David L. Collinson

This entry outlines the work and contributions of David L. Collinson, UK-based scholar of gender, organizations and management. His range of work on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization is vast and variegated, with primary interests in: leadership and followership dialectics; power, identities and insecurities; gender, men and masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy and resistance; humour in organizations; and positivity and Prozac leadership. In particular, Collinson has focused much of his academic work on two related subject areas—leadership, and gender, men and masculinities, thus bridging critical leadership studies and critical studies on men and masculinities. He has worked creatively across dualities, bridging materialism and poststructuralism, individuals and collectivities, and work life and identity, as summated in the concept of cultural discursive practices.