Dr Scott Taylor

Dr Scott Taylor

Department of Management
Professor of Leadership & Organisation Studies

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Scott Taylor has worked at Open, Essex, Exeter, and Loughborough universities. He worked at Birmingham from 2002-07, then rejoined in 2013. He has visited and taught at the universities of Auckland, Delhi, GFV-EAESP Sao Paolo, Jeddah, Melbourne and Lapland. Scott is currently a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, and an editorial board member for Academy of Management Learning & Education, Leadership, and Organization.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Management), Manchester Metropolitan University
  • MA (Human Resource Management), University of Greater Manchester
  • MA (Arts), University of Glasgow

Biography

Scott’s research currently focuses on gender at work, especially men, masculinities, and misogyny.

Postgraduate supervision

• Andrew Maile, virtues and wisdom in leadership education
• Danielle Dorn, women working in technology
• Dylan Dunnett, gender in co-operatives
• Josephine Hengtswerth, gender based violence on university campuses

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Afiouni, F, Boersma, M, Karam, CM, Miska, C, Shadnam, M, Taylor, S & van Gils, S 2026, 'Speaking Across Silences: Academic Freedom, Care, and Responsibility', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 205, no. 1, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06297-6

Spence, LJ & Taylor, S 2024, 'Feminist Corporate Social Responsibility: Reframing CSR as a Critical Force for Good', British Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12798

Mccarthy, L & Taylor, S 2024, 'Misogyny and Organization Studies', Organization Studies, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 457-473. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231213964

Aston, J, Barker, H, Durepos, G, Garrett-Scott, S, Hudson, PJ, Kwolek-Folland, A, Dean, H, Perriton, L, Taylor, S & Yeager, M 2024, 'Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism', Business History, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2123470

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

Burrell, G, Hyman, MR, Michaelson, C, Nelson, JA, Taylor, S & West, A 2022, 'The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 180, no. 3, pp. 917-940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05243-6

Steinþórsdóttir, FS, Carmichael, F & Taylor, S 2021, 'Gendered workload allocation in universities: a feminist analysis of practices and possibilities in a European University', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1859-1875. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12709

McCarthy, L, Soundararajan, V & Taylor, S 2021, 'The hegemony of men in global value chains: why it matters for labour governance', Human Relations, vol. 74, no. 12, pp. 2051-2074. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720950816

Prasad, A, Centeno, A, Rhodes, C, Nisar, MA, Taylor, S, Tienari, J & Alakavuklar, ON 2021, 'What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism?', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1579-1599. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12573, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12573

Bell, E, Meriläinen, S, Taylor, S & Tienari, J 2020, 'Dangerous knowledge: the political, personal, and epistemological promise of feminist research in management and organization studies', International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 177-192. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12221

Smolovic-Jones, O, Smolovic-Jones, N, Taylor, S & Yarrow, E 2020, ''I wanted more women in, but...': Oblique resistance to gender equality initiatives', Work, Employment & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020936871

Chapter

Taylor, S & Tienari, J 2023, Men and feminist research: What research? What feminism? in S Katila, S Meriläinen & E Bell (eds), Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 405-418. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377035.00036

McCarthy, L, Soundararajan, V & Taylor, S 2023, The hegemony of men in global value chains: Insights for intersectional labour governance. in J Hearn, K Aavik, DL Collinson & A Thym (eds), Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing. 1st edn, Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, pp. 355-371. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193579-29

Spence, LJ & Taylor, S 2021, Toward future directions for critical CSR: beyond framing CSR as strategic, political, or utopian. in T Maak, NM Pless, M Orlitzky & S Sandhu (eds), The Routledge Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility. 1 edn, Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing, Taylor & Francis, pp. 331-341. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152651-33

Editorial

Bastian, B, Vershinina, N, Wood, B, Al-Dajani, H, Cooke, FL, Esnard, T, Imas, JM, Kelan, E, Garavan, T, Giazitzoglu, A, Hughes, C, MacKenzie, C, Özbilgin, M, Ozkazanc-Pan, B, Peng, Y, Prasad, A, Rodgers, YVDM, Sabelis, I, Swan, E & Taylor, S 2025, 'GWO in Interesting Times: Joint Editorial', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1686-1701. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13265

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