Dr. Gabrielle Durepos, Professor, Management

 

Dr Gabrielle Durepose fulltime faculty in the department of business and tourism, area management.Gabrielle (Gabie) Durepos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business and Tourism, at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, where in her teaching she specializes in management and her research focuses on management and organizational history.

Gabrielle’s co-authored book: ANTi-History: Theorizing the Past, History, and Historiography in Management and Organization Studies, develops a critical organizational history to reveal the role of history in liberationary politics. She is a coeditor of both the Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study Research as well as the SAGE Major Work on Case Study Methods in Business Research. Both of these works include a focus on revealing the contribution of feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical approaches to the development of case study research. Gabrielle’s most recent publications appear in Management & Organizational History, Journal of Management History, Critical Perspectives on International Business, and Organization.

She is currently engaged in a critical Organizational History of a Provincial Museum Complex in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is also the co-investigator on a major Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant to study the development of management thought in Canada.

Gabrielle’s research interests include: organizational history, critical historiography, the history of management thought, methodology and, gender and diversity.

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Detailed Profile

Dr. Gabrielle Durepos
Professor
Management

Office: McCain Centre 406H
Phone: 902 457 6230
Fax: 902 445 2582
Email: Gabrielle.Durepos@msvu.ca
Office Hours: Available by appointment

Qualifications:
BCOMM (Mount Allison), MA (Lancaster), PhD in Business Administration (Saint Mary’s)

Joined the Mount: 2014

Relevant Prior Work Experience:
Department of Management, Saint Mary’s University (2006 – 2009)
Department of Business Administration, St Francis Xavier University (2009 – 2014)

Courses Taught:
Communications Management, Gender and Management, Macro Organizational Behaviour, Micro Organizational Behaviour, Industrial Relations, Introduction to Business

Research Interests:
Management and organizational history, the history of management thought, epistemology, ontology, actor-network theory, methodology, case study research, ANTi-History, gender and diversity, historiography.

Research Grants:
External Research Grants:
Co-investigator Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant titled:
Reassembling Canadian management knowledge: dispersion, equity, identity and history; 2013.

Internal Research Grants:

  • SSHRC Institutional Grant recipient; St. Francis Xavier University, May 2013.
  • Recipient of a University Council for Research Grant; St. Francis Xavier University, 2011.
  • Recipient of a Centre for Regional Studies Grant; St. Francis Xavier University, 2011.
  • Recipient of the 2005-2008 Saint Mary’s University Graduate Fellowship.
  • Recipient of the 2007-2008 Bernard Kline Memorial Fellowship.

Academic Activities and Publications (since 2006):
Books:

  • Durepos, G. & Thurlow, A. (forthcoming in 2023). Archival Research in Historical Organization Studies: Theorizing Silences. Bingley: Emerald.
  • Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2013). Introduction to Central Themes in Case Study Research in Business, Volume I of Case Study Methods in Business Research (eds.). London: SAGE.
  • Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2013). Positivist Case Study Research in Business, Volume II of Case Study Methods in Business Research (eds.). London: SAGE.
  • Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2013). Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to Case Studies in Business, Volume III of Case Study Methods in Business Research (eds.). London: SAGE.
  • Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2013). Case Study Research from the Traditions of the Post and Beyond, Volume IV of Case Study Methods in Business Research (eds.). London: SAGE.
  • Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2012). ANTi-History: Theorizing the Past, History, and Historiography in Management and Organizational Studies. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
  • Mills, A. J., Durepos, G., & Wiebe, E. (2010). Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (Vol. Two). California: SAGE.
  • Mills, A. J., Durepos, G., & Wiebe, E. (2010). Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (Vol. One). California: Sage.
  • Durepos, G. (2009). ANTi-History: Toward an Historiographical Approach to (Re)assembling Knowledge of the Past. PhD Dissertation, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Book Chapters:

  • Durepos, G., Mills, A. & McLaren, P. (forthcoming). Contextualizing the Historian: An ANTi-History Perspective in (eds). Bruce, K. Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History. Elgar.
  • Deal, N., Mills, A., Helms Mills, J. & Durepos, G. (2019). History in the Making: Following the failed attempt of Wolfgang Langewiesche in Pan American Airways History Project in (Ed.), Hartt, C. Connecting Values to Action: Non-Corporeal Actants and Choice in Actor Network Theory (ANT) (p. 37-51). Emerald Publishing Limited. doi:10.1108/978-1-78973-307-520191004
  • Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2017). ANTi-History: An Alternative Approach to Historiography. In C. Cassell, A. Cunliffe, & G. Grandy (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods. London: SAGE.
  • Durepos, G. (2016). Early Career Reflections on Discursive Pressures in Business Schools. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Contesting institutional hegemony in today’s business schools: Doctoral students speak out (pp. 31-41). Bingley, UK: Emerald.
  • Durepos, G. (2015). ANTi-History: Toward Amodern Histories. In P. G. McLaren, A. J. Mills & T. Weatherbee (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History (pp. 153-180). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Jacques, R., & Durepos, G. (2015). A history of Management Histories: Does the story of our past and the way we tell it matter?. In P. G. McLaren, A. J. Mills & T. Weatherbee (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History (Vol. 1). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Mills, A.J., and Durepos, G.(2013) `Editor’s Introduction: Case Study Methods in Business Research,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.xxi-xxii), Vol.1. London: Sage.
  • Mills, A. J., and Durepos, G. (2013) `Introduction: Developments and Debates in Case Study Research in Business,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp. xxix-xxxiii), Vol.1. London: Sage.
  • Durepos, G., and Mills, A.J. (2013) `Introduction: Positivist Case Study Research in Business,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.vii-xviii), Vol.2. London: Sage.
  • Mills, A.J., and Durepos, G. (2013) `Introduction: Interpretivist and Critical Case Study Research in Business,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.vii-ix), Vol.3. London: Sage.
  • Durepos, G., and Mills, A.J. (2013) `Introduction: Case Study Research from the Traditions of the Post and Beyond’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.vii-xvii), Vol.4. London: Sage.
  • Diochon, M., Durepos, G., & Anderson, A. (2011). Understanding Opportunity in Social Entrepreneurship as Paradigm Interplay. In J. Katz & T. Lumpkin (Eds.), Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (Vol. 13, pp. 73-112).
  • Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2010). ANTi-History. In A. Mills, G. Durepos & E. Weibe (Eds.), SAGE Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (pp. 26-28). California: Sage.
  • Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J. & Mills, A. (2008) “The Pan American Dream and the Myth of the Pioneer” pp.156-168 In M. Kostera, “Organizational Epics and Sagas: Tales of Organizations” Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Durepos, G. & Mills, A. (2008) “Morality in Context: Reflections on Voice and Exclusion” pp.283-297 In D. Boje, “Critical Theory for Business and Public Administration Ethics” Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Refereed Book Chapters

  • Durepos, G. (in press). ANTi-History. In S. Decker, W. Foster & E. Giovannoni, (Eds.), Handbook of Historical Methods for Management (pp.xx-xx). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
  • Durepos, G. & Barros, A. (2022). Haunted Houses: Addressing Archival Silences in Business (Hi)Storytelling. In A.J. Mills & N. Deal (Eds.), History and Business Storytelling (pp.29-47). Singapore: World Scientific Publishers.
  • Mills, A. J., Durepos, G., Thurlow, A., & Helms Mills, J. (2022). The Atlantic Schools of Business: An auto-anthography. In A. J. Mills (Ed.), History and Business Storytelling (pp.97-122). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.

Journal Articles:

  • Weatherbee, T. & Durepos, G. (2022). The Evolution of Management Thought: reflections on narrative structure. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted 09 August 2022. DOI fortcoming.
  • Aston, J., Barker, H., Durepos, G., Garrett-Scott, S., Hudson, P. J., Kwolek-Folland, A., Dean, H, Perriton, L, Taylor, S & Yeager, M. (forthcoming 2023). Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism. Business History.
  • McLaren, P., Bridgman, T., Cummings, S., Lubinski, C., O’Connor, E., Spender, J.-C., & Durepos, G. (2021). From the Editors—New Times, New Histories of the Business School. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(3) 293-299. doi: https://doi-org.library.smu.ca/10.5465/amle.2021.0318
  • Durepos, G., Shaffner, E., & Taylor, S. (2020). Developing Critical Organizational History: Context, Practice, and Implications. Organization, conditional accept
  • McLaren, P. & Durepos, G. (2019). A Call to Practice Context in Management and Organization Studies. Journal of Management Inquiry. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492619837596
  • Durepos, G. & Mills, A. (2017). Editors’ picks: history research in management and organization studies. Organization Online, http://journals.sagepub.com/page/org/collections/org-editors-picks
  • Durepos, G (2017). In praise of fragmentation in historical organization studies. Workplace
    Review.     April Issue, 4-17.
  • Durepos, G. & Mills, A. G. (2017). ANTi-History, relationalism and the historic turn in management and organization studies. Qualitative Research in Organization and Management, 12(1) 53-67.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/QROM-07-2016-1393
  • Durepos, G., McKinlay, A. & Taylor, S. (2017). Narrating histories of women at work: in and out of the archive. Business History, 59(8) 1261-1279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2016.1276900
  • Mills, A., Suddaby, R., Foster, W., & Durepos, G. (2016). Re-visiting the historic turn 10 years later: current debates in management and organizational history – an introduction. Management & Organizational History, 11(2) 67-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2016.1164927
  • Prasad, A. & Durepos, G. (2016). From margin to center: listening to silenced subjectivities in international business. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 12(3) 218-221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-10-2015-0048
  • Durepos, G., Prasad, A. & Villanueva, C. E. (2016). How might we study international business to account for marginalized subjects? Turning to practice and situating knowledges. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 12(3) 306-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-03-2016-0004
  • Mills, A., Weatherbee, T., & Durepos, G. (2014). Resembling Weber: The-past-as-history in Management and Organization Studies. Organization, 21(2) 225-243.
  • Weatherbee, T., Durepos, G., Mills, A. J., & Helms Mills, J. (2012). Theorizing the Past: Critical Engagements. Management & Organizational History, 7(3) 193-202.
  • Durepos, G., Mills, A., & Weatherbee, T. (2012). Theorizing the Past: Realism, Relativism, Relationalism & the Reassembly of Weber. Management & Organizational History, 7(3) 267-281.
  • Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2012). Actor Network Theory, ANTi-History, and Critical Organizational Historiography. Organization, 19(6) 703-721.
  • Hartt, C., Mills, A., Helms Mills, J., & Durepos, G. (2012). Markets, Organizations, Institutions and National Identity: Pan American Airways, Postcoloniality and Latin America. Critical Perspectives of International Business, 8(1) 14-36.
  • McLaren, P. G., Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2009). Disseminating Drucker: Knowledge, Tropes and the North American Management Textbook. Journal of Management History. 15(4), 388-403.
  • Hartt, C., Mills, A., Helms Mills, J., & Durepos, G. (2009). Guiding the Space Age From the Ground Up: Pam Am, Cold War and Guided Missiles. Management & Organizational History, 4(3), 229-245.
  • Durepos, G., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2008). Tales in the Manufacture of Knowledge: Writing a Company History of Pan American Airways. Management & Organizational History, 3(1), 63-80.
  • Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J. & Mills, A. (2008). Flights of Fancy: Myth, Monopoly and the Making of Pan American Airways. Journal of Management History, 14(2), 116-127.

Conference Papers:

  • 33. Durepos, G. & Vince, R. (2019). Historical Reflexivity: the potential and practice. Paper
    Presented at the European Group on Organizational Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 04, 2019.
  • Deal, N., Mills, A. J., Helms Mills, J. and Durepos, G. (2018). History in the Making: Pan Am and Wolfgang Langewiesche. Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Durepos, G. Shaffner, E. & Taylor, S. (2017). Whither Critical Organizational History? Paper presented at Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Mills, A., Durepos, G., Thurlow, A., & Helms Mills, J. (2017). The Atlantic Schools of Business: an autoanthography. Paper presented at the European Group for Organization Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Durepos, G. (2017). Theorising context in historical organization studies: An example of the Nova Scotia Museum. Paper presented at the 10th Critical Management Studies Conference, Liverpool, UK.

Refereed Conference Presentations:

  • Durepos, G. (2016). “In Praise of Fragmentation in Historical Organization Studies.” Paper presented at Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2016). “ANTi-History: An Alternative Approach to Historiography.” Paper presented at Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA.
  • McLaren, P. G., & Durepos, G. (2015). “Theorizing Context in Management and Organization Studies.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Durepos, G., & McLaren, P. G. (2015). “Theorizing History and Context in Management and Organization Studies.” Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies 9, University of Leicester.
  • Durepos, G. (2014). ANTi-History: Toward Amodern Histories. Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Durepos, G., & Weatherbee, T. (2013). Performing history: The golden years at Nova Scotia Museums. Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies, Montreal, Canada.
  • Weatherbee, T. & Durepos, G. (2013). The Historic Turn and MOS: Getting Beyond False Consciousness in Our History-Work. Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Florida, USA.
  • Weatherbee, T., Durepos, G., Mills, A. J. & Hartt, C. (2012). Strawmen and Stereotypes: Haystacks, History and Weber in Management Historiography. Paper presented at the Academy of Management. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Mills, A., Weatherbee, T., & Durepos, G. (2011). Resembling Weber: The-past-as-history in Management and Organization Studies. Paper presented at the 27th European Group on Organizational Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Durepos, G., Mills, A., & Weatherbee, T. (2011). Theorizing the Past: Realism, Relativism, Relationalism & the Reassemble of Weber. Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies, Naples, Italy.
  • Hartt, C., Mills, A., Helms Mills, J., & Durepos, G. (2010). Markets, Organizations, Institutions and National Identity: Pan American Airways, Postcoloniality and Latin America, Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Durepos, G., Hartt, C., Mills, A., & Helms Mills, J. (2010). Performing the Past: ANTi-History, Gendered Spaces and Feminist Practice, European Group for Organizational Studies. Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2010). Actor Network Theory, ANTi-History, and Critical Organizational Historiography, Academy of Management. Montreal, Canada.
  • Weatherbee, T., & Durepos, G. (2010). Dar’wren’ian Evolution in Management: Implications of the ethics of epistemology for the scholar, Academy of Management. Montreal, Canada. Accepted for publication in the best paper proceedings.
  • Diochon, M., & Durepos, G. (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: Toward a Conceptualization of Opportunity, The Seventh Annual SATTER Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. New York, U.S.A.
  • Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2009). Founding Out: An ANTi-History account of history and the establishment of Pan American Airways. Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies 6. Warwick, UK.
  • Hartt, C., Mills, A., Mills, J. H., & Durepos, G. (2009). Guiding the Space Age From the Ground Up: Pam Am, Cold War and Guided Missiles. Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Weatherbee, T., & Durepos, G. (2009). Opening Maslow’s Black Box: An ANTist Perspective. Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Durepos, G. & Mills, A. J. (2008), Was There Ever a Plot? Towards an ANTi-History. Paper presented at the Academy of Management. Anaheim, California.
  • Weatherbee, T., & Durepos, G. (2008). Spanning the Gap: Actor-Networks, and Maslow. Paper presented at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • MacAulay, D., Mills, A., & Durepos, G. (2008). Resembling the Atlantic Schools of Business: Disruption, Construction and the Black-Boxing of Annual Conference – an Actor-Network Account. Paper presented at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Yue, T., Durepos, G. McLeod, E. & Mills, A. (2007) “Realizing where we have been: Critical reflections on making history and the Atlantic Schools of Business” Paper presented at the 2007 Critical Management Studies Conference: CMS5, Manchester, July 11-13.
  • Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J. & Mills, A. (2007) “Flights of Fancy: Myth, Monopoly and the Making of Pan American Airways.” Paper presented at the 2007 Critical Management Studies Conference: CMS5, Manchester, July 11-13.
  • Murray, W., Yue, A. Durepos, G., & Mills, A. (2007) Control Challenged: Why Homogenetic Structures May Fail in Radically Changing Environments. Paper presented at the 25th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July, 1-4
  • Durepos, G. (2007) A Meta-Analysis of Work Teams and Procedural Justice. Paper presented and accepted for proceedings at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Wolfville, NS, Sept 28th – Sept 30th.
  • Durepos, G. (2006) “Fleeting Thoughts on Enduring Networks: Conceptualizing the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference” Paper presented and accepted for proceedings at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Sackville, NB, Sept 29th – Oct 1st. Awarded Best Student Paper.
  • Durepos, G., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) “Tales in the Manufacture of Knowledge: Writing a Business History of Pan American Airways.” Paper presented at the Management History Division of the Academy of Management annual conference, Atlanta, Ge., August 5-11.
  • Durepos, G. & Helms Mills, J. (2006) “Evolution not Revolution: Small Gains in Critical Management Pedagogy” Paper presented at the Third Annual SPROTT conference, Ottawa, April 6th – 8th 2006.

Workshops & Symposia

  • McLaren P., Clarke, A. & Durepos, G. (2022). “The Future of Academic Conferences and Associations” Symposium delivered at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Halifax, Canada, June 04, 2022.
  • Durepos, G. (2022). “Publishing Qualitative Research in International Journals” Workshop delivered at FGV/EASP, São Paulo March 18, 2022.