Ajnesh Prasad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ajnesh Prasad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ajnesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Prasad |
| SIGNATURE | PRASAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tecnológico de Monterrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4368-1796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“Will the Real Feminist Please Stand Up?”: Plural Feminisms, Narrative Control, and the Politics of Staying In (and Out) at Gender, Work & Organization
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Reimagining agency: Subjectivity as a radical lens on institutional work
Institutional theory has long been concerned with the relationship between agency and structure in explaining how institutions are created, maintained and transformed. While early formulations emphasized the constraining power of institutional structures, subsequent work – most notably the institutional work literature – has sought to recuperate agency by foregrounding the purposive actions of individuals and collective actors. Despite these adva…
Taking stock and setting directions on timely organizational phenomena: Artificial intelligence, indigeneity, precarious work, and multi-level theorizing
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 therefore twofold: to take stock and to set direction. By curating critical, integrative reviews on select but timely topics, we map the evolution of debates, clarify where concepts and methods need to realign, a…
Transcending Boundaries: Reimagining the Possibilities of Scholarship
In this editorial, I introduce Transcending Boundaries—the newest section of Gender, Work & Organization. Transcending Boundaries aims to reimagine the possibilities of scholarship. It is intended to be experimental, subversive, and provocative—all the while, unapologetically presenting ideas that dislocate the hegemonic narratives, which currently structure knowledge in management and organization studies. This section complements the rich tradi…
From Theorizing Othering to Othering Theorizing: Reflections From the GWO 2025 Keynote Panel
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Misclassification, Tipping and the Responsibilisation of Work in the Global South
Workers are increasingly expected to take on responsibilities for those aspects of their wellbeing that were historically attended to by their employers - an unsettling trend that has been termed 'responsibilisation'. While this phenomenon is manifesting across the globe and poses significant implications for both employers and employees, the effects of responsibilisation are perhaps most detrimentally felt by workers in the Global South, where t…
Critiquing the Backlash Against Wokeness: In Defense of DEI Scholarship and Practice
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, we respond to the recent criticisms laid against “woke” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) scholarship and practice from researchers in the field of management, focusing particularly on those claims that have…
Racial capitalism and Covid-19
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 economic arrangements in which these racial disparities are produced. It considers why a proposed public-policy measure that targeted racism—though without substantively accounting for the underlying form of cap…
Undocumented immigrants at work: Invisibility, hypervisibility, and the making of the modern slave
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 workers in the United States occupy spaces marked by extreme conditions of vulnerability, which were exacerbated by the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016. The aim of this ethnographic study is to make sen…
How Does Legal Status Inform Immigrant Agency During Encounters of Workplace Incivility
Racialized experiences as in-betweenness in academia
This article draws on an in-depth narrative of a Chinese woman, early career researcher based in a UK business school, to consider questions of subtle racism in academia. Specifically, engaging with our informant’s testimony, and reading it in the context of critical organizational debates on race, we offer episodic accounts of the subtle racism that she has encountered in academia to conceptualize experiences of in-betweenness of racial minoriti…
Queering consumption: The discursive construction of sexual identity among gay fashion consumers in Hong Kong
The purpose of this study is to investigate how sexual identity is constructed among gay fashion consumers in Hong Kong through myriad consumption practices. We employed ethnographic research methods and conducted thirteen in-depth interviews with gay male consumers in Hong Kong to examine the relationship between identity and lifestyle consumption, as well as symbolic consumption and tribal behaviour, within a ‘gay’ community. The findings captu…
Maintaining Sacred Identities: How Religious Anti‐Consumption Conflicts with Culture
Drawing on in‐depth interview data from an Islamic orthodox social movement in Pakistan, we investigate how participants invoke religious ideology to forge anti‐consumption behaviour in opposition to prevailing cultural norms. We identify anti‐consumption behaviour fuelled by foreign values, foreign lifestyles, Islamic values, and Islamic lifestyles. Coloured by a value system that steers them toward a distinct Islamic lifestyle and away from alt…
What’s up with our obsession with the theoretical contribution: A means to an end or an end in and of itself
Knowledge production in the discipline of management and organization studies (MOS) is in a labyrinth of its own making. Over the last 30 years, scholars in the discipline have exhibited an intransigent obsession with the theoretical contribution. At this juncture, with Organization about to commence its fourth decade in publication, I would like to take the opportunity to pause as well as to reflect on some of the implications and the consequenc…
What is the real perversity of racism
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 informed by Frantz Fanon's writings and, particularly, his concept of corporeal malediction. Corporeal malediction captures the unique reality of the racialized subject—one that is different from the systemic d…
The neoliberalization of Indian business schools: How Accreditation-Linked Institutional Pressures Shape Academic Subjectivities
Purpose This study revisits the discourse on the neoliberalization of business schools and explores how accreditation-linked institutional pressures catalyze cultural change that adversely impact academic labor and academic subjectivities in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with academics from elite business schools in India. Findings This study shows how academics encounter …
Caring about the unequal effects of the pandemic: What feminist theory, art, and activism can teach us
How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work
Extant research on dirty work—occupations involving physical, social, or moral taint, which affect worker identities—has been read primarily through the lens of social identity theory (SIT). There are two notable shortcomings that emerge as a consequence of dirty work being too heavily reliant upon the precepts of SIT, which we seek to remedy in this article: (1) the overemphasis on the symbolic to the detriment of the material has led to false o…
Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium
The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: The case of an Indian slum in the times of Covid-19
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 him and his team to various neighbourhoods within the metropolitan city of Bangalore. The team consisted of members working in healthcare, municipal corporation, and local police, and was tasked with ensuring th…
Colonization, migration, and right-wing extremism: The constitution of embodied life of a dispossessed undocumented immigrant woman
The aim of this essay is to illuminate the lived experiences of Victoria—an undocumented immigrant woman of Mexican origin working and living in the United States. Drawing on an in-depth interview conducted with Victoria following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, we identify a set of discursive and material conditions that inform her lived reality. By examining three mutually constituting stages of Victoria’s life, …
The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how Covid-19 is exploited by populist leaders
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 populist leaders in times of unexpected crisis. The organization of ideological discourse represents strategic, discursive acts committed by populist leaders aimed at foregrounding social conditions that would functi…
What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism
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 contemporaneous movements includes one related to the role of men in achieving gender egalitarianism. Men are allocated unearned privilege associated with being a man in a culture that is inherently phallogocentric. This fact…
Resistance and praxis in the making of feminist solidarity: A conversation with Cynthia Enloe
Ajnesh Prasad and Ghazal Zulfiqar had the opportunity to interview Professor Cynthia Enloe — feminist, social justice activist and the plenary speaker for the Critical Management Studies division at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. The contents of the interview are presented in this article. The interview is based on an initial set of preliminary questions that Ajnesh and Ghazal posed to Cynthia over multiple email exchanges …
Learning empathy through literature
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 understanding organization to critically engage with literature. As an illustrative example of how literature can inform myriad pertinent discourses in organization studies, in this piece we study the question of empa…
Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia
The #MeToo and the Time’s Up movements have raised the issue of sexual harassment encountered by women to the level of public consciousness. Together, these movements have captured not only the ubiquity of sexual harassment in the everyday functioning of the workplace, but they have also demonstrated how women are silenced about their experiences of it. Inspired by the political and the social currents emerging from these movements, and theoretic…
How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work
Extant research on dirty work—occupations involving physical, social, or moral taint, which affect worker identities—has been read primarily through the lens of social identity theory (SIT). There are two notable shortcomings that emerge as a consequence of dirty work being too heavily reliant upon the precepts of SIT, which we seek to remedy in this article: (1) the overemphasis on the symbolic to the detriment of the material has led to false o…
Beyond analytical dichotomies
Management researchers habitually invoke analytical categories of difference – whether they be based on gender, race, or sexual identity – in responding to issues of systemic inequalities in organizational life. Poststructuralists and other critically orientated scholars have cited the myriad of trajectories through which analytical categories of difference reinscribe dichotomous modes of thinking and, therein, ignore the idiosyncrasies in human …
You can't go home again: And other psychoanalytic lessons from crossing a neo-colonial border
The purpose of this article is to situate the nexus between reflexivity and fieldwork through autoethnographic analysis. Specifically, drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial thought, this article utilizes introspective data from field research conducted in the occupied Palestinian territories to explore how Qalandiya - a neo-colonial militarized border crossing between Jerusalem, Israel and the West Bank's twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh…
Cyborg Writing as a Political Act: Reading Donna Haraway in Organization Studies
Extending the works of scholars who have elucidated writing as the quintessential site for social transformation, the aim of this article is to locate the myriad possibilities for actualizing Donna Haraway's concept of cyborg writing in the field of organization studies. I contend that cyborg writing functions as a discursive mechanism by which to disrupt Enlightenment ideals of Cartesian duality, objectivity and rationality. These ideals inform …
The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how Covid-19 is exploited by populist leaders
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 populist leaders in times of unexpected crisis. The organization of ideological discourse represents strategic, discursive acts committed by populist leaders aimed at foregrounding social conditions that would functi…
Race and racism in an elite postcolonial context: Reflections From Investment Banking
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 rich experiences of a visible minority investment banker who worked in several countries with colonial legacies. Presented as a narrative, the banker's experience conceptualizes how race ubiquitously materializes…
Why Do Women Still Not Make It to the Top? Dominant Organizational Ideologies and Biases by Promotion Committees Limit Opportunities to Destination Positions
Denying Anthropogenic Climate Change: Or, How Our Rejection of Objective Reality Gave Intellectual Legitimacy to Fake News
The political rise of right‐wing populism in the United States, and elsewhere, has prompted a reexamination of theoretical perspectives that oscillate on an unequivocal rejection of objective reality. Indeed, populist campaigns that have acquired wide currency in the last few years have been ontologically predicated on the idea that there exists different “truths.” The premise of different truths has debunked any notion of an objective reality by…
Consumption within a soft total institution: Discursive inculcation in the Tablighi Jamaat
Erving Goffman’s concept of total institutions has been seldom explored in terms of how it restricts or promotes consumption practices. In an effort to redress the lacuna in the extant literature, this article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of the Tablighi Jamaat, an orthodox religious organization originating in South Asia, whose participants undergo discursive inculcation in an environment that may be characterized as a soft tot…
Contesting Hegemony through Genealogy: Foucault and Cross Cultural Management Research
Much of organizational theory emanating from the field of management studies has been predicated on the Westocentric assumption of universality and has, therefore, been bereft of cultural contextualization. This is problematic insofar as such theories negate the lived realities of many non-Western peoples, particularly those who constitute members of systematically oppressed classes. With the aim to subvert the ethnocentric foundation upon which …
Resistance and praxis in the making of feminist solidarity: A conversation with Cynthia Enloe
Ajnesh Prasad and Ghazal Zulfiqar had the opportunity to interview Professor Cynthia Enloe — feminist, social justice activist and the plenary speaker for the Critical Management Studies division at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. The contents of the interview are presented in this article. The interview is based on an initial set of preliminary questions that Ajnesh and Ghazal posed to Cynthia over multiple email exchanges …
Temporal Spaces of Egalitarianism: The Ethical Negation of Economic Inequality in an Ephemeral Religious Organization
What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism
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 contemporaneous movements includes one related to the role of men in achieving gender egalitarianism. Men are allocated unearned privilege associated with being a man in a culture that is inherently phallogocentric. This fact…
From Wall 1.0 to Wall 2.0: Graffiti, Social Media, and Ideological Acts of Resistance and Recognition Among Palestinian Refugees
Writing as an ideological act of resistance and recognition among members of the socially disenfranchised has been engaged with in myriad contested political and cultural terrains. Historically, for Palestinian refugees living under conditions of Israeli occupation, expressions of resistance and recognition were visually and textually inscribed through provocative displays of graffiti on the very separatist wall erected by their occupiers. More r…
Caring about the unequal effects of the pandemic: What feminist theory, art, and activism can teach us
Academic life under institutional pressures for AACSB accreditation: Insights from faculty members in Mexican business schools
Scholars have increasingly recognized how efforts among business schools to attain or maintain accreditation from external agencies (i.e. Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [AACSB]) have engendered myriad consequences on the experiences of academic faculty members. Extant research that has investigated this phenomenon empirically has focused on business schools in advanced economy contexts, where such institutions are relativel…
What is the real perversity of racism
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 informed by Frantz Fanon's writings and, particularly, his concept of corporeal malediction. Corporeal malediction captures the unique reality of the racialized subject—one that is different from the systemic d…
On the Potential and Perils of Same-Sex Marriage: A Perspective from Queer Theory
The last decade has witnessed a polemical debate over the merits of same-sex marriage. The crux of this acrimonious debate, the question of legalization, has entered the political vernacular, manifesting in Canada in form of the Civil Marriage Act (2005) and in the United States in form of the recently defeated Federal Marriage Amendment (2006). In this paper, I endeavor to forward the cause for same-sex marriage from the standpoint of queer theo…
Cultural Relativism in Human Rights Discourse
This essay critically engages with and moves toward reconceptualizing the concept of cultural relativism. In ongoing public policy and academic debates, cultural relativism has become a nuanced ide
Transcending Boundaries: Reimagining the Possibilities of Scholarship
In this editorial, I introduce Transcending Boundaries—the newest section of Gender, Work & Organization. Transcending Boundaries aims to reimagine the possibilities of scholarship. It is intended to be experimental, subversive, and provocative—all the while, unapologetically presenting ideas that dislocate the hegemonic narratives, which currently structure knowledge in management and organization studies. This section complements the rich tradi…
Misclassification, Tipping and the Responsibilisation of Work in the Global South
Workers are increasingly expected to take on responsibilities for those aspects of their wellbeing that were historically attended to by their employers - an unsettling trend that has been termed 'responsibilisation'. While this phenomenon is manifesting across the globe and poses significant implications for both employers and employees, the effects of responsibilisation are perhaps most detrimentally felt by workers in the Global South, where t…
Learning empathy through literature
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 understanding organization to critically engage with literature. As an illustrative example of how literature can inform myriad pertinent discourses in organization studies, in this piece we study the question of empa…
How Does Corporeality Inform Theorizing? Revisiting Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
On the Etiology and Politics of Sexual Phenomenology
Working from the conceptual site, which discloses the relationship between the theory and the practice of Judith Butler's post-structuralist framework, this paper looks at male lesbians to amplify the diversity within gender identity and sexual expression. Male lesbians problematise the sex-leads-to-gender hierarchy and, in doing so, unravel the entire enterprise of heteronormativity. More importantly, perhaps, they illustrate the confluence in t…
Cultural Relativism in Human Rights Discourse
This essay critically engages with and moves toward reconceptualizing the concept of cultural relativism. In ongoing public policy and academic debates, cultural relativism has become a nuanced ide
On the Potential and Perils of Same-Sex Marriage: A Perspective from Queer Theory
The last decade has witnessed a polemical debate over the merits of same-sex marriage. The crux of this acrimonious debate, the question of legalization, has entered the political vernacular, manifesting in Canada in form of the Civil Marriage Act (2005) and in the United States in form of the recently defeated Federal Marriage Amendment (2006). In this paper, I endeavor to forward the cause for same-sex marriage from the standpoint of queer theo…
Contesting Hegemony through Genealogy: Foucault and Cross Cultural Management Research
Much of organizational theory emanating from the field of management studies has been predicated on the Westocentric assumption of universality and has, therefore, been bereft of cultural contextualization. This is problematic insofar as such theories negate the lived realities of many non-Western peoples, particularly those who constitute members of systematically oppressed classes. With the aim to subvert the ethnocentric foundation upon which …
On the Etiology and Politics of Sexual Phenomenology
Working from the conceptual site, which discloses the relationship between the theory and the practice of Judith Butler's post-structuralist framework, this paper looks at male lesbians to amplify the diversity within gender identity and sexual expression. Male lesbians problematise the sex-leads-to-gender hierarchy and, in doing so, unravel the entire enterprise of heteronormativity. More importantly, perhaps, they illustrate the confluence in t…
Beyond analytical dichotomies
Management researchers habitually invoke analytical categories of difference – whether they be based on gender, race, or sexual identity – in responding to issues of systemic inequalities in organizational life. Poststructuralists and other critically orientated scholars have cited the myriad of trajectories through which analytical categories of difference reinscribe dichotomous modes of thinking and, therein, ignore the idiosyncrasies in human …
Playing the game and trying not to lose myself: A doctoral student’s perspective on the institutional pressures for research output
Several management scholars have recently discussed the consequences that emerge from the institutional pressures for research output. While an important debate for the field, thus far, it has wholly neglected to account for the voices of doctoral students—arguably, the most disempowered constituents within the academy. Working from a doctoral student’s perspective, the aim of this article is to integrate anecdotal evidence with Foucault’s idea o…
You can't go home again: And other psychoanalytic lessons from crossing a neo-colonial border
The purpose of this article is to situate the nexus between reflexivity and fieldwork through autoethnographic analysis. Specifically, drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial thought, this article utilizes introspective data from field research conducted in the occupied Palestinian territories to explore how Qalandiya - a neo-colonial militarized border crossing between Jerusalem, Israel and the West Bank's twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh…
Corporeal ethics in an ethnographic encounter: A tale of embodiment from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Questioning Neoliberal Capitalism and Economic Inequality in Business Schools
The burgeoning economic inequality between the richest and the poorest is a cause of concern for social, political, and ethical reasons. While businesses are both implicated and affected by growing inequality, business schools have largely neglected to subject the phenomenon to sufficient critique. This is, in part, because far too many management educators rely on orthodox economic perspectives—often represented by neoliberal capitalism—which ha…
How might we study international business to account for marginalized subjects: Turning to practice and situating knowledges
Purpose The aim of this article is to encourage critical scholars of international business (IB) to engage with scholarship that turns to practice and situates knowledges. The paper contends that such undertakings have the potential to constructively politicize research in the field of international business. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses the need for future research in the field to be studied more critically so as to be able to…
From margin to center: Listening to silenced subjectivities in international business
Purpose The editorial introduces the special issue entitled, “Voices at/from the margins: Articulating the consequences of international business”. Design/methodology/approach The editorial begins by briefly describing how the idea for the special issue was initiated and then provides an overview of the articles included. Findings The editorial contains a discussion of the themes emerging from the special issue articles. Originality/value The edi…
Cyborg Writing as a Political Act: Reading Donna Haraway in Organization Studies
Extending the works of scholars who have elucidated writing as the quintessential site for social transformation, the aim of this article is to locate the myriad possibilities for actualizing Donna Haraway's concept of cyborg writing in the field of organization studies. I contend that cyborg writing functions as a discursive mechanism by which to disrupt Enlightenment ideals of Cartesian duality, objectivity and rationality. These ideals inform …
Why Do Women Still Not Make It to the Top? Dominant Organizational Ideologies and Biases by Promotion Committees Limit Opportunities to Destination Positions
Race and racism in an elite postcolonial context: Reflections From Investment Banking
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 rich experiences of a visible minority investment banker who worked in several countries with colonial legacies. Presented as a narrative, the banker's experience conceptualizes how race ubiquitously materializes…
Visualizing community pride: Engaging community through photo- and video-voice methods
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential of visual (i.e. non-textual) research methods in community-based participatory research. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on a case illustration of a photo- and video-voice campaign involving rural communities in British Columbia, Canada. Findings The authors find that visual research methods, in the form of photo- and video-voice campaigns, allow participants to form ties…
How Does Corporeality Inform Theorizing? Revisiting Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
From Wall 1.0 to Wall 2.0: Graffiti, Social Media, and Ideological Acts of Resistance and Recognition Among Palestinian Refugees
Writing as an ideological act of resistance and recognition among members of the socially disenfranchised has been engaged with in myriad contested political and cultural terrains. Historically, for Palestinian refugees living under conditions of Israeli occupation, expressions of resistance and recognition were visually and textually inscribed through provocative displays of graffiti on the very separatist wall erected by their occupiers. More r…
Temporal Spaces of Egalitarianism: The Ethical Negation of Economic Inequality in an Ephemeral Religious Organization
Consumption within a soft total institution: Discursive inculcation in the Tablighi Jamaat
Erving Goffman’s concept of total institutions has been seldom explored in terms of how it restricts or promotes consumption practices. In an effort to redress the lacuna in the extant literature, this article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of the Tablighi Jamaat, an orthodox religious organization originating in South Asia, whose participants undergo discursive inculcation in an environment that may be characterized as a soft tot…
Learning empathy through literature
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 understanding organization to critically engage with literature. As an illustrative example of how literature can inform myriad pertinent discourses in organization studies, in this piece we study the question of empa…
Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia
The #MeToo and the Time’s Up movements have raised the issue of sexual harassment encountered by women to the level of public consciousness. Together, these movements have captured not only the ubiquity of sexual harassment in the everyday functioning of the workplace, but they have also demonstrated how women are silenced about their experiences of it. Inspired by the political and the social currents emerging from these movements, and theoretic…
Denying Anthropogenic Climate Change: Or, How Our Rejection of Objective Reality Gave Intellectual Legitimacy to Fake News
The political rise of right‐wing populism in the United States, and elsewhere, has prompted a reexamination of theoretical perspectives that oscillate on an unequivocal rejection of objective reality. Indeed, populist campaigns that have acquired wide currency in the last few years have been ontologically predicated on the idea that there exists different “truths.” The premise of different truths has debunked any notion of an objective reality by…
Academic life under institutional pressures for AACSB accreditation: Insights from faculty members in Mexican business schools
Scholars have increasingly recognized how efforts among business schools to attain or maintain accreditation from external agencies (i.e. Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [AACSB]) have engendered myriad consequences on the experiences of academic faculty members. Extant research that has investigated this phenomenon empirically has focused on business schools in advanced economy contexts, where such institutions are relativel…
The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: The case of an Indian slum in the times of Covid-19
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 him and his team to various neighbourhoods within the metropolitan city of Bangalore. The team consisted of members working in healthcare, municipal corporation, and local police, and was tasked with ensuring th…
Colonization, migration, and right-wing extremism: The constitution of embodied life of a dispossessed undocumented immigrant woman
The aim of this essay is to illuminate the lived experiences of Victoria—an undocumented immigrant woman of Mexican origin working and living in the United States. Drawing on an in-depth interview conducted with Victoria following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, we identify a set of discursive and material conditions that inform her lived reality. By examining three mutually constituting stages of Victoria’s life, …
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