Rising social inequality across economic, gender, and racial lines is a pressing issue of our time. Despite widespread agreement that inequality exists, there are stark ideological disagreements about its extent, its victims, and about what – if anything – should be done to address it. Prior work demonstrates that the...
Employees’ social class backgrounds remain a critical but often overlooked source of inequality in white-collar workplaces: employees from working-class backgrounds are less likely to be hired, less likely to advance to leadership positions, and earn less on average than their counterparts from middle- and upper-class backgrounds, even with the same...
What is the role of entrepreneurship – a predominantly market-based approach – in addressing social problems such as inequality and social exclusion? How do entrepreneurial organizations with a distinctly social purpose (often referred to as hybrid organizations) manage additional imperatives, such as those related to democratic governance? Based on 70...