Inequality, Institutions and Organizations

Abstract

The organizations and institutions with which we interact in our everyday lives are heavily implicated in the rising levels of global inequality. We develop understanding of the ways in which a preference in social structures for the free market over other forms of economic organisation has made inequality almost inevitable. This has been accompanied by organisational practices such as hiring, promotion, and reward allocation, that maintain and enhance societal inequalities. The mutually constitutive relationship between organizations and institutions in the reproduction of inequality are exposed throughout.

The Role of Institutional Uncertainty for Social Sustainability of Companies and Supply Chains

“…Hence, it is essential that the interrelations and interlinks are analysed to understand their characteristics more deeply. This in-depth investigation falls in line with calls for a more specified use of institutional theory and (social) sustainability/ethics in SCs (Golicic et al 2019;Amis et al 2018;Yawar and Kauppi 2018;Quarshie et al 2016). Therefore, the thus far often neglected institutional pressure's origins, characteristics, interrelations and influence can be understood in greater depth (Kauppi 2013).…”

Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations Build Community Resilience

“…Grand challenges are globally relevant, multifaceted, and complex social and ecological problems or ambitions that implicate diverse role-players and defy straightforward solutions (Ferraro et al 2015;George et al 2016). They have become salient for management scholars because organisations contribute to many of the underlying problematic trends, such as climate change (e.g., Wright and Nyberg 2017) and income inequality (e.g., Cobb 2016;Amis et al 2018), and they are also involved-at least potentially-in ameliorating or even reversing them (George et al 2016).…”

Desigualdade Social, Responsabilidade E Responsividade Da Pesquisa

“…The organization would be the entity to be explained. that produce inequality in their structure and internal processes or because they adopt management practices that replicate existing social problems (Amis et al, 2018;Marens, 2018). Furthermore, it is understood that social inequality requires interdisciplinary treatment, which explains the interest of different stakeholders, including public research funds, government, and segments of civil society.…”

“…As examples, we may cite the Leiden Manifesto (Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, Rijcke, & Rafols, 2015), The Metric Tide report (Wilsdon et al, 2015), and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, known as DORA (ASCB, 2013). In this issue, the RAE editorial (see Tonelli & Zambaldi, 2018) (Alperstedt & Andion, 2017;Amis et al, 2018). Moreover, the low commitment and low sensitivity of the research activities of social inequality drastically reduce the potential societal impact that could be derived from the area of Business Administration in terms of the expectation or confirmation of its influence on and benefits to society (Lima & Wood Jr., 2014).…”

“…In conclusion, we argue that responsible engagement legitimizes while responsiveness transforms. The argument is that the approach of research to social problems, especially the more pervasive and pernicious ones, such as social inequality, requires the complicity of mechanisms (see Amis, Munir, Lawrence, Hirsch, & McGahan, 2018) at the organizational and institutional levels of the scientific field of Business Administration. This implies, on the one hand, the need to consider the articulation between research intentions and intervention spaces on social reality and, on the other hand, the need to consider formal induction and moral commitment in the infusion of values that bring scientific practice closer to the transformation of society.…”