Article
Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history
Dean H, Perriton L, Taylor S & Yeager M (2023) Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history. Business History. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2125957
Professor
Management, Work and Organisation University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Background
I was a practising HRD consultant working in the financial services industry prior to gaining my PhD and switching to a career in higher education. My main area of teaching and research interest is learning and development, specifically critical approaches to reflective practice and management education. I also research the history of women in management and business, and the different approaches they took to their own training as managers. Professional Activities Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Member of the editorial board of Management Learning Member of the editorial board of HRDI Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology HRM and HRD consultant
The entrepreneurs who made Glasgow: the city and its businesses 1861-1901"
The Leverhulme Trust
Co-investigator on the Leverhulme Trust grant RPG-2020-382
Entrepreneurs are considered the engine of growth within an economy. But despite the literature that asserts that historic growth in cities was entrepreneurship-led, we lack sufficient research in city specific contexts and mechanisms. We view the history of business i.e. what businesses existed, their location, and who ran them, as an essential contribution to the debate about the historical transformation of economies. Focusing on Glasgow, we will take factors that are key to understanding economic development today and apply them to Glasgow's historical data to build a more holistic understanding of how migration, gender, age, and infrastructure shaped entrepreneurial activity.
My research explores the many ways in which women develop, defend, and express managerial competence. My interest in women’s managerial competence has produced several historical studies of women’s management in early philanthropic organisations, inter-war professional groups, and the foundation of women only financial organisations and institutions that allow women to independently manage their finances. I have also investigated the development and defence of competence by looking at gender and diversity training and gender in the management education curriculum. This is in addition to my work on how feminism and management education interact pedagogically within Critical Management Education approaches. My current research projects focus on the impact of identity politics on teaching diversity to management students, and the number and distribution of women's businesses in 19th century Glasgow.
Awards and Prizes Winner of the SAGE Best Leadership Paper in Management History, Academy of Management, Philadelphia August (2014) Recipient of a European Savings Bank Group Academic Prize for my work on depositor behaviour in English savings banks in the 19th Century (2012) Winner of the Best Paper award in Gender and Management, British Academy of Management, St Andrews (2004) Winner of the Best Paper award in Human Resources/Gender and Management, Academy of Management, Toronto August (2000)
Article
Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history
Dean H, Perriton L, Taylor S & Yeager M (2023) Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history. Business History. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2125957
Article
Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism
Aston J, Barker H, Durepos G, Garrett-Scott S, Hudson PJ, Kwolek-Folland A, Dean H, Perriton L, Taylor S & Yeager M (2022) Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism. Business History. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2123470
Article
The problematic persistence of gender reflexivity in women's leadership development
Perriton L (2022) The problematic persistence of gender reflexivity in women's leadership development. Journal of Management Development, 41 (5), pp. 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-03-2022-0053
Editorial
Guest Editorial - Historical Perspectives
Perriton L (2022) Guest Editorial - Historical Perspectives. Human Resource Development Review, 21 (2), pp. 152-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/15344843221088145
Article
Perriton L, Elliott C & Humbert AL (2022) Where is the visible commitment to gender in the advertised content of UK management degree programmes?. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 37 (1), pp. 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-01-2021-0015
Article
Getting together, living together, thinking together: Management Development at Tata Sons 1940-1960
Masrani S, Perriton L & McKinlay A (2021) Getting together, living together, thinking together: Management Development at Tata Sons 1940-1960. Business History, 63 (1), pp. 127-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1458840
Article
For all intents and purposes: Depositor behaviour and strategy in a London savings bank
Perriton L & Henderson S (2020) For all intents and purposes: Depositor behaviour and strategy in a London savings bank. Enterprise and Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.48
Article
Critical Management Education in Challenging Times
Perriton L & Reynolds M (2018) Critical Management Education in Challenging Times. Management Learning, 49 (5), pp. 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618795090
Article
Perriton L (2017) The parochial realm, social enterprise and gender: The work of Catharine Cappe and Faith Gray and others in York, 1780-1820. Business History, 59 (2), pp. 202-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2016.1175438
Book Chapter
Critical voices in management education in the UK
Perriton L & Singh A (2016) Critical voices in management education in the UK. In: Staeyert C, Beyes T & Parker M (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting. Abigndon, UK: Routledge, pp. 77-90. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Reinventing-Management-Education/Steyaert-Beyes-Parker/p/book/9780415727372
Book Chapter
Reflecting on the conceptual (and practical) difficulties of reflection
Perriton L (2015) Reflecting on the conceptual (and practical) difficulties of reflection. In: Callahan J, Stewart J, Rigg C, Sambrook S & Trehan K (eds.) Realising Critical HRD: Stories of Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting Critical Practice. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 14-36. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/realising-critical-hrd
Article
Working-Class Households and Savings in England, 1850-1880
Perriton L & Maltby J (2015) Working-Class Households and Savings in England, 1850-1880. Enterprise and Society, 16 (2), pp. 413-445. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2014.34
Book Chapter
'Here be dragons': Approaching difficult group issues in networked learning
Perriton L & Reynolds M (2014) 'Here be dragons': Approaching difficult group issues in networked learning. In: Hodgson V, McConnell M, de Laat M & Ryberg T (eds.) The Design, Experience and Practice of Network Learning. Research in Networked Learning. New York: Springer, pp. 109-126. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-01940-6_6
Article
The (re)negotiation of the critical warrant in critical management education: a research agenda
Perriton L (2014) The (re)negotiation of the critical warrant in critical management education: a research agenda. Human Resource Development International, 17 (4), pp. 384-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2014.928146
Article
Positioning theory and practice question(s) within the field of management learning
Perriton L & Hodgson V (2013) Positioning theory and practice question(s) within the field of management learning. Management Learning, 44 (2), pp. 144-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507612443939
Article
Perriton L & Maltby J (2012) Savings banks in England and Wales in the nineteenth century: a new insight into individual saving and spending. Business Archives, (105), pp. 47-64. http://public.bacs.daisy.websds.net/PDFFiles/Articles/105047.pdf
Working Paper
Depositor trends in the Limehouse Savings Bank, London, 1830-1876
Perriton L (2012) Depositor trends in the Limehouse Savings Bank, London, 1830-1876. http://www.savings-banks.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/perriton.pdf
Article
Perriton L (2009) The Education of Women for Citizenship: the National Federation of Women's Institutes and the British Federation of Business and Professional Women 1930-1959. Gender and Education, 21 (1), pp. 81-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540250802213156
Article
"We Don’t Want Complaining Women!" A Critical Analysis of the Business Case for Diversity
Perriton L (2009) "We Don’t Want Complaining Women!" A Critical Analysis of the Business Case for Diversity. Management Communication Quarterly, 23 (2), pp. 218-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318909343122
Article
A Reflection on the Significance of Numbers
Perriton L (2009) A Reflection on the Significance of Numbers. Management Learning, 40 (4), pp. 393-399. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507609335849
Article
Forgotten feminists: The Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969
Perriton L (2007) Forgotten feminists: The Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969. Women's History Review, 16 (1), pp. 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020601049736
Article
The Personal Becomes Polemical? The Problematic Second Generation of Facilitative Practice
Perriton L (2007) The Personal Becomes Polemical? The Problematic Second Generation of Facilitative Practice. Management Learning, 38 (2), pp. 155-171. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507607075773
Article
Really useful knowledge? Critical Management Education in the UK and US
Perriton L (2007) Really useful knowledge? Critical Management Education in the UK and US. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 23 (1), pp. 66-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2006.11.001
Article
Does woman + a network = career progression?
Perriton L (2006) Does woman + a network = career progression?. Leadership, 2 (1), pp. 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715006060655
Book Chapter
Sense or Sensibility? A reflection on virtue and ‘emotional’ HRD interventions
Perriton L (2005) Sense or Sensibility? A reflection on virtue and ‘emotional’ HRD interventions. In: Elliott C & Turnbull S (eds.) Critical thinking in Human Resource Development. Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development, 12. London: Routledge, pp. 175-188. https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415487993
Article
The political economy of networked learning communities in higher education
Greener I & Perriton L (2005) The political economy of networked learning communities in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 30 (1), pp. 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/0307507052000307803
Article
Perriton L, Hodgson V & Reynolds M (2005) Editorial. Studies in Higher Education, 30 (1), pp. 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/0307507052000307759
Book Chapter
Perriton L (2004) A reflection of what exactly? Questioning the use of 'critical reflection' in Management Education Contexts. In: Vince R & Reynolds M (eds.) Organizing Reflection. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 126-141. https://www.routledge.com/products/9780754637479
Article
Critical Management Education: From Pedagogy of Possibility to Pedagogy of Refusal?
Perriton L & Reynolds M (2004) Critical Management Education: From Pedagogy of Possibility to Pedagogy of Refusal?. Management Learning, 35 (1), pp. 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507604041165
Article
Sleeping with the enemy? Exploiting the textual turn in management research
Perriton L (2001) Sleeping with the enemy? Exploiting the textual turn in management research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 4 (1), pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645570117299
Article
Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis
Perriton L (2000) Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis. Sociological Research Online, 5 (3). http://www.socresonline.org.uk/5/3/perriton.html
Article
Verandah Discourses: Critical Management Education in Organizations
Perriton L (2000) Verandah Discourses: Critical Management Education in Organizations. British Journal of Management, 11 (3), pp. 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.00163
Article
The Provocative and Evocative Gaze upon Women in Management Development
Perriton L (1999) The Provocative and Evocative Gaze upon Women in Management Development. Gender and Education, 11 (3), pp. 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540259920591
Training and Development and HRM subject specialist
Shortlisted for a PGT Rate Award for curriculum innovation (University of Stirling, 2019) Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award (University of York, 2012)