Stirling Management School

Stirling Institute for Socio-Management

Autumn semester
HRMP01 Work, Employment and Society
BUA03/93 Organizational Behaviour and Analysis

Spring semester
BUA924 Managing Organizations
HRMP14 International Human Resource Management

Doris Ruth Eikhof's research interest include creative industries, social theories in organisation studies, changing forms of work and organisation, work life-boundaries and organizations and lifestyles. Current research projects focus on the creative industries and on women’s work and include a Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with the macrobert arts centre.

Doris has published in international and German books and journals, including Journal of Organizational Behavior and Employee Relations. She is co-editor of 'Work less, live more? Critical Analyses of the Work-Life Relationship' (Palgrave 2008) and of an Employee Relations special issue on work-life balance (2007, Vol. 29:4).

Together with Dr. Juliette Summers, Doris has convened a special stream on Women's Work for the International Labour Process Conference 2008 in Dublin. She has also convened sub-themes at the EGOS Colloquium 2007 in Vienna and the International Labour Process Conference 2006 in London.

Doris is Research Associate of the Instutite for Nonprofit Management, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria, and the Scottish Centre for Employment Research, University of Strathclyde.

Journal articles

Haunschild, A. and Eikhof, D.R. (2009) ‘From HRM to employment rules and lifestyles. Theory development through qualitative case study research into the creative industries’, Zeitschrift für Personalforschung – German Journal of Human Resource Research, 23(2), 107-124.

Eikhof, D.R. and Haunschild, A. (2007) 'For art's sake! Artistic and economic logics in creative production', Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 28:5, 523-38.

Eikhof, D.R., Warhurst, C. and Haunschild, A. (2007) 'What work, what life, what balance? Critical reflections on the work-life balance debate', Employee Relations, Vol. 29:4, 325-33.

Eikhof, D.R. and Haunschild, A. (2006) 'Lifestyle meets market. Bohemian entrepreneurs in creative industries', Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 13:3, 234-241.

Books

Kaiser, S., Ringlstetter, M., Pina e Cunha, M., and Eikhof, D.R. (eds)(forthcoming 2010) Creating balance? International perspectives on the work-life integration of professionals, Berlin: Springer.

Warhurst, C., Eikhof, D.R., and Haunschild, A. (eds) (2008) Work less, live more? Critical analyses of the work-life relationship, Palgrave Macmillan.

Selected book chapters

Eikhof, D.R. (2010) ‘The logics of art: analysing theatre as a cultural field’, in B. Townley and N. Beech (eds), Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Eikhof, D.R. (2009) 'Does Hamlet have to be naked? Creativity between tradition and innovation in German theatres', in P. Jeffcutt and A. Pratt (eds) Creativity and innovation in the cultural economy, London: Routledge.

Eikhof, D.R., and Haunschild, A. (2009) 'Bringing creativity to market. Actors as self-employeed employees', in A. McKinlay and C. Smith (eds) Creative Labour.  Working in the creative industries, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Warhurst, C., Eikhof, D.R., and Haunschild, A. (2008) 'Out of balance or just out of bounds? Analysing the relationship between work and life', in C. Warhurst, D.R. Eikhof and A. Haunschild (eds) Work less, live more? Critical analyses of the work-life relationship, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.