Professions and inequality: challenges, controversies, and opportunities

Ashley, L., Boussebaa, M. , Friedman, S., Harrington, B., Heusinkveld, S., Gustafsson, S. and Muzio, D. (2023) Professions and inequality: challenges, controversies, and opportunities. Journal of Professions and Organization, 10(1), pp. 80-98. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joac014)

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Abstract

On the basis of the EGOS 2021 sub-plenary on ‘Professions and Inequality: Challenges, Controversies, and Opportunities’, the presenters and panellists wrote four short essays on the relationship between inequality as a grand challenge and professional occupations and organizations, their structures, practices, and strategies. Individually, these essays take an inquisitorial stance on extant understandings of (1) how professions may exacerbate existing inequalities and (2) how professions can be part of the solution and help tackle inequality as a grand challenge. Taken together, the discussion forum aims at advancing scholarly debates on inequality by showing how professions’ scholarship may critically interrogate extant understandings of inequality as a broad, multifaceted concept, whilst providing fruitful directions for research on inequality, their potential solutions, and the role and responsibilities of organization and management scholars.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Boussebaa, Professor Mehdi
Authors: Ashley, L., Boussebaa, M., Friedman, S., Harrington, B., Heusinkveld, S., Gustafsson, S., and Muzio, D.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Management
Journal Name:Journal of Professions and Organization
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:2051-8803
ISSN (Online):2051-8811
Published Online:06 December 2022
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2022 The Author(s)
First Published:First published in Journal of Professions and Organization 10(1):80-98
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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