Hello GDO Listserv Members,
The following is All Academy Symposium on Inequality and the New Employment Relationship announcement is posted on behalf of Isabel Fernandez-Mateo <
ifernandezmateo@london.edu>.
Hope to see you in Orlando!
Dianne Murphy
AOM GDO Listserv Manager
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear colleagues.
If you are attending the AOM Annual Meeting, we would like to bring to your attention the following All-Academy Symposium . Please consider joining us:
Inequality and the New Employment Relationship
Sunday, August 11, 2013, 3-4:30 pm
WDW Dolphin Resort, Oceanic 7
Sponsor: All-Academy Theme (“Capitalism in Question”)
Panelists:
James N. Baron , Yale School of Management
Stephen Barley , Stanford University
Bruce Kogut , Columbia Business School
Organizers:
Matthew J. Bidwell, U. of Pennsylvania
Forrest Briscoe, Pennsylvania State U.
Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, London Business School
Adina D. Sterling, Washington U. in St Louis
Recent decades have seen substantial changes in the nature of US Capitalism, as shareholders have grown in influence over organizations, while the collective power of workers to determine their employment conditions has declined precipitously. Partly as a consequence, we have seen a growth of various market related practices such as outsourcing, contingent work, incentive pay and so on, as well as a rise of identity based social movement issues.
This symposium will discuss what these employment changes mean for social inequality. We will begin by summarizing the state of research on how current employment practices shape inequality. Three eminent scholars in the area will then respond with brief remarks about how evolutions in the nature of capitalism are affecting inequality, about what key questions we need to be studying, and about what policy responses might improve the outcomes for all stakeholders. We intend that much of the time should be given over to discussion. Our plan is therefore to spend the second half of the session engaging in a moderated discussion with panelists and the audience on what the key questions are around inequality and the new employment relationship, and what role scholars might play in exploring alternatives to the current set of capitalist employment relationships.
For more details and to add the session to your online program:
http://program.aom.org/2013/submission.asp?mode=showsession&SessionID=176
We hope to see you there next month!
Matthew Bidwell, Forrest Briscoe, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and Adina Sterling