Gender, Work and Organization in the Balkans: Contemporary Challenges, Comparative Insights, and Theory-Building

Éditeurs invités

• Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School
• Amitabh Anand, Excelia Business School
• Ivona Hideg, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Sanja Pekovic, University of Montenegro
• Ivana Bulog, University of Split
• Azra Bičo, International University of Sarajevo
• Simona Kukovič, School of Advanced Social Studies & University of Ljubljana

Synthèse

The Western Balkans present a distinctive context for studying gender and work, combining labour-market gender gaps, high female inactivity, and informality with legacies of conflict and complex state-society relations. Women have played crucial roles in post-conflict recovery and civil society development, but existing global organizational theories inadequately capture these experiences and contributions.

This special issue seeks rigorous, comparative research that documents contemporary gendered labour dynamics in the region, theorizes how regional specificities—such as post-socialist transition, conflict legacies, and EU integration pressures—shape organizational practices and careers, and develops conceptual contributions relevant to global gender and organization scholarship. The issue particularly welcomes papers evaluating policy effectiveness and linking local practices to international regimes.

Thèmes proposés

• Gendered labour markets, informality, care work, and self-employment in the Balkans
• Gender pay inequality and organizational stratification
• Gendered leadership, management, and corporate governance
• Policy, Europeanization, and institutional change affecting gender equality
• Flexible work, gig economy, and new forms of gendered work
• Gender norms, education, and reproduction of inequality
• Patriarchy, religion, and gendered organizational cultures
• Urbanization, space, and gendered work practices