Attending to Implicit Bias as a Way to Move Beyond Negative Stereotyping in GSE
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Attending to Implicit Bias as a Way to Move Beyond Negative Stereotyping in GSE. / Matthiesen, Stina; Bjorn, Pernille; Trillingsgaard, Claus.
ICGSE '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 22-32.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Attending to Implicit Bias as a Way to Move Beyond Negative Stereotyping in GSE
AU - Matthiesen, Stina
AU - Bjorn, Pernille
AU - Trillingsgaard, Claus
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Despite the prevalence of global software Engineering (GSE), many companies continuously struggle to collaborate across geographical distance, nationalities, and languages. Prior research documents how the use of national cultural differences as an argument for failed collaboration is common amongst people working in GSE, which has made IT companies blind to the fundamental challenges of GSE work emerging upon the conditions for the actual conduct of work and practices undertaken by human actors. Based on an interventionist ethnographic study conducted within a Danish IT company, we present the results of attending to implicit bias as an approach to combat pervasive practices that deploy static cultural narratives and negative stereotypes in GSE. We find that implicit bias is a useful grip for moving discussions beyond negative cultural rhetoric and to reconsider the actual and locally situated collaboration-related problems that exist within organizations involved in GSE.
AB - Despite the prevalence of global software Engineering (GSE), many companies continuously struggle to collaborate across geographical distance, nationalities, and languages. Prior research documents how the use of national cultural differences as an argument for failed collaboration is common amongst people working in GSE, which has made IT companies blind to the fundamental challenges of GSE work emerging upon the conditions for the actual conduct of work and practices undertaken by human actors. Based on an interventionist ethnographic study conducted within a Danish IT company, we present the results of attending to implicit bias as an approach to combat pervasive practices that deploy static cultural narratives and negative stereotypes in GSE. We find that implicit bias is a useful grip for moving discussions beyond negative cultural rhetoric and to reconsider the actual and locally situated collaboration-related problems that exist within organizations involved in GSE.
U2 - 10.1145/3372787.3390432
DO - 10.1145/3372787.3390432
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 22
EP - 32
BT - ICGSE '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering - ICGSE '20
Y2 - 5 October 2020 through 6 October 2020
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