Viktorija Kalonaityte
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Management
School of Business and Economics
I am Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies and a member of the Work Aesthetics Research Group, which is affiliated with the Entrepreneurship Knowledge Platform at the School of Business and Economics.
Teaching
Among the topics and courses that I teach are
- Organization studies
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Globalization, diversity and gender
- Critical pedagogy
- Topics related to Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainability and the climate change
Research
My research interests are:
- Office design and architecture, with particular focus on open-plan, playful and creative offices
- Girlhood and girls in organizations and entrepreneurship
- Post-colonial theory and issues related to workplace diversity
- The climate change and the Anthropocene
I am currently working on
- A paper on a re-framing of Anthropocene through scholarship of Jaques Rancière
- A paper on how office spaces are curated by the architects and designers (presented at EGOS 2017 in Copenhagen)
- A paper on the absence of girly aesthetical themes in playful office design (upcoming presentation in November 2017 at the Entrepreneurship Knowledge Platform)
- A paper on the relationship between office space, creativity and surveillance
I have recently published
Alexandersson, Anna, and Kalonaityte, Viktorija. (2017). 'Playing to Dissent: The Politics and Aesthetics of Playful Office design'. Online first: Organization Studies. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0170840617717545
We are accredited
The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; AACSB.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Gashi Nulleshi, S., Kalonaityte, V. (2023). Gender roles or gendered goals? Women's return to rural family business. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. 15 (1). 44-63.
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Alexandersson, A., Kalonaityte, V. (2021). Girl bosses, punk poodles, and pink smoothies : Girlhood as Enterprising Femininity. Gender, Work and Organization. 28 (1). 416-438.
Status: Published -
Alexandersson, A., Kalonaityte, V. (2018). Playing to dissent : the aesthetics and politics of playful office design. Organization Studies. 39 (2-3). 297-317.
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Kalonaityte, V. (2018). When rivers go to court : The Anthropocene in organization studies through the lens of Jacques Ranciere. Organization. 25 (4). 517-532.
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Kalonaityte, V. (2010). The Case of Vanishing Borders : Theorizing Diversity Management as Internal Border Control. Organization. 17 (1). 31-52.
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Kalonaityte, V., Kawesa, V., Tedros, A. (2008). Svarta(s) Strategier : Att hantera rasism och diskriminering som svart svensk. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 15 (3-4). 210-220.
Status: Published
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Kalonaityte, V., Alexandersson, A. (2015). Playing to Transgress : The Pleasures and Dangers of Playful Office Design. 10th Organization Studies Workshop, 21 May, 2015, Chania.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Kalonaityte, V. (2012). Inscribing the Body : The Construction of Educational Practices for the Female Other.. Against the Grain : Advances in Postcolonial Organizational Studies. Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School Press.
- Kalonaityte, V., Prasad, P., Tedros, A. (2010). A Possible Brain Drain : Workplace Diversity and Equal Treatment in Sweden. International Handbook on Diversity Management at Work : Country Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing. 244-263.
Book (Other academic)
- Kalonaityte, V. (2014). Normkritisk pedagogik : för den högre utbildningen. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Kalonaityte, V., Kawesa, V., Tedros, A. (2014). Svarta(s) strategier : att hantera rasism och diskriminering som svart svensk. Bryt upp! : om etik och rasism. Lund, BTJ Förlag.
- Kalonaityte, V. (2011). Akademisk karriär och etnicitet. Att träda in i en profession : om hur kvinnor och män etablerar sig inom revisionsbranschen och akademin. Lund, Lund Institute of Economic Research.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Kalonaityte, V. (2008). Off the Edge of the Map : A Study of Organizational Diversity as Identity Work. Doctoral Thesis. Lund, Institute for Economic Research.
Article, book review (Other academic)
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Kalonaityte, V. (2008). The Civilization of Clashes : Review of Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger by Arjun Appadurai. Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. 8 (1). 111-115.
Status: Published