Guest Editors for Special Issue (2024):
• Dr. Veena Vohra, Professor – HR and Behavioural Sciences, NMIMS University,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Email: Veena.Vohra@sbm.nmims.edu
• Dr. Rupashree Baral, Professor (HR & OB), Department of Management Studies
IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: rupashree@iitm.ac.in
Call for papers
Business Perspective Research is pleased to announce a special issue focused on
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB). DEIB offers a platform for
critical and rigorous exploration of equal opportunities concerns including gender, age,
class, caste, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religion, culture as
well as other nascent forms of inequalities in the context of society and organisations.
More research and discussion are needed to expand the understanding on diversity and
diversity management to include stronger theorisation, methodological rigour, broader
geographical expansion and improved practical implications. Along with Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion, research on Belonging has developed over the years with
contributions from a variety of discipline and perspectives, leading to diverse assessment
methods. There is a need for integrating the existing literature, developing robust
assessment measures and evaluating the gaps between the research and practice of
belonging.
With the above background, the proposed special issue aims to offer a range of
ideological, theoretical and practical perspectives on DEIB such as what diversity,
equity, inclusion, and belonging means to different stakeholders, how it is seen,
perceived, experienced and practiced and how it creates impact at different levels. The
special issue will focus on conceptual and theoretical ideas, case studies, research
issues initiatives and strategies and practices of corporates, educational institutions
towards DEIB. We would like to explores questions about what is distinctive about
current discourses and practices of DEIB especially in the Indian context, how different
or similar they are to the Western discourses of diversity management, and their possible
implications for governments, organizations and individuals.
Research Papers are invited from academicians and Case Studies from practitioners who
do work in the area of DEIB, including but not limited to the areas of gender, age, disability,
neuro diversity, religion, ethnicity ('race'), sexualities, LGBTQA++, intersectionality and
from a range of organisational, geographical and cultural contexts. We invite papers that
deal with these issues from different country perspectives and from a comparative
perspective too. Papers could include (the list is not exhaustive though) reflections on:
• Legal and institutional aspects with regards to DEIB: governance, country
specific differences in affirmative actions, statutes, and laws.
• Organisational approaches/initiatives: DEIB policies/initiatives/practices/cases/
measures, diversity training and their effectiveness etc., impact of DEIB
philosophies, culture and practices and their influence on several individuals/
groups, and their coping mechanisms.
• Multilevel perspectives: Highlighting multilevel perspectives on DEIB
management, which consider the complexities presented by ethnicity, religion,
gender and other dimension of individual identity, and their continuous interplay
with various macro-societal and organizational level variables.
• Indigenous (context-specific) research: Critical examination of local and national
context in understanding and managing diversity such as issues of migrants.
We are particularly interested in papers, either conceptual, literature reviews or
empirical, that offer fresh and novel contributions to the existing 'mainstream' literature
and its underlying assumptions of DEIB management. We would encourage
contributions to the above or to further issues that can be usefully raised in examining
DEIB discourses in India. We also seek papers that break new ground and outline new
directions for interdisciplinary conversation and diversity research.
This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be blind peer
reviewed. Submission will be taken to imply that a paper contains original work that
has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Authors should follow the journal's regular guidelines, as published in every
issue of the journal. Papers should be no longer than 6000 - 8000 words.
Call for papers released- April 1, 2023
Submission of papers- September 1, 2023
Editorial decision- December 1, 2023
Paper review will be an ongoing process to be completed by end of Dec 2023 or
the first quarter of 2024 (end of March 2024).
The issue will be available online in 2024 second half.
Prospective contributors are encouraged to discuss with the guest editors before the
submission date to discuss the suitability of their work for this publication.
For further information about the journal, and link to author guidelines and
submission, please visit the BPR web pages via: https://journals.sagepub.com/authorinstructions/BPR
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Rupashree Baral
Professor
IIT Madras, India
Chennai
+919840938692
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