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Maureen A. Scully
Assistant Professor in Management
617 287 7864
maureen.scully@umb.edu

 


EducationMaureen Scully
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Stanford University
A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges

Areas of Expertise
Organizational Change Efforts, Grassroots Employee Initiatives, Beliefs about Inequality and Meritocracy, Dimensions of Diversity at Work, Labor and Management Joint Efforts

Background
Faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management, Research Faculty at the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management, Faculty Research Consultant for the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program

Courses Taught
Organizational Processes, Business and Society, Human Resource Management, Diversity, Organization Theory

Research Interests
How Americans make sense of inequality in the workplace, New discourses to address and remedy inequality, Forms of voice at work

Selected Publications
Levy, D. and Scully, M. (2007) “The institutional entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The strategic face of power in contested fields.”  Organization Studies, 28(7):971-991.

Lautsch, B. and Scully, M. (2007) “Restructuring time: Implications of work-hours reductions for the working class.”  Human Relations, 60(5):719-743
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Bell, E. J., Meyerson, D. E, Nkomo, S., and Scully M.(2003) “Interpreting silence and voice in the workplace: A conversation about tempered radicalism among black and white women researchers,” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 39(4):381-414.

Scully, M., (2002) “Confronting errors in the meritocracy,” Organization, 9(3):396-401.

Scully, M., and Segal, A., (2002) “Passion with an umbrella: Grassroots activists in the workplace,” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 19:125-168.

Creed, W. E. D., Scully M., and Austin, J. R., (2002) “Clothes make the person? The tailoring of legitimating accounts and the social construction of identity,” Organization Science, 13(5):475-496.

Creed, W. E. D., and Scully M. (2000) “Songs of ourselves: Employees’ deployment of social identity in everyday workplace encounters,” Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(4):391-412.

Scully, M., and Meyerson, D., (1995) “Tempered radicalism and the politics of ambivalence and
Change,” Organization Science, 6(5):585-600.

Professional Activities
Editorial board,Organization Science

Honors
Zuckerberg Fellow, UMass Boston, 2006-07
Betty Diener Teaching Award, Graduate program, UMass Boston, 2006
“Breaking the Frame” article award, Journal of Management Inquiry, 2000

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