Chapter 12 Innovating is not of the spirit world – depicting a female inventor’s unique path with materiality-friendly gender concepts
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Publication Date:
30 Sep 2016
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229–251
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Business 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478132.00021
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By revisiting specific conceptual tools, the chapter offers a novel understanding of the innovation and invention processes that take place in gendered organizations. Through a rich and detailed empirical case study the authors analyse two established theoretical concepts in gender studies, ‘tokenism’ and ‘intersectionality’, and add important new theoretical dimensions to them. The chapter argues for contextualized knowledge when inventing and innovations are being studied. Through an empirical case narrative the authors show how invention and innovation processes intersect with a gendered and tokenist career path.

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Cover Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation
Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation
Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Sep 2016
Print ISBN:
9781783478118
eISBN:
9781783478132
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478132
Page Count:
c 296
Collections:
Business 2016
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