Plugging Knowledge Ambiguity: How Class Background Shapes Career Progression in Elite Occupations - Prof Sam Friedman (London School of Economics)

Parallel Stream A: ELITES & ACCESS (Corinna Frey-Heger)
• ‘Aleatoric leader selection: Using lotteries to prevent in-group favoritism in leadership teams’ (Malte Doehne)
• ‘Fundraising as friendraising. The exclusive underpinnings of elite organizations’ (Anne Monier)
• All aboard? Discretionary work by agents of access (Rose Ntondumu Bote)

Parallel Stream B: GENDER INEQUALITIES (John Amis)
• ‘Setting a gendered bar: Early gender bias on the quality of women who persist’ (Jacqueline N. Lane)
• ‘ 'We have to buy my space shirts in the boy's section!' A business ethics approach to gendered toy marketing’ (Rebecca Whiting)
• ‘An agenda for researching gender inequalities in under-researched context’ (Chidozie Umeh)

Parallel Stream C: DIGITAL DIVIDES (Kamal Munir)
• ‘Resilience at the base of the pyramid: Digitization and entrepreneurial response to crisis in Indian micro-ventures’ (Aparajita Agarwal)
• ‘Where rookies prevail: Age-based earnings differential in a digital legal field’ (Yao Yao)
• ‘The Game of Flying Pigs’ (Yingqin Zheng)

09:00 to 10:30 CEST

Parallel Stream A: RACISM AND SOCIETAL CONFLICT (Corinna Frey-Heger)
• ‘Born Dutch yet not Being Dutch: Intergenerational accumulation of disadvantage for migrants in the Netherlands’ (Khizran Zehra)
• ‘Interlocations between the concepts of social and subject social actor and the reflections in discussions about black Brazilian women’ (Taís Colling)
• ‘Organizing in different contexts of societal conflict: The interplay between inequality and animosity’ (Pieter de Wit)

Parallel Stream B: CLASS WORK AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES (John Amis)
• ‘Medical Students doing ‘Class Work’ to Cope: How Inequalities of Capital and Class are Institutionalised in the UK Medical Profession’ (Louise Ashley)
• ‘The ‘last bell’ for some, ‘zoom call’ for the others: Using the school from home practice to understand the linkage between organizational actions and social inequalities’ (Divya Tyagi)
• ‘The social magic of a collections meritocracy: institutional distinction classed and unclassed in UK museum work’ (Samantha L. Evans)

Parallel Stream C: INSTITUTIONS AND LOCAL INEQUALITIES (Kamal Munir)
• ‘How do collective organizations link farmers with markets? An institutional logics perspective’ (Gopi Sankar Gopikuttan)
• ‘Inequality in profit sharing, threat of dispossession and capability deprivation in rural India’ (Rajesh Mokale)
• ‘The influence of institutional work on authenticity and social inequality: The case of Peruvian cuisines in postcolonial times’ (Belinda Zakrzewski)

Break: 10:30 to 11:00 CEST

11:00 to 12:30 CEST

Parallel Stream A: INEQUALITY IN HR PRACTICE (Corinna Frey-Heger)
• ‘Racial inequality in employee selection: The effect of employment and diversity practices on selection decisions’ (Lionel Paolella)
• ‘Dis/ableism in the Workplace: An Outline for a Critical Institutional Research Program’ (Daniel Semper)

Parallel Stream B: CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON (IN)EQUALITY (John Amis)
• ‘The moderating role of organizational culture on the relationship between executives' perceived social class origin and entrepreneurial orientation’ (Angela Kipf)
• ‘The impact of national culture on firm gender diversity’ (Tatiana M. Lluent)
• ‘It takes two to tango: Firms’ cultural orientation and job seekers’ identity as antecedents of selection and hiring’ (Paul Gouvard)

Parallel Stream C: WORKPLACE INEQUALITIES (Kamal Munir)
• ‘Temporary employment, precarity trap in low-paying jobs, and wage inequality’ (Halil Sabanci)
• ‘The stakeholder capitalism: Organizations’ capabilities promoting individuals’ freedom’ (Lucas A. Lauriano)

One person from each stream will help us to critically reflect on our work within each session. This will lead on to discussion of ideas that we have heard, future work, and so on.