Megan Tobias Neely
Biographic Data
| ID | 254121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Tobias Neely |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Neely |
| SIGNATURE | NEELY M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7012-889X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace
Gaslighted in the Risk Economy: How Crises Impact Inequality in the Workplace
Review essay based on: Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists, by Christine L. Williams. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 261 pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520385283
Which Cases Do I Need?' Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, 'Which cases do I need?' We argue that a core feature of most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation of a social category of inquiry. We outline how qualitative researchers construct cases and observations and discuss how these choices impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation. In pa…
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics. Next is an analysis of gendered and racialized p…
Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Book review of Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China / by Kimberly Chong. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 248 pp. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9781478000884
Profiting on Crisis: How Predatory Financial Investors Have Worsened Inequality in the Coronavirus Crisis
A once-in-a-century pandemic has sparked an unprecedented health and economic crisis. Less examined is how predatory financial investors have shaped the crisis and profited from it. We examine how U.S. shadow banks, such as private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund firms, have affected hardship and inequality during the crisis. First, we identify how these investors helped to hollow out the health care industry and disenfranchise the low-wa…
Divested: Inequality in Financialized America
Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. This book demonstrates why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing…
The Portfolio Ideal Worker: Insecurity and Inequality in the New Economy
What's love got to do with it? Passion and inequality in white‐collar work
Emotion has become an increasingly important aspect of work in the 21st century. In this article, we take stock of the extant literature delineating the role of emotions, especially passion as a cultural schema, in white‐collar workplaces. Scholars have covered extensive ground on emotions at work, but the role of passion remains an underexplored yet significant area. Drawing from recent developments in research on white‐collar work, we argue tha…
Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change
Fit to be king: How patrimonialism on Wall Street leads to inequality
The hedge fund industry is one of the most lucrative and powerful industries in the USA, yet it mostly comprises white men. To understand why, I turn to Weber's theory of patrimonialism, which primarily has been applied to historical or non-Western societies. I argue that patrimonialism—activated through trust, loyalty and tradition—restricts access to financial rewards and facilitates the reproduction of the white male domination of this industr…
Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium in Finance
Previous research documents a growing wage premium for elite financial workers since the 1980s. A second line of research finds substantial gender disparities in earnings and career mobility among elite financial workers. Yet little is known about whether women in finance still receive a wage premium compared with their nonfinance counterparts. In addition, few studies examine whether similar gender disparities exist among nonelite financial work…
Hidden Treasure: Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
Gender and Work
Over the past 30 years, the US labor market has undergone fundamental structural changes. In the past, loyal and hardworking employees could expect to spend their entire careers working for a single employer. But starting in the 1980s, globalization, deregulation, and the decline of unions transformed this standard employment contract between workers and employers. Today, employment has become more precarious, unstable, and insecure. This essay r…
Fit to be king: How patrimonialism on Wall Street leads to inequality
The hedge fund industry is one of the most lucrative and powerful industries in the USA, yet it mostly comprises white men. To understand why, I turn to Weber's theory of patrimonialism, which primarily has been applied to historical or non-Western societies. I argue that patrimonialism—activated through trust, loyalty and tradition—restricts access to financial rewards and facilitates the reproduction of the white male domination of this industr…
The Portfolio Ideal Worker: Insecurity and Inequality in the New Economy
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics. Next is an analysis of gendered and racialized p…
What's love got to do with it? Passion and inequality in white‐collar work
Emotion has become an increasingly important aspect of work in the 21st century. In this article, we take stock of the extant literature delineating the role of emotions, especially passion as a cultural schema, in white‐collar workplaces. Scholars have covered extensive ground on emotions at work, but the role of passion remains an underexplored yet significant area. Drawing from recent developments in research on white‐collar work, we argue tha…
Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street
Which Cases Do I Need?' Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, 'Which cases do I need?' We argue that a core feature of most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation of a social category of inquiry. We outline how qualitative researchers construct cases and observations and discuss how these choices impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation. In pa…
Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change
Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium in Finance
Previous research documents a growing wage premium for elite financial workers since the 1980s. A second line of research finds substantial gender disparities in earnings and career mobility among elite financial workers. Yet little is known about whether women in finance still receive a wage premium compared with their nonfinance counterparts. In addition, few studies examine whether similar gender disparities exist among nonelite financial work…
Gender and Work
Over the past 30 years, the US labor market has undergone fundamental structural changes. In the past, loyal and hardworking employees could expect to spend their entire careers working for a single employer. But starting in the 1980s, globalization, deregulation, and the decline of unions transformed this standard employment contract between workers and employers. Today, employment has become more precarious, unstable, and insecure. This essay r…
Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium in Finance
Previous research documents a growing wage premium for elite financial workers since the 1980s. A second line of research finds substantial gender disparities in earnings and career mobility among elite financial workers. Yet little is known about whether women in finance still receive a wage premium compared with their nonfinance counterparts. In addition, few studies examine whether similar gender disparities exist among nonelite financial work…
Hidden Treasure: Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
Fit to be king: How patrimonialism on Wall Street leads to inequality
The hedge fund industry is one of the most lucrative and powerful industries in the USA, yet it mostly comprises white men. To understand why, I turn to Weber's theory of patrimonialism, which primarily has been applied to historical or non-Western societies. I argue that patrimonialism—activated through trust, loyalty and tradition—restricts access to financial rewards and facilitates the reproduction of the white male domination of this industr…
What's love got to do with it? Passion and inequality in white‐collar work
Emotion has become an increasingly important aspect of work in the 21st century. In this article, we take stock of the extant literature delineating the role of emotions, especially passion as a cultural schema, in white‐collar workplaces. Scholars have covered extensive ground on emotions at work, but the role of passion remains an underexplored yet significant area. Drawing from recent developments in research on white‐collar work, we argue tha…
Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change
Divested: Inequality in Financialized America
Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. This book demonstrates why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing…
The Portfolio Ideal Worker: Insecurity and Inequality in the New Economy
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Book review of Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China / by Kimberly Chong. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 248 pp. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9781478000884
Profiting on Crisis: How Predatory Financial Investors Have Worsened Inequality in the Coronavirus Crisis
A once-in-a-century pandemic has sparked an unprecedented health and economic crisis. Less examined is how predatory financial investors have shaped the crisis and profited from it. We examine how U.S. shadow banks, such as private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund firms, have affected hardship and inequality during the crisis. First, we identify how these investors helped to hollow out the health care industry and disenfranchise the low-wa…
Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics. Next is an analysis of gendered and racialized p…
Gaslighted in the Risk Economy: How Crises Impact Inequality in the Workplace
Review essay based on: Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists, by Christine L. Williams. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 261 pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520385283
Which Cases Do I Need?' Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, 'Which cases do I need?' We argue that a core feature of most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation of a social category of inquiry. We outline how qualitative researchers construct cases and observations and discuss how these choices impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation. In pa…
The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace
Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Inequality (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)