
Kristin S Williams
Visiting Researcher
I investigate neglected historical figures, novel theoretical approaches, alternative ways of organizing, and overlooked innovative management strategies and practices, to broaden the field and build a more inclusive business history.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
kristin.williams@uef.fi
I am a Visiting Researcher with the Innovation Management research team at the UEF Business School, University of Eastern Finland. I am also the Historian in Residence with the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Canada. I bring to various collaborative research projects a gender lens and a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. I am a critical management studies scholar and I identify as a polemical feminist engaged in critical historiography through activist writing and narrative methods. Much of my work has focused on uncovering neglected female figures in management and organizational studies and management history. I completed my PhD studies at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Canada.
Research groups
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Innovation Management (INNO) 24.10.2017 -
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NOVA Neuro-impact and innovation research team 01.02.2019 -
Projects
Publications
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Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women's business history and the opportunity for radical change
Mills, Albert J; Williams, Kristin S. Business history [Online ahead of print 29 Mar 2021]: 1 - 16. 2021 -
Introducing ficto-feminism: a non-fiction, fictitious conversation with Hallie Flanagan, director of the Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939)
Williams, KS. Qualitative research journal 21 3: 244-257. 2021 -
Feminist critical historiography: undoing history - a conceptual model
Williams, Kristin S / Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History. 2020. 2020 -
Finding Viola: the untrue, true story of a groundbreaking female African Nova Scotian entrepreneur
Williams, Kristin S. Culture and organization 2021; 27 5: 365-385. 2020 -
Discursive Writing, Representations of the Past and Gender: Writing Frances Perkins out of Management and Organizational Studies
Williams, Kristin S; Mills, Albert J / Beyond Rationality in Organization and Management. 2019. 2019 -
Unsociable speech: Critical discourses on cyber incivility from inside the non-profit sector in Canada
Williams, Kristin S. Qualitative research in organizations and management 15 3: 349-369. 2019 -
The problem with women: a feminist interrogation of management textbooks
Williams, Kristin S; Mills, Albert J. Management and organizational history 14 2: 148-166. 2019 -
Hallie Flanagan and the federal theater project: a critical undoing of management history
Williams, Kristin S; Mills, Albert J. Journal of management history 24 3: 282-299. 2018 -
Frances Perkins: Gender, context, and history in the neglect of a management theorist
Williams Kristin S, Mills Albert J. Journal of management history 23 1: 32-50. 2017