We would like to draw your attention to EGOS 2025 Sub-theme 36:
Societal Hierarchy: How Creative Ideas and Approaches Disrupt (or Maintain) Social Class and Caste
For a detailed call, visit: https://tinyurl.com/mu3yacah
This sub-theme explores how creative ideas and approaches can disrupt (or maintain) social hierarchies in and around organizations. Specifically, it focuses on two societal hierarchies that underpin economic inequality: social class and caste.
Class and caste, as invisible inequalities, manifest as "uneven possession of and access to resources and opportunities to engage in value creation, appropriation, and distribution based on attributes and characteristics that are not readily apparent or noticeable" (Bapuji et al., 2023: 2). The invisibility per se often creates avenues for creativity in both disrupting and maintaining them.
Against a backdrop of growing economic disparity – often reflected in and sustained by class and caste hierarchies – research on them has the potential to elucidate how to disrupt inequality in more creative ways and enact more equitable outcomes, ultimately imagining new ways forward.
We invite conceptual and empirical papers that explore creative ways to disrupt class- and caste-based hierarchies. To the extent that disruption requires revealing the often taken-for-granted and invisible class- and caste-based hierarchies, we also invite conceptual and empirical papers that consider how these hierarchies are creatively maintained.
Conference Details
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: July 3-5, 2025
Deadline for short paper submission: January 7, 2025
*Short paper submissions are max 3,000 words, all-inclusive
Questions? Feel free to contact a sub-theme convenor:
Kristie Moergen
Iowa State University, USA
kjnm@iastate.edu
Jennifer Kish-Gephart
University of Massachusetts, USA
jkishgephart@isenberg.umass.edu
Vivek Soundararajan
University of Bath, United Kingdom
vs602@bath.ac.uk
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Vivek Soundararajan
Associate Professor
University of Bath
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