It is our pleasure to OPEN the submission window for Gender, Work & Organization 2025 Conference!

Conference Theme:

World in Crisis and Future of Work: Gender, Work and Organization and Bodies on the Move

Please find the 29 different Stream Briefs, Guidelines, Key dates and Submission portal on this website: https://event.fourwaves.com/gwo2025/pages 

Deadline to submit the abstract to January 25th, 2025, at 23:30 (CET).

End of peer review period: mid-February, 2025

Full paper submission: by 1st of June, 2025

Conference dates: July 21-23, 2025

The Stream Convenor and the Conference Organising Committee are looking forward to receiving your Abstracts.

Wiley is pleased to announce that starting January 2024, Prof. Natalia Vershinina, Prof. Bettina Bastian, and Prof. Bronwyn Wood, will be the Co-Editors-in-Chief of Gender, Work & Organization.

The new Co-Editors-in-Chief are delighted to build on the incredible work undertaken by the previous editors and the extended editorial team. Natalia, Bettina, and Bronwyn have ambitious plans to further invigorate the scholarship in GWO and bring old and new academics into this field.

Please click here to learn more about the new Co-Editors-in-Chief.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing Co-Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Alison Pullen and Prof. Banu Ozkazan-Pan for their leadership and dedication to the journal. After 7 years in the role, Alison stepped down as Co-EIC at the end of September 2023, following completion of an extended term, and Banu completed her 5-year term in December 2023. Along with her Co-Editors, Alison took the GWO Conference to venues around the world, including Brazil, Bogota, and South Africa. Banu was instrumental in developing the US base, and organised a seminar at Brown during COVID which taught us so much about our transnational feminist interdisciplinarity. Their efforts in building and supporting the GWO community have enabled increased participation in the journal and a broader range of opportunities for engagement.

We are grateful for all of Alison’s and Banu’s contributions to GWO. Please join us in wishing them all the best in their future endeavours.

Barbara Czarniawska (02.12.1948 - 07.04.2024), an esteemed Professor Emerita at Gothenburg Research Institute at the School of Business, Economics and Law has left an enduring legacy through her ground-breaking contributions to organizational theory. Renowned for her interdisciplinary approach, methodological pluralism, and critical perspectives, Barbara challenged conventional wisdom and explored new avenues of inquiry giving insights into feminist and processual study of organizations. Her research, spanning topics from complex organizations, sensemaking and symbolism, narratives and narratology, production of news and integration of migrants as well as gender issues, has reshaped scholarly discourse and inspired many scholars. Barbara Czarniawska revolutionized organizational theory by integrating it with anthropology, ethnology, sociology, narratology, and philosophy, introducing "actor-network theory" and pioneering methods like "shadowing" in fieldwork. She consistently addressed gender-related topics, including gender as social practice, gender equality norms, gender construction in organizations, studying gender inequality in organizations, gender and power dynamics, negotiating gender at work, and using fiction to study gender discrimination. She also explored the online construction of corporate and gender images. She has been part of the GWO community as a member of Editorial Review Board since 2003 and shaped careers of so many scholars. While her passing is mourned by so many that have met her personally and were inspired by her work, her legacy of intellectual curiosity and compassion will continue to motivate generations to come.