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Ying Li
Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Manav Raj
The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania, United States
Abhishek Nagaraj
UC Berkeley & NBER, United States
Ying Li
Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Audra Wormald
Kenan-Flagler Business School, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Hatim Rahman
Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, United States
Melody Chang
USC Marshall School of Business, United States
Nicole Kreisberg
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Laura Dupin
Amsterdam Business School, U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The goal of this symposium is to bring together scholars studying the distributional effects of technology to address three questions: (1) For whom can technology democratize access? (2) Can technology exacerbate inequalities? (3) What can managers and policymakers do to facilitate the equitable distribution of technology-enabled opportunities? To this purpose, the symposium consists of four unique papers that study questions around equity and equality related to the diffusion and adoption of various technologies (i.e., sound synchronization technology in movies, mobile money, AI, and crowdfunding platforms). With diverse theoretical perspectives (i.e., organizational technology adoption, industry emergence, labor employment, and social exchange), different levels of analysis (i.e., individual, organizational, market, and country levels) and various methods (i.e., historical and archival, abductive, survey experiments, and matching in large samples), these four studies together represent a thoughtful inquiry into the issue of technology and inequality and shed light on when and under what conditions technology may be more or less likely to foster (in)equity.
Author: Ying Li – Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology
Author: Laura E. Dupin – Amsterdam Business School, U. of Amsterdam
Author: Audra Wormald – Kenan-Flagler Business School, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Author: Hatim A. Rahman – Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
Author: Nicole Kreisberg – -
Author: Melody Chang – USC Marshall School of Business