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CALL FOR PAPERS - T_01-02: Equality and Inclusion in Social
Enterprises - SIG: Business for Society
EURAM 2015, 17-20 JUNE, WARSAW
ORGANISERS
Dr Olivia Kyriakidou, Assistant Professor in Management and
Organizational Behavior, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece, email:
okyriakidou@aueb.gr
Dr Helen Salavou, Assistant Professor in Management, Athens University
of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, email:
esalav@aueb.gr
DESCRIPTION
Social enterprises have attracted wide academic and policy interest
recently as they are meant to play a crucial role in providing
services, employment and social capital in local economies. Social
enterprises are also claimed that can tackle inequality through social
inclusion programs and promoting diversity. However, little is known
about whether they achieve these claims in practice and the ways and
mechanisms they use in order to materialize and institutionalize such
claims. The present stream therefore examines the extent to which
social enterprises are tackling equality, inclusion and diversity
issues or whether they are reinforcing existing patterns of inequality.
Papers may include micro-level organizational studies as well as
societal and cultural analyses on a larger scale. Submissions may
address, but are not limited to, the following fields:
• Theorizing diversity management and inclusion in hybrid
organizations and social enterprises – How marginal identities are
constructed in social enterprise work settings? What type of
managerial behaviors in social enterprises might institutionalize
discriminatory or inclusionary practices in social enterprises? Are
there gender differences in the role of social entrepreneurship within
society?
• Gendered divisions of labor in social enterprises – Is there
a gendered division of labor in social enterprises? How is
“competence” understood in social enterprises and how does this affect
gendered divisions of work? Are there gender differences in pay in
social enterprises? How do gendered divisions of work affect women’s
and men’s career possibilities in social enterprises? Are there
different sectors of activities involving women and men within
different localities?
• Gender and leadership in social enterprises – What is the
gender structuring of social enterprises? Are there gendered
discourses of management and leadership in social enterprises? Are
there specific biases and gender-role stereotypes in leadership in
social enterprises? What is the representation of women in the
organizational governance of social enterprises? What are the reasons
and motivations of becoming a social entrepreneur and are there any
noticeable gender differences?
• Diversity management in social enterprises - How do social
enterprises formulate and administer diversity policies? How is
diversity addressed not only in terms of gender norms, but also ethnic
or religious composition? In the case of global social enterprises,
how do they formulate and administer diversity policies in locations
which differ substantially from those of their home country?
• Masculinities and femininities in social enterprises and
their relations – What are the personal characteristics of women and
men involved, including gender differences and specificities, but also
commonalities? Is business masculinity contested in social
enterprises? Are there variations in “doing” masculinities and
femininities in social enterprises? How do such variations in “doing”
masculinities and femininities affect interaction and cooperation both
within and between social enterprises?
• Work-life balance in social enterprise work at both national
and global scale – How is work-life balance conceptualized in social
enterprises? How do professionals in social enterprises address the
issues of work-life balance? How do they solve work-life problems?
What are the disruptions of work-life balance that are different from
those of employees employed by business corporations?
• Gender and local social enterprise cultures in different
parts of the world – How do national cultures regarding gender differ
around the globe and how these feed into social enterprises culture?
How do intersections with gender, such as education, ethnicity, race,
age, married status, religion etc., affect work in social enterprises
in different settings?
• Gendered patterns of mobility in social enterprises - When
and for whom is mobility – both moving “out” and moving “back home” –
an option in social enterprises? What restrictions on mobility are
faced by women and men? How does moving between locations affect
career progress, work satisfaction, work-life balance and family
relations of women and men in social enterprises? What do women and
men gain from being mobile and what do they lose?
• Equality and Inclusion: Success factors in new social
ventures / enterprises
Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2015 website, from
December 1st 2014 till January 13th 2015.
For more information, please visit the conference website www.euram2015.org