Making Diversity Research Matter for Social Change: New Conversations Beyond the Firm

Janssens, Maddy; Zanoni, Patrizia

doi:10.1177/26317877211004603

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“…In organization theory, there has been a long tradition of critical management as well as feminist scholarship that challenges the legitimacy of managerial power (e.g., Benschop, 2021;Collinson, 2020;Courpasson et al, 2021;Cutcher et al, 2020;Janssens & Zanoni, 2021). Scientific activism has also played a long-standing role in research on multistakeholder partnerships where some scholars have produced academic knowledge aimed at combining knowledge production with intervention in stakeholder negotiations (e.g., Gray, 2008).…”

Section: The Co-creation Model Of Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impactful Theory: Pathways to Mattering

Reinecke

Boxenbaum

Gehman

2022

Organization Theory

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Organization Theory is an academic journal dedicated to the development and dissemination of novel theory in the domain of organizational scholarship. At the same time, an increasing chorus of organizational scholars have advocated for “impact”—broadly defined as producing societal benefit beyond the realm of academia. In this editorial, we question the implicit dichotomy between theory, on the one hand, and impact, on the other, and critically explore the notion of impactful theory. Rather than seeing theory as inherently opposed to impact, we celebrate and elucidate theory as a meaningful way to achieve impact. Specifically, we unpack the apparent oxymoron of impactful theory, and articulate seven distinct pathways whereby theory can be impactful. We close by outlining several critical questions, both for individual scholars and our collective community, as well as future research directions.

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Section: The Co-creation Model Of Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impactful Theory: Pathways to Mattering

Reinecke

Boxenbaum

Gehman

2022

Organization Theory

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“…Of pivotal importance here is a form of less visible diversity which has traditionally not received as much attention in the management literature as others: social class (Kish‐Gephart and Campbell, 2015; Romani et al, 2021; Savage, 2015; Zanoni et al, 2010). While socio‐political and even educational scholars have paid careful attention to class, the lesser attention in management research is perhaps unsurprising: diversity management as a discipline has been often criticized (Janssens and Zanoni, 2021; Kelly and Dobbin, 1998; Van Dijk et al, 2012) for its tendency to depoliticize diversity and inclusion by reframing it as a ‘business’ rather than as a normative or civil rights case. Indeed, one criticism of the diversity management literature is that it is blind to the structural advantages of class and to how class intersects with other individual characteristics within inequality regimes (Acker, 2006; Munir, 2020).…”

Section: Five New Avenues For Diversity Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, because of the combination of continuing long trends (e.g., globalization) and new emerging developments (e.g., platform economy), a growing share of economic activity takes place across and outside traditional organizational boundaries. Therefore, we call for organizational‐level diversity research that develops and improves our understanding of how these increasingly important contexts (Janssens and Zanoni, 2021) relate to diversity and inequality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, global value chains (GVCs), which stretch across different countries and occupational settings, each with their own regulatory frameworks and work practices, typically seek to exploit structural inequalities (e.g., wage costs, regulatory burdens) across countries. Indeed, GVCs are predicated on a highly unequal division of labour whereby certain participants (generally in the Global South) are exploited, silenced, and subjected to precarious terms and conditions and effectively are treated as a source of value for the benefit of other participants in the chain (Janssens and Zanoni, 2021; Zanoni et al, 2010). This can result in tragic events, such as the Rana Plaza disaster (Chowdhury, 2017; Reinecke and Donaghey, 2015, 2021) as well as in the everyday reproduction of patterns of gender, racial, and class discrimination.…”

Section: Propelling Research On Diversity In Management Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Collectively, they contribute to our understanding of the complex ways in which diversity operates at multiple organizational levels, as captured by a variety of research methodologies and research settings. To complement several excellent reviews of diversity research in recent years (e.g., Janssens and Zanoni, 2021; Roberson, 2019; Roberson and Ryan, 2017), we chose to highlight in this introduction a number of core thematic research avenues that emerged out of the set of studies accepted for publication in this special issue: (1) Addressing the interplay between diversity and inequality; (2) Bringing in diversity context and diversity‐related ideologies; (3) Digging deeper into deep‐level diversity; (4) Incorporating the role of large‐scale demographic and technological shifts; and (5) Uncovering additional mechanisms and conditions through which diversity operates. In doing so, we hope to motivate scholars to engage in novel research on these important topics.…”

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Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions

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Muzio

Sarala

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J Management Studies

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In this introductory article for the special issue of Journal of Management Studies, entitled 'Diversity perspective in management: Towards more complex conceptualizations of diversity in management studies', we highlight thematic research avenues that emerged out of the set of studies accepted for publication. Recognizing that even a set of articles as diverse as those in this special issue cannot realistically represent all new research directions in a field, we identify developing areas in diversity research and call out additional avenues for research. We hope our commentary inspires scholars to unveil new understandings of how diversity affects our organizational and work lives and can contribute to making the world a better place.

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Making Diversity Research Matter for Social Change: New Conversations Beyond the Firm

Cited by 11 publications

References 109 publications

Impactful Theory: Pathways to Mattering

Impactful Theory: Pathways to Mattering

Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions

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