Purpose

This paper aims to bring to the fore the importance of feminist epistemologies in the history of the organization of management studies since the 1980s by following various intellectual moves in the development of feminist theorizing as they cross over to organization studies, including their analytical possibilities for reclaiming historically the voices of major women scholars, especially in doctoral seminars. The paper narrates these epistemological activities by mobilizing and reconsidering from the past to the present, the notions of “unmuting,” “mutating” and “mutiny.” It ends in a reflection addressing the state of business schools at present and why the field of organization and management studies needs “mutiny” now.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper adopts a narrative approach in which the voices of its authors appear to be central as they consider and reconsider over time their understanding of “unmuting,” “mutation” and “mutiny” as notions with analytical potential. This approach is influenced by Foucault’s “history of the present” but with contingencies brought about by feminist interpretations. The application of these notions is demonstrated by reclaiming and clarifying the epistemological underpinning in the works of three major women scholars as included in a doctoral seminar: Mary Parker Follett, Edith Penrose and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These notions are further redeployed for their potential in institutional applications.

Findings

At present, the findings are discursive – if they can be called so, but the main motivation behind this writing is to go beyond discourse in the written sense, and to mobilize other activities, still in the realm of epistemological and scholarly work. These activities would legitimize actual interventions for changing business schools from their current situation as neoliberal entities, which mute understanding of major problems in the world, as well as the voices of most humans and non-humans paying for the foibles of neoliberalism.

Originality/value

The paper demonstrates the necessity of developing approaches for interventions in knowledge producing institutions increasingly limited by neoliberal premises in what can be said and done as legitimate knowledge. In doing this, the paper articulates the importance of keeping history alive to avoid the increasing “forgetfulness” neoliberalization brings about. The paper, in its present form, represents an active act of “remembering”.

中文翻译：

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静音，变异和叛变：关于女性主义认识论的工作

目的

本文旨在通过追踪女权理论在发展到组织研究中的各种智力动向，包括自从1980年代以来在管理研究的组织发展过程中所采取的各种智力举措，来突显女权主义认识论在管理学组织的历史中的重要性。从历史上看，主要是女性学者的声音，尤其是在博士研讨会上。本文通过动员和回顾过去到现在的“ unmuting”，“ muting”和“ mutiny”概念来叙述这些认识论活动。最后是对当前商学院状况的反思，以及为什么组织和管理研究领域现在需要“反叛”的反思。

设计/方法/方法

本文采用一种叙事方法，其作者的声音在他们考虑并逐渐重新考虑其对“具有分析潜力的概念”，“不变”，“变异”和“变异”的理解后显得很重要。这种方法受福柯的“当前历史”影响，但也受到女权主义解释带来的偶然性的影响。这些概念的应用通过在博士研讨会上包括的三位主要女学者的著作中重新认识和阐明了认识论基础，这些论点包括：玛丽·帕克·佛莱特，伊迪丝·彭罗斯和罗莎贝丝·莫斯·坎特。这些概念因其在机构应用中的潜力而被重新部署。

发现

目前，这些发现是具有争议性的-如果可以这样称呼，那么，本文的主要动机是超越书面意义上的论述，并动员其他活动，仍然处于认识论和学术工作的领域。这些活动将使改变商业学校作为其新自由主义实体的现状的合法干预合法化，这使人们对世界上主要问题的理解以及大多数为新自由主义的缺点付出代价的人和非人的声音无所作为。

创意/价值

本文证明了发展对知识生产机构进行干预的方法的必要性，这种干预越来越受到新自由主义前提的限制，而这种干预可以说和做为合法知识。在此过程中，本文阐明了保持历史活泼的重要性，以避免新自由化带来的日益增加的“健忘”。该文件以目前的形式代表着一种积极的“记住”行为。