Critical Management Studies (CMS)

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Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Short Papers for the first sub-theme of the new EGOS Standing Working Group - Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Theorizing Transformative Change in Organizations, which is coordinated by Inge Bleijenbergh, Laura Dobusch, Alexander Fleischmann, Zeynep Gülru Göker & Koen Van Laer 

Sub-theme 02: Radical Dialogues on Inequalities, Privilege, and Marginalization in Organizations.

Convenors: Koen Van Laer (Hasselt University), Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk (Queen Mary University of London) & Rasika Mahajan (Radboud University)

The aim of this sub-theme is to offer a platform for radical dialogues on the state and future of the field of diversity, equity and inclusion and on the persistence of inequalities, privilege and marginalization in organizations. 

We welcome theoretical, conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method papers dealing with topics including, but not limited to:

• The diverse ways in which inequalities, privilege and marginalization are reproduced in organizations and labour markets.
• The societal and labour market evolutions creating new forms of inequalities, privilege and marginalization.
• Analyses of inequalities, privilege and marginalization in organizations and labour markets that draw on radical insights from, for example, Black Marxism, Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, Intersectional and Ecological Feminism, or Critical Disability Studies.
• The ways in which dominant approaches to DEI in organizations mask, reflect and reproduce inequalities, privilege and marginalization.
• The ways in which current (academic and societal) debates on DEI mask, reflect and reproduce inequalities, privilege and marginalization.
• Activist and Indigenous perspectives on (resistance to) inequalities, privilege and marginalization that can contribute to debates on DEI in organizations.
• Inequalities, privilege and marginalization in the Global South, which are often overlooked in academic debates on DEI.
• Analyses of inequalities, privilege and marginalization from other disciplines that can contribute to debates on these issues in organizations and labour markets.
• Analyses of inequalities, privilege and marginalization in organizations that trace their entanglement and interdependence with the multiple ecological crises we are facing.

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Koen Van Laer
Associate Professor
Hasselt University
Hasselt
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