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Genevieve Shanahan
(she/her)
PhD, FHEA
Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
In my research I work with alternative organizations – like social movements, cooperatives, and social enterprises – to figure out how to make a more just and sustainable society. In particular, we explore together how technology can be used to open up new possibilities for democracy. My teaching similarly addresses the role of organizations generally in fostering social justice and sustainability.
Publication
2024
- Shanahan, G., Jaumier, S., Daudigeos, T. and Ouahab, A. 2024. Why reinvent the wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations. Organization Studies 45(6), pp. 855-879. (10.1177/01708406241244522)
- Shanahan, G. 2024. Two routes to degeneration, two routes to utopia: The impure critical performativity of alternative organizing. Organization (10.1177/13505084231223639)
2023
- Shanahan, G. 2023. ‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies. Human Relations 76(10), pp. 1661-1686. (10.1177/00187267221112821)
- Shanahan, G. 2023. Management's counter-history: The neglected past and potential futures of solidarity-based organizing [Book Review]. Organization (10.1177/13505084231207987)
- Shanahan, G. 2023. Rights-based ethics. In: Nair, L. B. ed. SAGE Business Foundations. SAGE, (10.4135/9781071905012)
2021
- Shanahan, G. and Smith, M. 2021. Fair's fair: psychological contracts and power in platform work. International Journal of Human Resource Management 32(19), pp. 4078-4109. (10.1080/09585192.2020.1867615)
2020
- Stewart, P., Shanahan, G. and Smith, M. 2020. Individualism and collectivism at work in an era of deindustrialization: work narratives of food delivery couriers in the platform economy.. Frontiers in Sociology 5, article number: 49. (10.3389/fsoc.2020.00049)
- Peticca-Harris, A., Navazhylava, K. and Shanahan, G. 2020. A juggly mummys life history of teaching yoga: embodied postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality.. In: Bell, E. et al. eds. Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 67-86., (10.4337/9781788973304.00009)
- Gauthier, C., Shanahan, G., Daudigeos, T., Ranville, A. and Dey, P. 2020. Tackling economic exclusion through social business models: a typology.. International Review of Applied Economics 34(5), pp. 588-605. (10.1080/02692171.2019.1707785)
2019
- Shanahan, G., Smith, M. and Srinivasan, P. 2019. Is a basic income feasible in Europe?. In: Delsen, L. ed. Empirical Research on an Unconditional Basic Income in Europe. Springer, pp. 61-80.
Articles
- Shanahan, G., Jaumier, S., Daudigeos, T. and Ouahab, A. 2024. Why reinvent the wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations. Organization Studies 45(6), pp. 855-879. (10.1177/01708406241244522)
- Shanahan, G. 2024. Two routes to degeneration, two routes to utopia: The impure critical performativity of alternative organizing. Organization (10.1177/13505084231223639)
- Shanahan, G. 2023. ‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies. Human Relations 76(10), pp. 1661-1686. (10.1177/00187267221112821)
- Shanahan, G. 2023. Management's counter-history: The neglected past and potential futures of solidarity-based organizing [Book Review]. Organization (10.1177/13505084231207987)
- Shanahan, G. and Smith, M. 2021. Fair's fair: psychological contracts and power in platform work. International Journal of Human Resource Management 32(19), pp. 4078-4109. (10.1080/09585192.2020.1867615)
- Stewart, P., Shanahan, G. and Smith, M. 2020. Individualism and collectivism at work in an era of deindustrialization: work narratives of food delivery couriers in the platform economy.. Frontiers in Sociology 5, article number: 49. (10.3389/fsoc.2020.00049)
- Gauthier, C., Shanahan, G., Daudigeos, T., Ranville, A. and Dey, P. 2020. Tackling economic exclusion through social business models: a typology.. International Review of Applied Economics 34(5), pp. 588-605. (10.1080/02692171.2019.1707785)
Book sections
- Shanahan, G. 2023. Rights-based ethics. In: Nair, L. B. ed. SAGE Business Foundations. SAGE, (10.4135/9781071905012)
- Peticca-Harris, A., Navazhylava, K. and Shanahan, G. 2020. A juggly mummys life history of teaching yoga: embodied postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality.. In: Bell, E. et al. eds. Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 67-86., (10.4337/9781788973304.00009)
- Shanahan, G., Smith, M. and Srinivasan, P. 2019. Is a basic income feasible in Europe?. In: Delsen, L. ed. Empirical Research on an Unconditional Basic Income in Europe. Springer, pp. 61-80.
Research
My research primarily focuses on alternative organizations - that is, organizations that are opposed to the injustices of social configurations reproduced by mainstream organizations, and that aim to change these configurations for the better. In my PhD dissertation, I examined how people can organize to create positive social change – specifically sustainable food systems – by harnessing the power of technology while resisting the technocratic threat to organizational democracy that often accompanies such tools.
I am currently working on a research impact project Democratic Technology for Cooperatives under the auspices of the Cardiff Business School Public Value Engagement Fellowship Scheme. This project involves surveying platform and digital cooperatives across the UK to understand how they make decisions democratically, particularly exploring their use technology tools for this purpose. On this basis, we are co-developing a user-friendly, interactive digital resource to summarize existing practices and guide cooperatives on suitable models for democratic organizing.
Teaching
At Cardiff Business School I teach Managing in Multicultural Organisations and Managing Nature.
In the past, I have taught Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Responsible Leadership and Management, and Business Ethics to undergraduate, masters and MBA students.
Biography
Genevieve is a Lecturer in Management, Employment & Organisation at Cardiff Business School. She received her PhD in Organization Studies from Grenoble Ecole de Management in 2022. Her work addresses how alternative organizations can contribute to the shift to a more just and sustainable society. Her research has been published in Human Relations, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Frontiers in Sociology, and the International Review of Applied Economics.
Honours and awards
- 2022 Co-Winner of the Best Critical Dissertation award, Critical Management Studies division, Academy of Management
Academic positions
- 2022 - present: Lecturer, Cardiff Business School
- 2017-2022: Research and Teaching Assistant, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- Sustainability transitions
- Organizational democracy
- Alternative organizations
Contact Details
+44 29208 76855
Aberconway Building, Room C52, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- Alternative organisations
- Organisational democracy
- Climate justice
- Sustainability
- Political economy and social change
