Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261860 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] BRQ Business Research Quarterly [ISSN:] 2340-9436 [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Elsevier España [Place:] Barcelona [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 181-193
Publisher: 
Elsevier España, Barcelona
Abstract: 
The field of talent management (TM) has grown over the last two decades, and much theoretical and methodological progress has been made in an effort to better conceptualize the field. Despite these efforts, the construction of knowledge within TM research has ignored power and gender dynamics. In this paper, we adopt a feminist poststructuralist perspective and unveil how talent management theory is underpinned by predominant masculinist discourses that create and sustain business elites in a neoliberal world order. Based on a textual and discourse analysis of foundational texts on TM, we identify the power effects of language in shaping current TM theory. This study raises questions concerning the epistemological foundations of talent management as objective, neutral, and observable. We suggest that future researchers adopt critical methods of inquiry to ensure that gender and equity issues are interrogated within dominant talent management writings.
Subjects: 
Discourse analysis
Feminist poststructuralist lens
Gender
Masculinities
Talent management
Textual analysis
JEL: 
B54
J24
M12
M51
M54
O15
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Document Type: 
Article

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