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Joan Woodward: A style fit for the task

Sandra Dawson

Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward

ISBN: 978-1-84950-984-8, eISBN: 978-1-84950-985-5

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 8 July 2010

Abstract

Imperial College in 1969 looked like a man's world; it was certainly difficult to locate a ladies’ room which was not apparently hastily constructed in a tight space as an afterthought to a great design. Yet I joined a powerhouse of women. Joan Woodward had already tempted Dorothy Wedderburn from Cambridge and together they had secured large sums of research monies from the Research Councils, Fords, Pilkingtons, ICI, the Post Office, the Coal Board, government departments, and other supporters who were each captivated by the promise of the work and rare combination of intellectual strength and practical concerns of its leader. With research funds flowing in abundance, driving passions to explore further the relationship between structure, technology, and performance, and very few specific commitments, Joan and Dorothy set about recruiting what was to be one of the largest groups of young researchers in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s.

Citation

Dawson, S. (2010), "Joan Woodward: A style fit for the task", Phillips, N., Sewell, G. and Griffiths, D. (Ed.) Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 29), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029008

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