Dr Maree Boyle

B Arts (Hons 1st class), PhD

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School

Program Director, Griffith Business School Honours Program

Contact details for Dr Maree Boyle

Research expertise

  • Organisational change, space and transition
  • Emotions in the workplace
  • Work-life balance  
  • Gender and work
  • Qualitative research methods

Current teaching areas

  • Honours and Research Higher Degree level research methods
  • Organisational behaviour
  • Organisational theory
  • Human resource management
  • Corporate social responsibility

Publications

Book chapters

  • Driedger, M., Sanders, C., Gallois, C., Boyle M., and Santesso, N., 2008, 'Working Together: Women with Musculoskeletal Illnesses Interacting with Health Care Providers', in Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen (Editors) Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives, Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., Toronto.
  • Parry, K. and Boyle, M.V., 2008, in press, 'Autoethnography', in D. Buchanan and A. Bryman (Editors), Handbook of Organizational Research Methods, Sage, London.
  • Boyle, M.V., 2005, 'You wait until you get home: Emotional regions, emotional process work and the role of social support', in C.E.J. Hartel, N.M. Ashkanasy, and W.J. Zerbe (Editors), Emotions in Organizational Behaviour, New York, Lawrence Erlbaum.

Refereed journal articles

  • Andrews, L. and Boyle, M.V., 2008, 'Consumers’ accounts of perceived risk online and the influence of communication sources', Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal,11, 1:59-75.
  • Andrews L., Kiel G., Drennan J., Boyle M. and Weerawardena J., 2007, 'Gender perceptions of experiential value in using Web-based retail channels', European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 41, No 5/6 (June).
  • Boyle, M. and Parry, K.W., 2007, 'Telling the whole story: The case for organizational autoethnography', Culture and Organization, 13, 3:185-190.
  • Rowe, P. and Boyle, M.V., 2005, 'Constraints to organizational learning during major change at a mental health services facility', Journal of Change Management, 5,1: 109-117.
  • Boyle, M.V. and  Roan, A., 2004, 'From Working Man’s Paradise to Women in Business', Philosophy of Management, 4,3:25-34.
  • Rowe, P., Boyce R. and Boyle, M.V., 2004. 'Corporate entrepreneurship in the public health care industry', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 63,2:16-30.
  • Boyle, M.V. and Healy, J., 2003, 'Balancing Mysterium and Onus: doing spiritual work within an emotion-laden organizational context'. Organisation 10 (2):

Refereed conference papers

  • Boyle, M. V., 2007, 'Do as I do: Downward work intensification amongst non-managerial employees', paper presented at ANZAM Conference held at the University of Western Sydney, 4-7  December, 2007.
  • Schembri, S. and Boyle, M.V., 2005, 'Sociospatiality, place and the consumption experience', paper presented at APROS 11 Colloquium, Melbourne, Australia, 4-7 December, 2005.
  • Fisher, R., Boyle, M.V.and Fulop, L., 2004, 'Gender and Emotions at Work: A Reconceptualisation of Organisational Commitment', paper presented at the ANZAM Conference held at the University of Otago, New Zealand, 8-11th December, 2004.
  • Fitzgerald Andrews, L. and Boyle, M.V., 2004, 'The influence of communication sources on perceived risk about purchasing online', paper presented at the 2004 QualIT: The Way Forward Conference held at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, November 24-26, 2004.

Conference papers and abstracts

  • Boyle, M.V., Roan, A., and Strachan, G., 2007, 'Beyond the notion of Balance', paper presented at the 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester, UK, 9 -11 July, 2007, (also Stream Convenors for the Work-Life Intensity Stream).
  • Arnold, S, Boyle, M.V., and Callan, V., 2005, 'Sense-making in Difficult Times: Experiences of Employees in Asia-Pacific Hospitals', paper presented within the Healthcare Division, Academy of Management Meeting, Honolulu, August 2005.
  • Schembri, S. and Boyle, M.V., 2005, 'Considering the Sociospatiality of Place', paper presented at the 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 4-6 July, 2005.
  • Boyle, M.V. and Roan, A., 2005, 'Too wise or too womanly? The paradox of gendered wisdom', paper presented at the 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 4-6 July, 2005.
  • Boyle, M.V. and Rowe, P., 2005, 'The impact of place identity and territoriality during significant organisational change', paper presented within the Virtuality and Emotion Sub-theme 12, 21st EGOS Colloquium, Frei Universität, Berlin, Germany, 30th June – 2nd July, 2005.
  • Ayoko, O.B. and Boyle, M.V., 2005, 'Emotions and Conflict in Virtual Teams: A Qualitative Study', paper presented within the Virtuality and Emotion Sub-theme 12, 21st EGOS Colloquium, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, 30th June – 2nd July, 2005.
  • Roan, A. and Boyle, M., 2004, 'In search of Equity Theory and Practice: Examples from within Australian Organisational Contexts', Boundaries, Bounded, Unbounded: Positions in Organisation Studies - Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) University of Queensland, Brisbane 2- 3 December 2004.
  • Boyle, M.V., 2004, 'Merging from the 100th Floor: network asymmetries during orgaisational transition', paper presented at the EGOS Conference, Ljubljana University, Slovenia, 1st-3rd July, 2004.
  • Boyle, M.V., 2004, 'An exploration of the emotion-space nexus in organizations', paper presented at the 4th EMONET – Emotions in Work Life Conference, Birkbeck College, London, 27-29th June, 2004.
  • Arnold, S., Boyle, M.V. and Callan, V., 2004,  'Espoused Organizational Values and When Actions Speak Louder Than Words'', paper presented at the Annual Academy of Management Conference held in New Orleans, August 2004.
  • Arnold, S. and Boyle, M.V., 2004, 'Value statements; do they have any meaning to employees during a crisis?', paper presented at the International Society for the Study of Organisational Values, New Orleans, August, 2004.
  • Fitzgerald Andrews, L. and Boyle, M.V., 2004,  'The influence of communication sources on perceived risk about purchasing online', paper presented at the 2004 QualIT: The Way Forward Conference held at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, November 24-26, 2004.
  • Boyle, M.V., 2003, 'The gendering of entrepreneurial activity in the hairdressing industry', presented within the Gender, Diversity and Organization Division at the Annual Academy of Management Meeting, 1-6 August, Seattle.
  • Boyle, M.V. and Noordink, P., 2003, 'Managers accounts of intuitive decision-making: a qualitative study', presented at the 5th Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference held in Melbourne, 26-29 June.

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