The Shifting Landscape of LGBT Organizational Research

Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson

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Abstract: Over the past generation, sexual minorities?particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons?have gained increased visibility in the public arena. Yet organizational research has lagged behind in recognizing and studying this category of organizational members. This article offers a critical review of this growing body of research. More specifically, we identify and discuss four dominant scholarly frames that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a ?medical abnormality,? ?deviant social role,? ?collective identity,? and ?social distinctiveness? view of sexual minorities. We argue that these frames have profoundly shaped the scope and range of organizational scholarship devoted to sexual minorities by showing that scholars using such contrasted frames have been drawn to very different research questions with respect to sexual minorities. We document and discuss the main and contrasted questions asked within each of these frames and show how they have both enabled and constrained LGBT organizational research. We conclude by calling for more attention to the frames organizational scholars adopt when studying sexual minorities, but also for more research on both minority and majority sexual orientations in organizations.

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