Organization Management Journal
Abstract
As a graduate student attempting to integrate feminist principles into my academic endeavors, I eagerly entered the research field to examine how women business owners who feel a conflict between feminism and capitalism enact their everyday lives. I chose participant observation, a common methodology in feminist research, with the aim of getting “inside” these women’s lives to better understand their experiences. However, as the fieldwork proceeded, my focus shifted to examining the space in which the realities of the feminist organizational researcher and of the feminist business owner encounter one another. This paper reflects upon how we made sense of our practices through complex interactions that blurred the binary between subject/object and researcher/researched. By acknowledging the co-constitution of the research process, scholars of organizational studies can begin to rethink the relationship between the “researcher” and the “researched” and ask questions about the power dynamics inherent to fieldwork.
Recommended Citation
Bourne, Kristina A.
(2007)
"Encountering One Another:
Feminist Relationships in Organizational Research,"
Organization Management Journal: Vol. 4:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj/vol4/iss2/3