Hugo Gaggiotti's Outputs (12)

Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia (2025)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to present an exploration of the intersection of gender, career and reproductive health within the context of Early Career Women Academics (ECA) experiencing neoliberal organizational practices in universities. It conside... Read More about Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia.

Strategic organizational euthanasia: The cost of dying strategically in project management (2025)
Journal Article

This paper aims to explore the complex experience of “deadlines” in project management, highlighting how they signify both project completion and the initiation of new ones, creating repetitive cycles of dying and living. It examines emotional respon... Read More about Strategic organizational euthanasia: The cost of dying strategically in project management.

Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women (2025)
Book Chapter

Vulnerability has become a focal point of ethical, philosophical, social, and environmental debates, with its usage extending across various fields of inquiry to describe both human and non-humans. Often, "vulnerable" is used to refer to others —whet... Read More about Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter

The book you are about to read focuses on examining women’s organizational vulnerability both conceptually and empirically, contributing to theory, methods, and cross-disciplinary knowledge. Understanding “vulnerability” is conceptually rich and comp... Read More about Introduction.

Women, Organizations and Vulnerability: Global Archetypes (2025)
Book

Why are women, despite being resilient, adaptable, and persistent, often constructed and perceived as weak and vulnerable? Women’s vulnerability is not a neutral concept but is organizationally defined and understood. Organizations are discursive spa... Read More about Women, Organizations and Vulnerability: Global Archetypes.

Women, ageing and wellbeing at work: Exploring vulnerabilities across the life course (2025)
Book Chapter

The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye (2025)
Book Chapter

Vulnerability and exclusion have been explored from a career lens, with concepts such as the glass ceiling (Cotter et al., 2001), glass chains (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2020), glass cliffs (Ryan and Haslam, 2007), sticky floors (Booth et al., 2003), and... Read More about The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye.

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
Book Chapter

Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement (2024)
Book

The book reflects on ways of transcending Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) by establishing a dialogue between the professional experience of the authors and experts from academia and practitioners from financial services and executive search.... Read More about Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement.

Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts (2024)
Book

Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pa... Read More about Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts.

Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter deploys the concept of translation as a “metaphor of metaphor” from which to learn. Thus, the authors explore the relationship between universals and particulars with respect to organizational metaphors and address the contradiction of t... Read More about Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular.

RBWM World Cafe Final Evaluation Report (2023)
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