The entrepreneurial activity of Enrico Mattei, who headed the Italian state oil company AGIP (later ENI) from 1945 to 1962, laid the groundwork for the company's growth during the 1950s and 1960s. Mattei relied on a group of knowledgeable specialists, who were equipped with a complex set of...

This dissertation advances the claim that the most durable barriers to women in the workplace are largely symbolic and embedded in the gendered cultures of organizations. It argues that the hegemonic masculinity of the oil industry is expressed through four mechanisms or processes; the myth of...