Madeline Toubiana

About

Madeline Toubiana is Assistant Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Alberta. She is also a research fellow of the Community Impact Research Program at Queen’s University, and the associate director of the Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility.

She studies what stalls and supports social change and innovation. More specifically, she examines the role of emotions, institutional processes, and stigmatization in influencing the dynamics of social change. While she explores change processes in large organizations and institutions, like in academia, most of her research examines how marginalized and/or stigmatized actors can be better included in change processes, and what might support them in doing so. As such, some of her previous and current work has studied social enterprises, the prison system, the sex trade, unemployment, non-profit organizations, and taxi-driving. Her most recent work has begun to explore the role of entrepreneurship in supporting destigmatization and social change for individuals facing extreme stigma and discrimination.

She is on the editorial review board for Academy of Management Journal and Organization Studies.

Research

Selected Publications

Books

Zietsma, C., Toubiana, M., Voronov, M., & Roberts, A. E. (2019) Emotions in Organization Theory. Cambridge University Press.

Peer-reviewed journals

Ruebottom, T. Voronov, M., Buchanan, S., and Toubiana, M. (conditionally accepted) Voyeuristic businesses: The impact of transgression on value creation. Academy of Management Review.

Lounsbury, M., Steele, C., Wang, M., and Toubiana, M. (forthcoming) New Directions in the study of institutional logics: from tools to phenomena. Annual Review of Sociology.

Phung, K., Buchanan, S., Toubiana, M., Ruebottom, T., and Turchick-Hakak, L. (forthcoming). When stigma doesn’t transfer: Stigma deflection and occupational stratification in the sharing economy. Journal of Management Studies.

Ruebottom, T. and Toubiana, M. (forthcoming) Constraints and opportunities of stigma: Entrepreneurial emancipation in the sex industry. Academy of Management Journal.

Toubiana, M. (forthcoming) Once in orange, always in orange?  Identity paralysis and the enduring influence of institutional logics on identity. Academy of Management Journal.

Zhang, R., Toubiana, M. Wang, M., Ruebottom, T., and Greenwood, R. (forthcoming) Beyond levels: Advancing research on stigma and its management. Academy of Management Annals.

Steele, C.W.J., Hannigan, T.R., Glaser, V.L., Toubiana, M., & Gehman, J. (2020) Macrofoundations: Exploring the institutionally situated nature of activity. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 68: 1-16

Steele, C., Toubiana, M. and Greenwood, R. (2020). Why worry? Celebrating and reformulating “integrative institutionalism”. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 65B, 353-370.

Zietsma, C., and Toubiana, M. (2018). The Constitutive, the energetic and the valuable: Exploring the impact and importance of studying emotions. Organization Studies, 39, 427-443.

Toubiana, M., Greenwood, R., and Zietsma, C. (2017). Beyond ethos: Outlining an alternate trajectory for emotional competence and investment. Academy of Management Review, 42, 551-556.

Toubiana, M., Oliver, C. and Bradshaw, P. (2017) Beyond differentiation and integration: The challenges of managing internal complexity in federations. Organization Studies, 38, 1013-1037.

Toubiana, M., and Zietsma, C. (2017) The message is on the wall: Emotions, social media, and the dynamics of institutional complexity. Academy of Management Journal, 60, 922-953. *SSRN top ten download for new paper in emotions and cognition April 2016-June 2016.

Toubiana, M. (2014) Business pedagogy for social justice? An exploratory investigation of business faculty perspectives of social justice in business education. Management Learning, 45 (1), 81 – 102.

Toubiana, M., and Yair, G. (2012). The salvation of meaning in Peter Drucker's oeuvre. Journal of Management History, 18(2): 178 - 199.