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Feminist activism to create change in a male dominated industry: The alta mentoring platform (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Durbin, S., Warren, S., & Lopes, A. (2023, September). Feminist activism to create change in a male dominated industry: The alta mentoring platform. Paper presented at European Sociological Association mid-term conference (RN14), the Architect, Bristol, UK

The alta mentoring platform, launched within the aviation and aerospace industry in 2019, is the outcome of a joint knowledge exchange project between academics and industry and was designed to meet the mentoring needs of women in this male dominated... Read More about Feminist activism to create change in a male dominated industry: The alta mentoring platform.

In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Tomlinson, J., Durbin, S., Warren, S., & Daly, J. (2023, July). In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK. Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium: Organising for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination, Cagliari University, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

The challenges of greater wellbeing, work-life reconciliation and gender balance in senior management and executive careers are well established. Working hours are critical to career advancement and women, more so than men, seek a reduction in hours... Read More about In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK.

How to expand the role of employers in firm networks?: Lessons from collective bargaining with the property of outlet malls in Italy (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasparri, S. (2022). How to expand the role of employers in firm networks?: Lessons from collective bargaining with the property of outlet malls in Italy. In B. Brandl, B. Larsson, A. Lehr, & O. Molina (Eds.), Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory (195-216). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125730-14

This chapter examines the role employers play in firm networks and with which implications for the management of the employment relationship. It acknowledges the main challenge as the extent to which the reconfiguration of business activities along f... Read More about How to expand the role of employers in firm networks?: Lessons from collective bargaining with the property of outlet malls in Italy.