Organization studies of inequality, with and beyond Piketty

Dunne, Stephen; Grady, Jo; Weir, Kenneth

doi:10.1177/1350508417714535

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“…Inequality is propagated not just by giving more resources to CEOs but also by giving less to lower level employees. The pressure to reduce labor costs by whatever means necessary, the push to eliminate defined‐benefit pension plans, and “the imperative to do more with less” result in the employers' inability to honor their side of various commitments made to lower level employees (Dunne et al, 2018).…”

Section: Internal Cgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate governance and wealth and income inequality

Brou

Chatterjee

Coakley

et al. 2021

Corporate Governance

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Research Question/Issue: There has been growing concern about rising social inequality and its effects on general well-being and the polity. Much of this rise can be traced to changes in the manner in which corporations or firms are governed and how this impacts on income and wealth dispersion. This study systematically reviews the most recent literature on external and internal corporate governance (CG) that deals with the issue of income and wealth inequality.Research Findings/Insights: External mechanisms such as institutional regime (defined in terms of varieties of capitalism-liberal or coordinated markets) and financialization reveal important insights, often implicitly, into what makes or sustains inequality. The rise of the platform business model raises explicit concerns about

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Section: Internal Cgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate governance and wealth and income inequality

Brou

Chatterjee

Coakley

et al. 2021

Corporate Governance

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“…The limitations of critical diversity research have become particularly apparent in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. While the crisis triggered a surge in research on the role of organizations in sustaining and exacerbating societal inequality (Amis, Mair, & Munir, 2020; Bapuji, Ertug, & Shaw, 2020; Dunne, Grady, & Weir, 2018) and postcapitalist, alternative organizing for social justice (Barin‐Cruz, Aquino Alves, & Delbridge, 2017; Zanoni, Contu, Healy, & Mir, 2017), it did not substantially affect critical diversity research. We still miss a conceptual vocabulary for setting up an emancipatory social justice agenda amidst and beyond capitalism (Holck, 2018a, 2018b; Janssens & Zanoni, forthcoming).…”

Section: The Rise Of Diversity and The Demise Of Classmentioning

confidence: 99%

Radicalizing diversity (research): Time to resume talking about class

Romani

Zanoni

Holck

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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In this editorial, we plea for radicalizing diversity research by re‐engaging with the notion of class. We argue that theories of class, which are today seldom used in critical diversity research, have the potential to conceptualize the relationship between difference and power in ways that go beyond the current focus on equality within capitalist organizations. Theories of class radicalize diversity research by providing a conceptual vocabulary to ground the critique of diversity in the critique of capitalism. To highlight this potential, we first reconstruct the ideological historical context of the 1980s in which diversity research emerged, re‐embedding it in a broader political project to restructure the economy, work and society as a whole. We then present four main uses of the concept of class in management and organization studies and the theoretical traditions that underpin them. We go on to introduce the four contributions to this Special Section, illustrating how class, variously understood, can inform critical understandings of diversity. We conclude by leveraging class within four strategies for more radical diversity scholarship: classing workers, occupations, and workplaces; classing diversity; classing meritocracy; and classing struggles for social justice.

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“…Albert Einstein Inequality is a personal experience (Dorling, 2015;Payne, 2017). It is at the core of individuals' daily interactionsin how they live, think, lead and organize work (Acker, 2006;Dorling, 2015;Dunne et al, 2017;Payne, 2017). Those who face inequalities must deal with its lingering effects throughout their lives, in terms of (for example) their performance at and psychology of work, access to education/health care and response to a variety of physical and mental threats (Kish- Gephart and Campell, 2015;Payne, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Lived experiences of inequalities in the USA: a sense-making perspective

Khilji

2021

EDI

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PurposeInequality is an important organizational phenomenon. Scholars have argued that inequalities persistently dwell in the flow of our lives and have a lingering impact. Yet, despite such compelling evidence, research has overlooked how individuals make sense of the inequalities they face inside and outside the organizations. The purpose of this paper was to address these gaps and capture its complexity on individual lived experiences with inequalities.Design/methodology/approachThe present study used Seidman's adapted 2-interview strategy to collect the data. The first interview placed the participant's life history at the center, allowing the participant to share their childhood and adulthood experiences with inequalities inside and outside the organizations. The second interview focused on the concrete details of the participant's present lived experience and their reflections on the meaning of their experiences. In total, the present study relied on 26 interviews with 13 participants.FindingsLived experiences provided an extended-time view and allowed the researcher to explore how study participants perceived, coped and were shaped by inequalities throughout their lives. In addition, the sense-making perspective offered a new lens to study inequalities. Findings underscore the racial, class and gendered dynamics within organizations supporting their intersectional impact and acknowledge the pre-existing societal norms that condition individual actions and choices.Originality/valueThe study presents an “engaged” view of inequality to highlight it as a cumulative and complex experience. The findings help us recognize that participants are immersed in their specific contexts to act, negotiate, empower and make decisions under real-life pressures. Overall, the study pushes the boundaries of inequality research beyond its current episodic treatment.

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Organization studies of inequality, with and beyond Piketty

Cited by 6 publications

References 125 publications

Corporate governance and wealth and income inequality

Corporate governance and wealth and income inequality

Radicalizing diversity (research): Time to resume talking about class

Lived experiences of inequalities in the USA: a sense-making perspective

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