Fall 2024 Articles, News, and Events

Articles

Check out Patricia Naya, Alessia Contu & Jared Poole new article in the Academy of Management Learning & Education titled: Piercing The Veil Of Colorblindness With An Anti-Racist Identity: Sensemaking, Power, And The Reproduction Of Racialized Socioeconomic Inequality - here: https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2023.0041

Abstract

Business schools, like their universities, reproduce racialized socioeconomic inequality. Few empirical studies examine how such reproduction occurs or is challenged. Recently, some institutions have issued anti-racist proclamations (ARPs) suggesting willingness to dismantle racialized structures. Our qualitative study examines the impact of ARPs on a U.S. business school and its university by asking: How do organizational members’ perceptions of, and responses to, ARPs facilitate the reproduction or challenging of racialized socioeconomic inequality? By analyzing interviews, focus groups, and archival data, we find that ARPs generate positive responses but also face opposition, with some advocating a return to a colorblind approach. Findings show the political dynamics activated in attempts to oppose and enact anti-racism. We introduce interpellative sensemaking to theorize how individuals are recruited into ideological battles over racialized systemic power structures. Our findings highlight how ambiguity and fear—of being “too woke” or “not woke enough”—play out differently across racialized positionalities, impeding effective anti-racism. Our “bigger picture” framework (Lindebaum, 2024) reveals colorblind ideology’s role in maintaining racialized socioeconomic inequality. We argue for management educators to adopt colorbraveness—an approach that intentionally, reflexively, and accountably counters persistent racialized inequalities. We offer policy and practical suggestions for enacting colorbraveness in business schools.

For a copy email: Patricia.Naya001@umb.edu

Events, Conferences, & Calls for Paper

British Journal of Management

Paper Development Workshop British Journal of Management Special Issue on Positive Performativity Sept 23, 2024. See the recordings with presentations by Laure Cabantous, Paul Hibbert, Juliane Reinecke, and Raghu Garud. If you are interested in submitting a paper the submission window is 1 December 2024 to 10 January 2025.

All details for submission to the SI here: https://tinyurl.com/y7hdjbeb

PHILOS Colloquium 2025 Call for Papers

The 4th PHILOS Colloquium https://osofficer.wixsite.com/pros will be held in the island of Evia, Greece the 23-25 of June 2025.

If you are researching edji & responsibility issues such as organizational inequities, processes of inclusion/exclusion, discrimination, and issues of organizational justice from a philosophical perspective and philosophy is central to your theorizing please consider submitting your paper and joining us at PHILOS 2025. Deadline for submissions

February 3rd, 2025 here the call for papers: https://c4b64337-d7ad-45d5-8ff6-efb5e4a15da4.filesusr.com/ugd/788575_c2a0c91ad2a74ce28a677c270eabf6c7.pdf

EGOS Colloquium 2025

The EGOS DE&I Standing Working Group invites short papers for the Sub-theme 2

EDI in Difficult Times: Organizing Solidarity beyond Opposition and Resistance

See here the call for short papers and details for submission:

https://tinyurl.com/2kfnu7ks