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43
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Overview

Chris Steyaert is affiliated with the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on specialized subfields including gender studies, organizational behavior and human resource management, sociology and political science, management of technology and innovation, and geography, planning and development.

The main topics addressed in their scholarly work include gender diversity and inequality, participatory visual research methods, management and organizational studies, entrepreneurship studies and influences, geographies of human-animal interactions, posthumanist ethics and activism, and feminism, gender, and sexuality studies.

Steyaert's recent publications feature studies on management learning and organizational culture. Some notable papers include:

  • "If a (queer) revolt is to come": Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning (2022, Management Learning)
  • The atmospheric attunement of diversity interventions: learnings from a dance performance (2023, Culture and Organization)
  • Ambivalent affects of queer resistance: the Stonewall uprising at the opera (2025, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal)

Other relevant works, often in collaboration with co-authors, explore themes of affect, pedagogy, and democratic cooperative practices in organizational contexts. The following are frequent co-authors in Steyaert's research:

  • Maddy Janssens
  • Daniel Hjorth
  • Timon Beyes
  • Jonas Friedrich

Steyaert has published books with Bristol University Press eBooks, including multiple editions of the work titled On Practicing Diversity (2025).

Their publications are often found in a range of academic venues, including:

  • Management Learning
  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Culture and Organization
  • Human Relations
  • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal

Best Publications

  • Reclaiming the space of entrepreneurship in society: geographical, discursive and social dimensions

    Chris Steyaert;Jerome Katz

  • ‘Entrepreneuring’ as a conceptual attractor? A review of process theories in 20 years of entrepreneurship studies

    Chris Steyaert

  • Entrepreneurship as Social Change: A Third Movements in Entrepreneurship Book

    Chris Steyaert;Daniel Hjorth

  • The politics of narrating social entrepreneurship

    Pascal Dey;Chris Steyaert

  • Narrative And Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship: A Second Movements in Entrepreneurship Book

    Daniel Hjorth;Chris Steyaert

  • Spacing organization: non-representational theory and performing organizational space

    Timon Beyes;Chris Steyaert

  • Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship

    Daniel Hjorth;Chris Steyaert

  • Developing language strategies for international companies: the contribution of translation studies

    Maddy Janssens;José Lambert;Chris Steyaert

  • HRM and Performance: A Plea for Reflexivity in HRM Studies

    Maddy Janssens;Chris Steyaert

  • New movements in entrepreneurship

    Chris Steyaert;Daniel Hjorth

  • Entrepreneurship and process studies

    Daniel Hjorth;Robin Holt;Chris Steyaert

  • Rethinking the Space of Ethics in Social Entrepreneurship: Power, Subjectivity, and Practices of Freedom

    Pascal Dey;Chris Steyaert

  • A Qualitative Methodology for Process Studies of Entrepreneurship: Creating local knowledge through stories

    Chris Steyaert

  • Re-considering Language within a Cosmopolitan Understanding: Toward a Multilingual Franca Approach in International Business Studies

    Maddy Janssens;Chris Steyaert

  • The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship: A Fourth Movements in Entrepreneurship Book

    Daniel Hjorth;Chris Steyaert

  • Entrepreneurship as Discourse and Life Style

    Daniel Hjorth;Bengt Johannisson;Chris Steyaert

  • Of course that is not the whole (toy) story: Entrepreneurship and the cat's cradle

    Chris Steyaert

  • Multilingual organizations as 'linguascapes' : Negotiating the position of English through discursive practices

    Chris Steyaert;Anja Ostendorp;Claudine Gaibrois

  • Social entrepreneurship: critique and the radical enactment of the social

    Pascal Dey;Chris Steyaert

  • Nine Verbs to Keep the Social Entrepreneurship Research Agenda ‘Dangerous’

    Chris Steyaert;Pascal Dey

  • The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education

    Chris Steyaert;Timon Beyes;Martin Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Van Looy
Bart Van Looy KU Leuven
Martin Parker
Martin Parker University of Bristol
Robin Holt
Robin Holt University of Bristol
Stella M. Nkomo
Stella M. Nkomo University of Pretoria
Hans Landström
Hans Landström Lund University
William B. Gartner
William B. Gartner Babson College
Jerome A. Katz
Jerome A. Katz Saint Louis University

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