School of Business

BA Hons (York)

MA (Royal Roads)

PhD (Saint Mary’s)

Segarra, P. & Williams, K.S. (in-press). Calling in: Mental health in management education and academia. Management Learning.

Williams, K.S. (2024). Maida Herman Solomon (1891-1988): An invisible forerunner in the field of clinical social work. Journal of Management History. DOI: 10.1108/JMH-06-2024-0083.

Weigand, H., Williams, K.S. Okoroafor, S., Ganuelas Weigand, E. & Liuzzo, G. (2024). Does kindness matter? Discourses on kindness in the context of the pandemic, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. DOI: 10.1108/QROM-12-2023-2640

Williams, K.S. (2024). Understanding youth empowerment: A youth participatory action research approach, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. DOI: 10.1108/QROM-07-2023-2561

Williams, K.S. (2023). Elizabeth Gaskell: An overlooked political economist and proto theorist in the field of industrial relations, Gender, Work & Organization, (31)2, p. 576-593.

Winham, N., Williams, K.S., Jamjoom, L.A., Hendricks, K., Weigand, H. & Deal, N. (2023). Creating good knowledge together: Heartful-communal storytelling at the intersection of caregiving and academia. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal. doi: 10.1108/EDI-08-2022-0207

Boncori, I. & Williams, K.S. (2023). Reclaiming space in family histories: Impressionistic memory work as a feminist approach to historiography and storytelling, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. 18(5), p. 20-28.

Williams, K.S., Weigand, H., Okoroafor, S., Liuzzo, G. & Ganuelas Weigand, E. (2023). Kindness informed allyship praxis. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal. (42)9, p. 1-15.

Williams, K.S. (2023). Disrupting the historic narrative: Writing my subjective self into the story of French-Canadian feminist icon, Madeleine Parent (1918-2012). In A.J. Mills and N. Deal (Eds.), A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling, Volume 4: History and Business Storytelling. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811273513_0004

Williams, K.S. (2023). Re-storying Canadian entrepreneur and civil rights leader, Viola Desmond (1914-1965): A polemic of the heart. In J. Helms Mills and A. Thurlow (Eds.), A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling, Volume 2: Diversity and Business Storytelling. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811273476_0006

Williams, K.S. (2022). Historical Female Management Theorists: Frances Perkins, Hallie Flanagan, Madeleine Parent, Viola Desmond. Bingley: Emerald.

Williams, K.S. & Weigand, H. (2022). Patterns and possibilities: Exploring the meaning of kindness. In M. Thomason (Ed.), Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies. Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-157-020221001

Williams, K.S. (2022). Be a ‘good girl’: The durability and enigmatic nature of benevolent sexism as a form of performative kindness. In M. Thomason (Ed.), Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies. Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-157-020221011

Williams, K.S. (2021). Introducing ficto-feminism: A non-fiction, fictitious conversation with Hallie Flanagan, director of the Federal Theater Project (1935-1939). Qualitative Research Journal, (21)3, p. 244-257.

Mills, A.J. & Williams, K.S. (2021). Feminist Frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change. Business History, (66)1, P. 14-28.

Williams, K.S. (2020). Finding Viola: The untrue, true story of a groundbreaking female African Nova Scotian entrepreneur. Culture and Organization, (27)5, p. 365-385.

Williams, K.S. (2020). Feminist critical historiography: Undoing history-A conceptual model. In K. Bruce (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118491.00020

Williams, K.S. & Mills, A.J. (2019). Discursive writing, representations of the past and gender: Writing Frances Perkins out of management and organizational leadership. In R. McMurray, A. Pullen (Eds.), Beyond Rationality in Organization and Management. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279652

Williams, K.S. (2019). Unsociable speech: Critical discourses on cyber incivility from inside the non-profit sector in Canada. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, (15)3, p. 349-369.

Williams, K.S. & Mills, A.J. (2019). The problem with women: A feminist interrogation of management textbooks. Management & Organizational History, (14)2, p. 148-166.

Williams, K.S. (2019). Feminist critical historiography: Undoing history-A conceptual model. Workplace Review, October 2019, p. 54-67.

Williams, K.S. & Mills, A.J. (2018). Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theater: A critical undoing of management history. Journal of Management History, (24)3, p. 282-299.

Williams, K.S. & Helms Mills, J. (2018). The study of a global NGO and the making of an ideal volunteer. Workplace Review, April 2018, p. 57-82.

Williams, K.S. & Mills, A.J. (2017). Frances Perkins: Gender, context and history in the neglect of a management theorist. Journal of Management History, (23)1, p. 32-50.

Kristin S. Williams, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Director of the FC Manning School of Business at Acadia University and an Associate Professor in Management. Acadia University is one of the oldest and most respected liberal arts universities in Canada. Dr. Williams holds a Visiting Scholar appointment at the University of Eastern Finland (in Innovation Management) and is the Founder, Managing Director and Principal Researcher at Prudentia Institute: Youth Knowledge Exchange. Prudentia is a registered charity and home to the award-winning Student Research Lab, where students act as peer researchers, using participatory action research to explore the pressing issues facing youth today. Prior to entering academia full time, Dr. Williams spent 25 years in executive leadership roles, most recently with Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia SPCA. Following her PhD in Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University she served as Historian in Residence with the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University while also completing a Postdoc with the MITACS Accelerate Entrepreneur program (a program which supported the launch and growth of Prudentia Institute). Dr. Williams has held several editorial appointments with journal editorial boards, special issues and edited books. She is currently co-editor in chief at the journal of Culture and Organization and a member of the editorial advisory board at the Journal of Management History. Dr. Williams identifies as a polemical feminist engaged in activist writing and narrative methods in critical management studies. Much of her work has focused on uncovering neglected historical female figures, novel theories, and modes of practice in management and organizational studies and management history. Dr. Williams' academic awards include the Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award, the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada Award of Merit, an Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper (Journal of Management History/Emerald Publishing), Best Paper awards from the Atlantic Schools of Business and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, and Emerging Scholar awards from the Academy of Management (Management History Division) and the Harrison McCain Foundation . She is also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal for contributions to Philanthropy and Social Services (youth and education).

Feminist theory and methods, critical historiography, critical management studies, youth participatory action research

BUSI 2733 Organizational Behaviour 1

BUSI 2773 Entrepreneurship & Innovation

BUSI 3483 Business Research (Honours)

BUSI 4553 Venture Creation 1

BUSI 407T and BUSI 408T Honours Thesis 1 & 2