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View article: Taking stock and setting directions on timely organizational phenomena: Artificial intelligence, indigeneity, precarious work, and multi-level theorizing
Taking stock and setting directions on timely organizational phenomena: Artificial intelligence, indigeneity, precarious work, and multi-level theorizing Open
This inaugural critical reviews special issue marks a deliberate step in renewing what Human Relations has always stood for: a broad, rigorous, and human-centered conversation about work and organizing. Our aim with this special issue is t…
View article: Let’s Talk About Exclusion: A Multi-Level Model of Destructive Leadership and Psychological Functioning of Employees With Common Mental Disorders
Let’s Talk About Exclusion: A Multi-Level Model of Destructive Leadership and Psychological Functioning of Employees With Common Mental Disorders Open
The prevalence rates of Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) worldwide are at an all-time high. Workplaces are especially impacted by this phenomenon. As organizations strive to leverage the full potential of all employees, leaders are responsib…
View article: Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation
Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation Open
Management educators are now tasked with the responsibility to identify novel ways to reach students, while working under the technologically enabled conditions established by digital transformation, and constantly changing, with the ongoi…
View article: Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?
Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy? Open
In this article, we reflect on the dark side of generative artificial intelligence. We identify several concerns associated with generative artificial intelligence in relation to knowledge processing and developing understanding, including…
View article: GWO in Interesting Times: Joint Editorial
GWO in Interesting Times: Joint Editorial Open
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View article: Crafting Sustainable Careers as Minority Academics
Crafting Sustainable Careers as Minority Academics Open
Reflecting on our experiences in the academic profession, in this paper we offer insights on how to craft sustainable careers as minority academics. While there has been engaged interest amongst business school scholars to study the myriad…
View article: Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective Open
Decolonisation of the curriculum has attracted substantial attention from university educators, especially from those based in countries implicated by colonialism. Among academics in schools of business and management, there is increasing …
View article: Old gods, new world: Theoretical advances in the marketization and the consumption of religion
Old gods, new world: Theoretical advances in the marketization and the consumption of religion Open
In this editorial on the special issue of the contemporary consumption of religion, we unpack the spectrum of continuity and changes in the theorization of the consumption and function of religion in marketing and consumer research. We exp…
View article: Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how?
Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how? Open
The ‘Provocations Essay’, formerly ‘Provocations to Debate’, was a section of the journal conceived eight years ago, ‘. . . to provide a forum for essay-like, polemical writing on important and topical issues concerning management learning…
View article: The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics Open
Plagiarism accusations have become increasingly politicized over the last few years. In this article, we raise some of our concerns with how vacuous plagiarism accusations are now part of the arsenal of anti-woke politics. Revisiting the r…
View article: Racial capitalism and COVID-19
Racial capitalism and COVID-19 Open
The aim of this article is to revisit the racial disparities in health outcomes from COVID-19 and to problematize the overly simplified attribution of these numbers to race. This article calls for a deeper understanding of society’s wider …
View article: COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research
COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research Open
The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that…
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View article: Critiquing the Backlash Against Wokeness: In Defense of DEI Scholarship and Practice
Critiquing the Backlash Against Wokeness: In Defense of DEI Scholarship and Practice Open
In the last few years, we have witnessed growing backlash against “wokeness” from numerous actors. Indeed, politicians, social commentators, corporate executives, and academics have all taken aim at the concept. In this Exchange article, w…
View article: Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire Open
Paulo Freire is widely acknowledged as one of the leading 20th-century philosophers of education. Freire’s ideas have been leveraged by scholars across the social sciences, including in the field of organization studies where it has come t…
View article: Undocumented immigrants at work: invisibility, hypervisibility, and the making of the modern slave
Undocumented immigrants at work: invisibility, hypervisibility, and the making of the modern slave Open
The undocumented immigrant represents a socio-legal category, referring to a subject who does not have legal standing to be in the country in which they are located. Extending from their lack of legal standing, undocumented immigrant worke…
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View article: What is the real perversity of racism?
What is the real perversity of racism? Open
Racism is inscribed onto the mind of the racialized subject. This essay represents my attempt at making sense of the psychological costs levied by the racism that materializes from living in a culture of hegemonic whiteness. My analysis is…
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View article: Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices
Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices Open
How is social inequality reproduced through day-to-day practices? In this commentary, we use the geographical context of Mexico City to argue that social inequality is maintained by “class work” of elites. Specifically, we discuss how (1) …
View article: Critical Management Studies and Moving Towards Hope: A Dialogue
Critical Management Studies and Moving Towards Hope: A Dialogue Open
Critical Management Studies and Moving Towards Hope: A Dialogue. An article from journal Management international / International Management / Gestiòn Internacional (Les écoles de gestion : entre critique, résistance et transformation), on…
View article: What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism?
What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism? Open
The #MeToo and the Time's Up movements have captured the urgency to address systemic manifestations of sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny in all aspects of society. Among the myriad discourses that have been catalyzed by these contemporaneou…
View article: The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how COVID-19 is exploited by populist leaders
The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how COVID-19 is exploited by populist leaders Open
Using the persecution of Muslims in India that is currently taking place against the backdrop of the COVID-19 global pandemic as an illustrative case, this essay identifies the dynamics of the organization of ideological discourse by popul…
View article: The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: the case of an Indian slum in the times of COVID-19
The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: the case of an Indian slum in the times of COVID-19 Open
As cases of COVID-19 were rising in India and the country's political leadership instituted a nationwide lockdown, one of the authors of this article received a timely invitation from a friend – a government official – to make rounds with …
View article: Learning empathy through literature
Learning empathy through literature Open
In the field of organization studies, little consideration has thus far been devoted to the study of literature. The lacuna in the extant scholarship is unfortunate insofar as there is much to be gained for researchers interested in unders…
View article: Race and racism in an elite postcolonial context: reflections from investment banking
Race and racism in an elite postcolonial context: reflections from investment banking Open
The question of how race manifests at work in postcolonial contexts has been an understudied phenomenon by management and organization studies researchers. This article seeks to address the void in the extant literature by drawing on the r…