
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Ely, R., and D. E. Meyerson. "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Masculine Identity." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 01, 2007.
  • 1 Aug 2006
  • Conference Presentation

Unmasking Manly Men: How Organizations Can Redefine the Boundaries of Masculine Identity

By: R. Ely
Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Identity
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Ely, R. "Unmasking Manly Men: How Organizations Can Redefine the Boundaries of Masculine Identity." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 01, 2006. (Invited Panelist.)
  • 18 May 2023
  • Video

Katina Sawyer presents "A Qualitative Inquiry of Masculinity In the National Football League (NFL)"

  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William Kahn and Robin Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop a theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. companies, treating White men as the dominant group and Black people as an illustrative subordinate group. We theorize that this persistence is rooted... View Details
Keywords: Systems Psychodynamics; Organizational Inequality; Masculinity; Equality and Inequality; Race; Gender; Identity; Power and Influence
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Mobasseri, Sanaz, William Kahn, and Robin Ely. "Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-052, December 2021. (Revised September 2022.)
  • 30 Apr 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Aparna Joshi, Penn State Smeal College of Business

  • April 2013
  • Article

Gendered Races: Implications for Interracial Marriage, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation

By: Adam D. Galinsky, Erika V. Hall and Amy J.C. Cuddy
Six studies explored the overlap between racial and gender stereotypes and the consequences of this overlap for interracial dating, leadership selection, and athletic participation. Two initial studies, utilizing explicit and implicit measures, captured the stereotype... View Details
Keywords: Stereotypes; Attraction; Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Race; Attitudes; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Gender; United States
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Galinsky, Adam D., Erika V. Hall, and Amy J.C. Cuddy. "Gendered Races: Implications for Interracial Marriage, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation." Psychological Science 24, no. 4 (April 2013): 498–506.
  • December 2012
  • Article

Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending

By: Jill Avery
I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. Consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand Building; Brand Equity; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Gender; Identity; Customer Focus and Relationships; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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Avery, Jill. "Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending." International Journal of Research in Marketing 29, no. 4 (December 2012): 322–336. (Article was awarded the Marketing Science Institute's Best Paper Award.)

    Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending

    I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. The consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's... View Details
    • 27 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

    masculinity in the workplace. A resulting working paper, "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Male Identity," not only explores how organizations influence the way men enact their gender, but also looks at... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
    • 18 May 2023
    • Video

    Sanaz Mobasseri presents "A Systems-Psychodynamic Approach to Dismantling Racial Inequality in Organizations"

    • 21 Apr 2015
    • News

    Why Do We Get So Emotional About Brands?

    • 2017
    • Interviews

    Peter Glick

    • 2010
    • Article

    An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms

    By: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson
    This case study of two offshore oil platforms illustrates how an organizational initiative designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Gender; Emotions
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    Ely, Robin J., and Debra E. Meyerson. "An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms." Research in Organizational Behavior 30 (2010): 3–34.
    • February 2011 (Revised December 2012)
    • Case

    Porsche: The Cayenne Launch

    By: John Deighton, Jill Avery and Jeffrey Fear
    Can an online discussion forum supply insight into the evolution of brand meaning? In 2003 Porsche launched a sport utility vehicle, dividing Porsche purists from newcomers to the brand. Vocal members of online and offline Porsche communities ridiculed the Cayenne SUV... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Social and Collaborative Networks; Auto Industry
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    Deighton, John, Jill Avery, and Jeffrey Fear. "Porsche: The Cayenne Launch." Harvard Business School Case 511-068, February 2011. (Revised December 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership

    By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
    In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety; Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Practice; Gender; Business Processes; Energy Industry
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    Meyerson, D. E., R. Ely, and Laura Wernick. "Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership." In Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by D. Rhode and B. Kellerman. Warren Bennis book. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
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