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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

OMT

65: OMT & DEI Intersect: Performing Research and Publishing on Organizations and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (21900)

Friday, August 9, 2024
09:00 – 12:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Fairmont: Regent Room
Session Number: 65
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Theme,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/xKqWxJ
A comprehensive understanding of diversity within organizations is essential. While the number of publications related to diversity has increased, scholars vary in how they write about and incorporate diversity in their research. The workshop will include three parts – parts 1 and 2 are open to all and will involve panel presentations and plenary discussions and are open to all. Part 3 will build on and extend part 2, with participation restricted to participants who have submitted a 2-page proposal ahead of time. Our first panel (part 1) will ask when, how, and why scholars foreground, background, or drop diversity and inequality when moving from real-world observations to research accounts in papers and publications. Panel presentations and Q&A will help us address questions such as: What challenges, pushback, and missed opportunities do scholars face when trying to include diversity in their papers and research? What are authors’ experiences when trying to publish research that includes a diversity component? What are editors’ views on positioning such research? Our second panel (part 2) will explore how diversity has been included across research in organizational theory, strategy and entrepreneurship. The panel will address questions such as: How do institutional pressures shape organizational DEI strategies? How do firms respond to such institutional pressures? What features of a firm influence a firm’s pursuit of DEI Initiatives? What are some organizational-level consequences of DEI initiatives? To further discuss questions on how diversity has been included across research in organizational theory, strategy and entrepreneurship (part 3), preregistered participants will be divided into groups to discuss their research ideas with panelists. Throughout the PDW, leading scholars in organizational theory and organizational behavior will discuss their experiences as they try to address these questions and will help participants reflect on how to move forward individually and collectively to advance the integration of diversity and inequality in management research.