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How We Are Doing What We Are Doing: Network Mechanisms of Gender Representation in I-O Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2018

Christopher Sterling*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno
Rich DeJordy
Affiliation:
Department of Management, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno
Julie Olson-Buchanan
Affiliation:
Department of Management, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Christopher Sterling, Department of Management, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno, 5245 N. Backer Avenue M/S PB7, Fresno, CA 93740. E-mail: csterling@mail.fresnostate.edu

Extract

The field of psychology has a long history of tracing the lineage of modern day psychologists back to their academic roots (Benjamin, Durkin, Link, Vestal, & Accord, 1992), and industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology is no exception (Culbertson, 2016). Why do we do it? Well, it is intriguing to see how our initial training may be linked back to some of the pioneers of our field. Perhaps it also represents how we are connected with one another—through our extended family relationships. But of course an academic family tree only reflects a portion of how we might be interconnected with one another—certainly our networks go much further than our dissertation chairs. Indeed, they might include our collaborators, coworkers and former coworkers, fellow former graduate students, and a host of people with whom we have connected at conferences or through other professional and personal relationships, and the composition of these networks, arguably, matters.

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2018 

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