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Publications: DR Maria Adamson

Adamson M, Beauregard TA, Lewis S ( 2025 ) . Working parents and flexible work: contemplating gendered patterns and inclusive futures . Research Handbook on Gender, Work and Employment Relations , Edward Elgar Publishing
Adekoya OD, Adamson M, Mordi C, Ajonbadi HA, Adisa T ( 2024 ) . In the Grip of Traditionalism? How Nigerian Middle-Class Working Mothers Navigate Normative Ideals of Femininity . Gender & Society vol. 38 , ( 6 ) 841 - 867 .
Kossek EE, Hill NS, Burnett L, Kelliher C, Beauregard A, Adamson M ( 2024 ) . Flexible Working in a Post-Pandemic World: Clarifying Concepts and Insights for the Future . Academy of Management Proceedings vol. 2024 , ( 1 ) Article 15485 ,
Adamson M, Kelan EK ( 2023 ) . Reading In‐Between: How Women Engage with Messages of ‘Superstar’ Business Role Models . British Journal of Management vol. 35 , ( 3 ) 1449 - 1467 .
Adamson M, Muhr SL, Beauregard TA ( 2022 ) . Theorising work–life balance endeavours as a gendered project of the self: The case of senior executives in Denmark . Human Relations vol. 76 , ( 4 ) 629 - 654 .
Adamson M, Kelan E, Lewis P, Śliwa M, Rumens N ( 2020 ) . Introduction: Critically interrogating inclusion in organisations . Organization vol. 28 , ( 2 ) 211 - 227 .
Adamson M, Johansson M ( 2020 ) . Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen’s Autobiographies . Sociology vol. 55 , ( 3 ) 487 - 504 .
Adamson M ( 2020 ) . Researching Business Celebrity Autobiographies . The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods , Routledge
Beauregard TA, Adamson M, Kunter A, Miles L, Roper I ( 2020 ) . Diversity in the work–life interface: introduction to the special issue . Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal vol. 39 , ( 5 ) 465 - 478 .
Adamson M ( 2020 ) . Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality. Edited by ShaniOrgad. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2019, 288 pp., https://doi.org/10.7312/orga18472 . Gender, Work & Organization vol. 27 , ( 2 ) 281 - 283 .
Lewis P, Adamson M, Biese I, Kelan E ( 2019 ) . Introduction to special issue: Exploring the emergence of moderate feminism(s) in contemporary organizations . Gender, Work & Organization vol. 26 , ( 8 ) 1063 - 1072 .
Adamson M, Roper I ( 2019 ) . ‘Good’ Jobs and ‘Bad’ Jobs: Contemplating Job Quality in Different Contexts . Work, Employment and Society vol. 33 , ( 4 ) 551 - 559 .
Lup D, Beauregard TA, Adamson M ( 2018 ) . The Many Faces of Gender Inequality at Work . Work, Employment and Society vol. 32 , ( 4 ) 623 - 628 .
Adamson M, Kelan EK ( 2018 ) . ‘Female Heroes’: Celebrity Executives as Postfeminist Role Models . British Journal of Management vol. 30 , ( 4 ) 981 - 996 .
Adamson M ( 2018 ) . Book Review: <i>Like Mother, Like Daughter?</i> by Jill Armstrong . Organization vol. 25 , ( 5 ) 687 - 689 .
Adamson M, Kelan E, Lewis P, Rumens N, Śliwa M ( 2017 ) . Exploring Gendered Inclusion in Contemporary Organizations – ESRC . Impact vol. 2017 , ( 9 ) 56 - 57 .
Adamson M, Salmenniemi S ( 2017 ) . ‘The Bottom Line Is That the Problem Is You’: Aesthetic Labour, Postfeminism and Subjectivity in Russian Self-Help Literature . Aesthetic Labour , Palgrave Macmillan UK
Adamson M ( 2016 ) . Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and A ‘Successfully’ Balanced Femininity in Celebrity CEO Autobiographies . Gender, Work &amp; Organization vol. 24 , ( 3 ) 314 - 327 .
Adamson M, Kispeter E ( 2016 ) . Gender and professional work in Hungary and the USSR: intersecting and diverging histories . Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR , Macmillan International Higher Education ( London ),
Adamson M, Kelan EK, Lewis P, Rumens N, Slíwa M ( 2016 ) . The quality of equality: thinking differently about gender inclusion in organizations . Human Resource Management International Digest vol. 24 , ( 7 ) 8 - 11 .
Adamson M, Johansson M ( 2016 ) . Compositions of professionalism in counselling work: An embodied and embedded intersectionality framework . Human Relations vol. 69 , ( 12 ) 2201 - 2223 .
Adamson M ( 2016 ) . Book review: Jesse Potter, <i>Crisis at Work: Identity and the End of Career</i> . Work, Employment and Society vol. 31 , ( 4 ) 714 - 715 .
Adamson M ( 2015 ) . Book review: Jane Horan, <i>How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations</i> . Work, Employment and Society vol. 30 , ( 2 ) 380 - 381 .
Adamson M ( 2015 ) . The making of a glass slipper . Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal vol. 34 , ( 3 ) 214 - 226 .
Adamson M, Manson S, Zakaria I ( 2014 ) . Executive remuneration consultancy in the UK: exploring a professional project through the lens of institutional work . Journal of Professions and Organization vol. 2 , ( 1 ) 19 - 37 .
Adamson M ( 2014 ) . Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession . Gender, Work &amp; Organization vol. 21 , ( 6 ) 559 - 572 .
Salmenniemi S, Adamson M ( 2014 ) . New Heroines of Labour: Domesticating Post-feminism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Russia . Sociology vol. 49 , ( 1 ) 88 - 105 .
Adamson M . DIVERSITY IN THE WORK-LIFE INTERFACE . Special Issues of Equality Diversity and inclusion