Network C: Gender, Work & Family
A particular interest of the network is theory and research on social policies that produce greater compatibility between institutions geared toward production for the market and reproduction in the family. The network also focuses on cultural and social barriers that prevent positive integration of family and work, examines gender inequalities in work and family, and looks at the inter-relationship of gender roles across these institutions. Empirical as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. Some possible themes for presentations and sessions (you can also propose a session with 3-4 papers) include the following: care issues, work-life articulation, parental leave policies, working time and gender, elder care, the role of the State and firms in work-life issues, social policies and care regimes, international comparisons, etc.
Network C Organizers
Bernard Fusulier
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research / University of Louvain
Bernard Fusulier
Bernard Fusulier is a Research Director at the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, where he works at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Socialisation, Education and Training (GIRSEF) and at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE). His main research interests include the relationship between gender, work and family; life course; sociology of work; sociology of organisation; and theoretical sociology (social transaction approach in particular). Of his involvement in SASE, he says: “In SASE I found an intellectual space highly complementary to the other sociological meetings I normally attend. SASE provides an opportunity to meet colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines, and to learn more about current research in areas of interest to me.”
Télé-Université of the University of Quebec
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay is Canada Research Chair on the Knowledge Economy and professor of labor economics, innovation, and human resources at the Télé-Université of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests include employment policies, clusters (multimedia, IT, and film sectors) working time and work-life balance, telework, self-employment, work organization, teamwork, and communities of practice. Professor Tremblay has been an active member of SASE for over twenty years, participating in all aspects of the organization. In addition to her work as a network organizer, she has also been a member of the Executive Council and the Local Organizing Committee for Montreal in 1997. “What I appreciate in SASE,” says Tremblay, “is the diversity of issues that are discussed, and the interdisciplinary nature of the debates.”
Over the years, she has been an invited professor at Université de Paris I Sorbonne, Université de Lille I, Université d’Angers, Université de Toulouse, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, HEC, Université de Liège in Belgium, the University of Social Sciences of Hanoi (Vietnam) and at the European School of Management.
Prof. Tremblay has published articles in many global peer-reviewed journals: Cities, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Personnel Review, New Technology, Work and Employment, Innovations, International Journal of Enterprise and Innovation Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Innovation Economics, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, International Journal of Human Resources Management,Canadian Journal of Urban Research, etc. She has written many books on working time, parental leave, as well as textbooks in labour economics, sociology of work, and work organization.
SASE Networks
A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations
This network focuses on the moral or values-based underpinnings of human thought, practices, and institutions that comprise civil societies, particularly as they relate to the participatory, collectivist, and democratic aspirations of organizations, markets, and other spaces of collaboration and contestation.
B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development
This network considers how, at a time of a polycrisis, domestic, transnational, and international institutions and markets influence the contours of developmental opportunities in the global economy and beyond.
C: Gender, Work & Family
This network focuses on exploring the current state, and the changes in institutions concerned with gender and family roles and workplace organization.
D: Professions and Expertise
Through the Professions and expertise network we seek to develop critical analysis of the dynamics of professions and expertise.
E: Comparative Capitalisms
The aim of this network is to advance research on changing labor markets, industrial relations, and systems of social protection within the study of contemporary capitalisms.
F: KITE: Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
This network focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as its underlying technologies and knowledge sources. On these topics, we particularly welcome, but do not require an institutional perspective.
G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources
The network welcomes contributions on the general issues of labor market segmentation, unemployment, and the link between training, skills and jobs.
H: Markets, Firms and Institutions
This network focuses on the interrelationships between markets, firms, and institutions.
I: Alternatives to Capitalism
The broad aim of this research network is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.
J: Digital Economy
Digital technologies are contributing to radical, growing and unpredictable transformations of economic life, raising a broad range of new issues for scholars of the economy. This research network is dedicated to the study of these issues.
K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
This network focuses on making work better through actor experimentation with institutions to regulate work.
L: Regulation and Governance
This network promotes the interdisciplinary study of regulation and governance at national and global levels.
M: Spanish Language
A lively Spanish-speaking section that was established in 2011.
N: Finance and Society
The goal of this network is to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on the study of finance and include perspectives from social sciences outside of economics.
O: Global Value Chains
This network aims to bring together social scientists interested in analyzing the causes and consequences of this offshoring-outsourcing phenomenon.
P: Accounting, Economics, and Law
This network focuses on the intersection of accounting, economics and law. Institutional design, rules and social norms are critical to the working of organizations in economy and society.
Q: Asian Capitalisms
The basic idea of this first area network within SASE is to make Asia a central field of investigation for theories of institutional change and diversity of capitalism.
R: Islamic Moral Economy and Finance
This network aims at bringing scholars and practitioners together to consider and discuss the role of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance in achieving its stated ideals by highlighting the tension areas as well as the dynamism observed in the practice of Islamic finance.
S: Environment and Climate Change
This Network aspires to advance a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical dialogue on the interactions between the economy, society, and the environment.
T: Health
This network focuses on the social scientific study of health, broadly defined. It explores four key areas: the embeddedness of health within broader economic, political, and social structures and systems, health equality and equity, organizing and the organization of health, and pricing and valuation of health. The network aims to foster an interdisciplinary community and promote cross-national comparisons in global health, including but not limited to studies about drugs, medicines, healthcare, community and public health, and health policy.
U: Postcolonialism and Legacies of Empire
This network is devoted to engaging the connections between imperialism, colonialism, racism, slavery, and capitalist expansion and global socio-economic development.
V: Geoeconomics
This network explores empirical and theoretical puzzles at the intersection of geopolitics, international political economy, and national capitalist systems in an era of ongoing global transformation. It brings together scholars studying how intensifying rivalries, shifting power relations, and geoeconomic competition reshape state strategies, growth models, welfare regimes, and global production networks (and vice versa).
W: Elites and Power Structures
This network examines how economic, political, and cultural elites shape contemporary socio-economic systems. It brings together scholars exploring elite formation, power, and networks, and their influence on inequality, institutions, markets, and social change through comparative and interdisciplinary research.