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Robyn Remke

Associate professor , PhD
Robyn Remke

Intercultural Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18A
2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3196
E-mail: rr.ikl@cbs.dk



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My research in organizational communication is guided by a feminist communicology that is grounded in critical, postmodern, and feminist theories. I am interested in exploring organizational discourses as they are articulated by individual and collective organizational actors. In particular, my theoretical interests center on organizational irrationality in public welfare organizations. My research centers around the study of organizational irrationality on a first-person, experiential level because organizational beings interpret and understand organizational irrationality differently—both in their lived experience of organizational life, as well as through the resistance-practices they develop individually over time.
My research therefore attempts to locate and understand the material reality of organizational resistance within a postmodern condition of fragmented and multiple identities. While my research most often centers on topics relating to social justice and poverty issues within organizations, my other research interests include using an organizational contradiction framework to understand workplace spirituality, studying female leaders/leadership, and family/workplace public policy.

Primary research areas

  • Organizational communication
  • Gender and organizations
  • Organizational irrationality
  • Spirituality in the workplace
  • Women and leadership
  • Family/workplace policy


Selected publications

Buzzanell, P. M., Meisenbach, R., Remke, R. V., Turner, L., & Sterk, H. (authors listed alphabetically) (forthcoming spring 2008) Positioning gender as fundamental in applied communication research. Chapter submitted to L. R. Frey & K. N. Cissna (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Communication Research (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
Buzzanell, P. M., Meisenbach, R., Remke, R. V. (authors listed alphabetically) (forthcoming) Women, leadership, and dissent. Chapter submitted to S. Banks (Ed.), What’s wrong with leadership? How leaders fail by treating dissent as a threat and what can be done about it. (A trade book proposal in preparation for submission to Oxford University Press).
Buzzanell, P. M., Meisenbach, R., Remke, R., Liu, M., Bowers, V., & Conn, C. (2005). The good working mother: Managerial women’s sensemaking and feelings about work-family issues . Communication Studies, 56. 261-285.
Meisenbach, R., Remke, R. V., & Buzzanell, P. M. (forthcoming) “We were allowed”: Investigating the presence of a bureaucratic pentad in women’s maternity leave discourse.Communication Monographs.


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