A presentation by Johanna Mair, Professor of Organization, Strategy, and Leadership at the Hertie School in Berlin. This event is part of the Fundamental Rights Research Colloquium under the cluster "Fundamental Rights and (Anti-)Discrimination" hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
Diversity initiatives are considered prominent vessels for addressing inequality and despite massive investments in them, inequality inside organizations persists. In this session, I will present insights from the research program on how organisations – at times unintendedly - reinforce and even amplify social and political inequality.
Johanna Mair is a Professor of Organization, Strategy, and Leadership at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research focuses on the nexus of organisations, institutions, and societal challenges. Her recent work centers on mechanisms enabling organisations to transform social systems and progress on social problems. She is the academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review and co-directs the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She has co-directed the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, has served on the faculty at IESE Business School, and has held a visiting position at the Harvard Business School and INSEAD. Her book Innovation and Scaling – How Effective Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact (Stanford University Press, 2017), co-authored with Christian Seelos, has won the 2017 Terry McAdam Award at ARNOVA and the 2018 ONE Outstanding Book Award at the Academy of Management Meeting. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Ethics, Research in Organizational Behavior, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Nature Human Behavior, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In addition, her work has been featured in the Financial Times and Forbes Magazine.
Prior registration is required. Registered attendees will receive the dial-in details as well as a draft paper, on which the presentation is based, via e-mail prior to the event.