Research Handbook on Women in International Management

Edited by Kate Hutchings, Professor of Human Resource Management, Department of Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and Snejina Michailova, Professor of International Business, Department of Management and International Business, University of Auckland Business School, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

‘Research Handbook on Women in International Management is a welcome addition to the literature on international management, and a must-read for any scholar, from any country, seeking to develop theory and/or research in this field. The book is remarkable for its diversity, covering past, present and future, every region of the world, and many different types of international experience, and family circumstance. Thorough and thought-provoking.’- Kerr Inkson, The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand and co-author, with Yvonne McNulty, of Managing Expatriates

• Contents:ForewordPART I: REVIEWING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY1. Women in International Management: Reviewing Past Trends and Identifying Emerging and Future IssuesKate Hutchings and Snejina Michailova2. Women Expatriates: A Research HistorySusan Shortland PART II: ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES FOR WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT3. Female Frequent Flyers: How Women Traveling Internationally Handle their Work/life BalanceIris Fischlmayr and Iris Kollinger-Santer 4. Women Gen X Global Managers Striving for Work/life BalancePamela Lirio5. Career and Family Expectations of Women in International Management: A View Across GenerationsMiriam Moeller, Nancy Napier and Rebekah McGourtyPART III: WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN DIVERSE REGIONS OF THE GLOBE6. Global Platforms, Local Politics: Arab Women in Transnational OrganizationsLeila DeVriese7. Women Expatriates from East AsiaFang Lee Cooke 8. Where are the Voices from South America? Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean Women in International ManagementEdelweiss Harrison9. Differences in Working Hours of European High Status Men and Women: Causes and ConsequencesMarc Cowling and Linda Stroh10. Hard Choices: Hungarian Female Managers AbroadBeata Nagy and Henriett PrimeczPART IV: WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT – ISSUES MORE RECENTLY EXPLORED IN THE LITERATURE11. Self-initiated Expatriation through a Gendered LensNoeleen Doherty and Kaye Thorn12. Self-initiated Expatriation by Women: Does it Help to Overcome the Glass Ceiling?Phyllis Tharenou13. Women as Female Breadwinners in Non-traditional Expatriate Families: Status-reversal Marriages, Single Parents, Split Families, and Lesbian PartnershipsYvonne McNulty 14. They Always Look at You a Bit Oddly: Women Developing Career Capital through International Mobility in the Mining IndustryJulia Richardson, Steve McKenna and Carolyn DickiePART V: RESEARCHING WOMEN AND WOMEN AS RESEARCHERS15. Representation as Scholars and Representing the Researched: The Gendered Position of UK and Australian Women Academics Researching Women in Management InternationallyBeverly Metcalfe and Kate Hutchings16. Reducing the Academic Gender Gap? Institutional Support for Women’s University Careers in the Liberal StatesMaureen Baker 17. No Gender, Please, We’re International Management Scholars!Janne Tienari