Prof. Dr. Brigitte Liebig is full professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland. Prof. (em.) Dr. Mechtild Oechsle is full professor in the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

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• Table of Contents: Introduction - Fathers in work organizations - Brigitte Liebig & Mechtild Oechsle; 2. Fathers in Organizations: Life Conduct, Strategies and Capabilities - Work organizations and fathers' everyday life conduct: constraints and capabilities - Annette von Alemann, Sandra Beaufays & Mechtild Oechsle; Devoted workers, breadwinning fathers: the case of executive men in the United States - Mary Blair-Loy & Stacy J. Williams; Fathers' parental leave and later work - family division in Norwegian elite professions - Sigtona Halrynjo & Selma Therese Lyng; Fathers in parental leave. Challenges and potentials in work organizations - Benjamin Neumann & Michael Meuser; 3. Fathers in Organizations: Cultures, Rationalities and Management - Ambivalent benevolence: The instrumental rationality of father-friendly policies in Swiss organizations - Brigitte Liebig & Christian Kron; Fatherhood in transition: From standard to precarious archetypes in Italian contemporary work organizations - Annalisa Murgia & Barbara Poggio; Of ikumen and ikuboss: An inquiry into Japan's new fathers as consumers, employees and managers - Christoph Schimkowsky & Florian Kohlbacher; 4. Policies and Politics of Fatherhood - Constructing male employees as carers through the Norwegian fathers' quota - Elin Kvande & Berit Brandth; The 'daddy months' in the German fatherhood regime - a step towards an equal share of work and care? - Johanna Possinger; Reconciliation - the different political goals of organizations, governments and lobbies for fathers and children in Germany - Stephan Hoyng; 5. Outlook - Research on work and family: some issues and challenges - Suzan Lewis & Bianca Stumbitz