Sub-theme 34: Inequality, Institutions, and Organizations

Convenors:
John M. Amis, University of Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom
Johanna Mair, Hertie School, Germany
Kamal A. Munir, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.3.03
Welcome & Keynote by David Stark
Chair: Johanna Mair, Kamal A. Munir & John M. Amis
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: New Realities and Challenging Situations - Room: TC.3.03
Chair: John M. Amis
Jamie J. Ladge
Free to me be me? Evolving gender expression and the dynamic interplay between authenticity and the desire to be accepted at work
Ralph Hamann, Jenny Soderbergh, Annika Surmeier, Christine Fyvie, Thanyani Ramarumo, Mandy Rapson, Ashley Newell and Nadia Sitas
Bridging islands: Emergent groups responding to inequality in a crisis
Sophie Thunus and Willem Standaert
Suddenly visible: Meetings as witnesses and makers of gendered organizations
Parallel Stream B: Social Media - Room: D2.0.374
Chair: Johanna Mair
Yasser Rahrovani
Too exclusive or too inclusive? Managing social media platforms in minority organizations
Gerhard Schnyder and Kyoungmi Kim
Managing inequalities with WhatsApp: A sociolinguistic approach to emergence-based institutionalisation of a financial inclusion programme
Lauren McCarthy and Sarah Glozer
The carnivalesque and networked affect: Exploring #MeToo and the persistence of inequality in organisations
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Race and Gender Experienced - Room: TC.3.03
Chair: Kamal A. Munir
Regine Bendl and Nasima M.H. Carrim
Identity work of Black African female employees and managers in white Western private organizations in South Africa and Austria – Aspects of gender equality and decolonization
Daniela Aliberti, Rita Bissola and Barbara Imperatori
What is the actual role of business in fighting inequality? The institutional work of professionals to confront racism in the branches of US professional service firms
Yvonne Lardner and Neil Stott
Organisational leadership and race: Exploring the Black experience
Parallel Stream B: Reproducing and Breaking Inequality - Room: D2.0.374
Chair: John M. Amis
Celina McEwen, Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes
Reproducing inequalities through the repressive equality regimes of inclusion and equity work
Elodie Dessy, Benjamin Huybrechts and Danielle Logue
Unequal pathways to addressing inequality: Divergent boundary work strategies in Belgian philanthropy
Kylie Heales, Luciano Barin Cruz and Charlene Zietsma
Navigating intersectional inequalities: Using entrepreneurial activities for positive economic outcomes
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Development and Entrepreneurship - Room: TC.3.03
Chair: Kamal A. Munir
Venus Sharma, John M. Amis and Royston Greenwood
Societal-level institutional change and its consequences – The case of small farmers in India and private capital in international development
S.M. Musa, Katrin M. Smolka and Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens
How necessity entrepreneurship shapes social structure and inclusion: An ethnographic account from Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp
Ketan Goswami and Janice Byrne
Structural inequalities and entrepreneurship: A systematic, cross-disciplinary review
Parallel Stream B: Inside Professional Service Organisations - Room: D2.0.374
Chair: Johanna Mair
Edward J. Carberry
The challenges of creating more equitable workplaces: Employee ownership as a platform for institutional change in professional service firms
Sabina Keston-Siebert and Barbara Czarniawska
Where inequality is a virtue: Recruitment and selection in secret service organizations
Yvette Taminiau and Christine Teelken
Reconceptualizing the ideal professional: Gendered career progress in interaction between organizational and individual perceptions, based on a comparison between four professional sectors
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Critical Voices - Room: TC.3.03
Chair: Johanna Mair
Anna Laura Hidegh and Henriett Primecz
The dialectics of postsocialist gender fatigue
Seray Ergene, Bobby Banerjee and Erim Ergene
Environmental racism and climate (in)justice in the Anthropocene: Addressing the silences and erasures in management and organization studies
Chidozie Umeh, Ashique Ali Jhatial, Eric Pezet, James Wallace and Nelarine Cornelius
A Foucauldian exploration of human resource management practices in post-colonial, global-south contexts
Parallel Stream B: Science, Academia and Pedagogy - Room: D2.0.374
Chair: Kamal A. Munir
David Goodman
Pedagogy as performance: Constructing inequality in the Spanish Primo de Rivera dictatorship, 1923–1930
Marjana Johansson, Claudine Gaibrois and Rebecca Piekkari
Gendered practices in scientific knowledge production: The case of language-sensitive research in international business
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Understanding Disability - Room: TC.3.03
Chair: Johanna Mair
Greta Elisabetta Brizio and Chiara Paolino
Disability and gender in social activism: Identity work in disabled women movements in Italy
Anita Starzyk and Jana Bauer
Caring for the voices of disabled employees: Enabling employee voice to counter anti-ableism in organizations
Parallel Stream B: Future of Work - Room: D2.0.374
Chair: John A. Amis
Elena Ressi, Silvana Weiss and Renate Ortlieb
Who decides on working from home? Regulations, frames and employees’ voice
Amélie Boutinot, Karim Ben Slimane and Sophie Michel
Exploring the different forms of resistance to an oppressive institutional order: The tale of French bike-couriers facing food delivery platforms
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.3.03
Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Chair: Johanna Mair, Kamal A. Munir & John M. Amis