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The Research Feed is intended to make members of the work-family community aware of recent scholarship in academic publications (such as academic journals and books) or items of interest to the academic research community. The Research Feed canvases research journals that commonly publish work-family studies. The feed is presented on the WFRN website and is directed to members’ email accounts.
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Work from Home and Shifting Perceptions of Career Prospects among Employees with Children: The Role of Work- and Family-Related Conte
Purpose This study examines how individual work- and family-related circumstances shape the relationship between working from home and self-perceived changes in career prospects among employed parents, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. We particularly investigate how prior experience with work from home (WFH), occupational status and the intensity of family demands moderate this [Read More…]
October 13, 2026
Leadership Development in the Global South: Insights from the Nigerien Diaspora
This article investigates internationally trained Nigerien diasporans’ attempts to enact transformational leadership after returning home. Based on a two-stage qualitative analysis, the study shows that transnational exposure fosters leadership identities grounded in meritocracy, innovation, and collective responsibility. Yet, the participants report that systemic barriers of bureaucratic rigidity, clientelism, and insider–outsider dynamics challenge their long-term engagement [Read More…]
October 13, 2026
‘People Who Are Much Better at Managing Their Affairs’: Australian Managers’ Experiences of Supervising Fathers Who Work Part-Time
The literature about engaged fatherhood and part-time work is expanding, but much of this work has focused almost exclusively on the experiences of the father or his partner. Much less is known about the experiences of managers who supervise part-time working fathers. To address this gap, the current study interviewed 15 Australian managers of fathers [Read More…]
October 13, 2026
The Bamboo Ceiling in the UK: Ethnicity–Gender Intersectionality, Risk Tolerance, and Leadership Attainment
In the UK, Asians are often perceived as the “model minority” who face few hardships due to their strong educational performance and economic success. We question this perception by uncovering a “Bamboo Ceiling” in leadership attainment for certain Asian subgroups in the UK. Whereas many researchers and practitioners treat Asians as a monolith, we recognize [Read More…]
October 13, 2026
On (Emotionally) Involved Fathers and Family Breadwinners: Being a Dad and Fatherhood in Transition
Historical, social and societal changes have altered the conditions under which parents, fathers and mothers live family lives today. Like the realities of parents’ and families’ lives, the images of parenthood, fatherhood and motherhood have changed. In recent years, so-called ‘new’ fathers have become the center of attention. However, a focus solely on fathers and [Read More…]
October 13, 2026
Organizational consolidation: How organizations reflect or refract societal hierarchies
To understand how organizations distribute resources, we need to understand how they come to evaluate their members as worthy. This article introduces “organizational consolidation”: the degree to which ascriptive statuses—race, gender, class—align with the context-specific criteria that actors use when evaluating one another. Building on relational inequality theory and inhabited institutionalism, we argue that organizational [Read More…]
October 13, 2026
Legacy Imprints and Categorisation Shifts: How Interpretations of Job Demands and Resources Change in Abrupt Transitions to Virtual Work
What happens when workers experience abrupt transitions to virtual working? Drawing on interviews with employees who were unexpectedly shifted to virtual work overnight, we show that people carry legacy imprints: expectations from face-to-face settings that shape how they initially classify job features as demands or resources. When lived experience in the virtual context contradicts these [Read More…]
October 2, 2026
Understanding Translation and Cultural Meaning-Making in Cross-Language Qualitative Research: Methodological Innovations and Challenges
Objective This article explores that translation in cross‐language qualitative research is not merely a technical procedure applied to already‐collected data but an interpretive, ethical, relational, and power‐influenced practice that shapes every stage of knowledge production. It establishes how culturally and religiously embedded concepts resist adequate interpreting into English academic prose, and it offers methodological strategies [Read More…]
October 2, 2026
Sustainable global careers: the role of career adaptability and cultural difference in expatriate health, happiness, and productivity
This study examines how career adaptability relates to career sustainability among expatriates and whether cultural differences between home and host countries moderate these relationships. Drawing on sustainable career theory, we conceptualise career sustainability through three interrelated indicators: health, happiness, and productivity. Given sustainable career theory’s emphasis on agency, we draw on career construction theory to [Read More…]
October 2, 2026
Family Economic Security after the COVID-19 Outbreak: Unions, Work-Life Balance Policies and Employment Outcomes
Unionization has been associated with benefits to workers, including higher wages compared to non-unionized workers and greater access to family-friendly work arrangements. In this paper, we consider another potential benefit of union representation by examining whether and how unions protected working parents from employment losses during the pandemic. The analysis draws on responses to a [Read More…]
October 2, 2026
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