Ajnesh Prasad

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Professor & GIEE Chair at Tecnológico de Monterrey

In this chapter, we study the nexus between class privilege and social inequality through management education. To do so, we conducted exercises with management students at an elite private business school in the Global South (i.e., Pakistan) with the specific intent to invoke reflexivity among these students about their own class privilege. These...

While management research on sexual harassment has offered important insights on its organizational antecedents and outcomes, it has remained empirically focused on explaining how the phenomenon manifests in the Global North. Drawing on findings from a multi-source qualitative study on sexual harassment in urban Pakistan, we move beyond the prevail...

Reflecting on our experiences in the academic profession, in this paper we offer insights on how to craft sustainable careers as minority academics. While there has been engaged interest amongst business school scholars to study the myriad challenges encountered by those academics who occupy minority identity categories, there has been far less con...

Decolonisation of the curriculum has attracted substantial attention from university educators, especially from those based in countries implicated by colonialism. Among academics in schools of business and management, there is increasing recognition of the need to decolonise management knowledge production, pedagogical practice and the development...

Land grabbing intensified as a global phenomenon between 2007 and 2009, driven by entities from major economic centers acquiring vast parcels of land in low-income regions across Africa, Asia, and South America. Proponents argue that large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) deliver significant socioeconomic and environmental benefits by replacing inef...

In this editorial, we close the 55th anniversary issue of Management Learning. We outline our rationale for this anniversary issue and reflect on the substantial contributions made by the journal over the course of its history. We focus particularly on how the journal has fostered intellectual space to enrich extant critical and reflexive knowledge...

In this editorial, I introduce Transcending Boundaries—the newest section of Gender, Work & Organization. Transcending Boundaries aims to reimagine the possibilities of scholarship. It is intended to be experimental, subversive, and provocative—all the while, unapologetically presenting ideas that dislocate the hegemonic narratives, which currently...

AMLE Special Issue call for papers

In this editorial on the special issue of the contemporary consumption of religion, we unpack the spectrum of continuity and changes in the theorization of the consumption and function of religion in marketing and consumer research. We explain how the papers in this special issue extend theory by bringing new answers to old and new questions, and s...

The ‘Provocations Essay’, formerly ‘Provocations to Debate’, was a section of the journal conceived eight years ago, ‘. . . to provide a forum for essay-like, polemical writing on important and topical issues concerning management learning, education and knowledge in organisations’ (Brewis and Bell, 2020: 533). With new Editors-in-Chief and a new P...

Plagiarism accusations have become increasingly politicized over the last few years. In this article, we raise some of our concerns with how vacuous plagiarism accusations are now part of the arsenal of anti-woke politics. Revisiting the recent case of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, we identify the implications such accus...

Among the most pervasive issues currently debated in the social sciences pertains to scientific misconduct. The discourse on scientific misconduct has burgeoned in the last three decades and has come to permeate multiple arenas, including academia, industry, and public policy. While interest in this area has imparted critical insights into understa...

Workplace incivility is experienced ubiquitously by immigrants. While a growing body of literature has sought to identify the causes and the outcomes of this phenomenon, what remains largely underexplored is the role of legal status in configuring how workplace incivility manifests in the immigrant experience. To advance the extant literature, in t...

The aim of this article is to revisit the racial disparities in health outcomes from COVID-19 and to problematize the overly simplified attribution of these numbers to race. This article calls for a deeper understanding of society’s wider economic arrangements in which these racial disparities are produced. It considers why a proposed public-policy...

This chapter discusses the concept of the 'model minority'.

Using the persecution of Muslims in India that is currently taking place against the backdrop of the COVID-19 global pandemic as an illustrative case, this essay identifies the dynamics of the organization of ideological discourse by populist leaders in times of unexpected crisis. The organization of ideological discourse represents strategic, disc...

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that, compared with their counterparts in other disciplines, leading management journals and professional associati...

In the last few years, we have witnessed growing backlash against “wokeness” from numerous actors. Indeed, politicians, social commentators, corporate executives, and academics have all taken aim at the concept. In this Exchange article, we respond to the recent criticisms laid against “woke” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) scholarship and p...

Paulo Freire is widely acknowledged as one of the leading 20th-century philosophers of education. Freire’s ideas have been leveraged by scholars across the social sciences, including in the field of organization studies where it has come to inform extant understandings of management learning and education. While such engagements with Freire have en...

The undocumented immigrant represents a socio-legal category, referring to a subject who does not have legal standing to be in the country in which they are located. Extending from their lack of legal standing, undocumented immigrant workers in the United States occupy spaces marked by extreme conditions of vulnerability, which were exacerbated by...

How is social inequality reproduced through day-to-day practices? In this commentary, we use the geographical context of Mexico City to argue that social inequality is maintained by “class work” of elites. Specifically, we discuss how (1) urban planning crystallizes class boundaries, (2) private school education reproduces them, and (3) tipping pre...

In this editorial, we identify some of the opportunities and the consequences of generative artificial intelligence for academia. We discuss how generative artificial intelligence will affect the three main areas of an academic’s job responsibilities: research, teaching and service. To animate our ideas, we offer illustrative examples of how genera...

Purpose This study revisits the discourse on the neoliberalization of business schools and explores how accreditation-linked institutional pressures catalyze cultural change that adversely impact academic labor and academic subjectivities in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews wi...

Knowledge production in the discipline of management and organization studies (MOS) is in a labyrinth of its own making. Over the last 30years, scholars in the discipline have exhibited an intransigent obsession with the theoretical contribution. At this juncture, with Organization about to commence its fourth decade in publication, I would like to...

Drawing on in-depth interview data from an Islamic orthodox social movement in Pakistan, we investigate how participants invoke religious ideology to forge anti-consumption behaviour in opposition to prevailing cultural norms. We identify anti-consumption behaviour fuelled by foreign values, foreign lifestyles, Islamic values, and Islamic lifestyle...

While performativity, as a theoretical concept, has gained much purchase in the field of management and organization studies (MOS), there remains a dearth of empirical work operationalizing the idea. In this article, we argue that empirical studies on performativity in organizational settings have been scarce mainly due to two methodological challe...

Racism is inscribed onto the mind of the racialized subject. This essay represents my attempt at making sense of the psychological costs levied by the racism that materializes from living in a culture of hegemonic whiteness. My analysis is informed by Frantz Fanon's writings and, particularly, his concept of corporeal malediction. Corporeal maledic...

Although management scholars have devoted considerable attention in conceptualizing how diversity manifests in various organizational outcomes, several aspects of diversity remain undertheorized. In this article, I examine the model minority—a specific, understudied racialized other. To make sense of the position of the model minority in the contem...

Panel The changing dynamics of doctoral education across continents 16th Congress 7 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2022 International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) 16TH CONGRESS 7 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2022 International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM)

The purpose of this study is to investigate how sexual identity is constructed among gay fashion consumers in Hong Kong through myriad consumption practices. We employed ethnographic research methods and conducted thirteen in-depth interviews with gay male consumers in Hong Kong to examine the relationship between identity and lifestyle consumption...

This article draws on an in-depth narrative of a Chinese woman, early career researcher based in a UK business school, to consider questions of subtle racism in academia. Specifically, engaging with our informant’s testimony, and reading it in the context of critical organizational debates on race, we offer episodic accounts of the subtle racism th...

Extant research on dirty work—occupations involving physical, social or moral taint, which affect worker identities—has been read primarily through the lens of social identity theory (SIT). There are two notable shortcomings that emerge as a consequent of dirty work being too heavily reliant upon the precepts of SIT, which we seek to remedy in this...

As we write this editorial in January 2022, we look back on 2021 and we look ahead to another year of curating Management Learning together with a fantastic team of Associate Editors, a wonderful Editorial Assistant, a supportive publisher, and the community of International Editorial Board members , reviewers, and, of course, our readers. We have...

In this article, we study the nexus between class privilege and social inequality through management education. To do so, we conducted a set of exercises with management students at an elite private business school located in the Global South (i.e., Pakistan) with the specific intent to invoke reflexivity among these students about their own class...

Drawing on in-depth interview data from an Islamic orthodox social movement inPakistan, we investigate how participants invoke religious ideology to forge anti-consumptionbehavior that operates in opposition to cultural norms and expectations.

This Special Issue encourages academic debate around how social and gendered inequalities exacerbate under times of bio-political and socioeconomic crises-such as the COVID-19 pandemic-in an increasingly globalized and transnational world. Exploring interconnections between feminist philosophy, art and activism, we call for a wide range of methodol...

The #MeToo and the Time's Up movements have captured the urgency to address systemic manifestations of sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny in all aspects of society. Among the myriad discourses that have been catalyzed by these contemporaneous movements includes one related to the role of men in achieving gender egalitarianism. Men are allocated unear...

Over the last decade, scholars across the wide spectrum of the discipline of sociology have started to reengage with questions on morality and moral phenomena. The continued wave of research in this field, which has come to be known as the new sociology of morality, is a lively research program that has several common grounds with scholarship in th...

Ajnesh Prasad and Ghazal Zulfiqar had the opportunity to interview Professor Cynthia Enloe—feminist, social justice activist, and the plenary speaker for the Critical Management Studies division at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. The contents of the interview are presented in this article. The interview is based on an initial...

Using the persecution of Muslims in India that is currently taking place against the backdrop of the COVID-19 global pandemic as an illustrative case, this essay identifies the dynamics of the organization of ideological discourse by populist leaders in times of unexpected crisis. The organization of ideological discourse represents strategic, disc...

As cases of COVID-19 were rising in India and the country’s political leadership instituted a nationwide lockdown, one of the authors of this article received a timely invitation from a friend – a government official – to make rounds with him and his team to various neighbourhoods within the metropolitan city of Bangalore. The team consisted of mem...

While the early years of the second-wave feminist movement were preoccupied with addressing the interests of white, middle- and upper-class, heterosexual women, the 1980s was an epoch that was punctuated by an invigorated form of representational politics for feminist theorizing and feminist practice. Among the voices that were interjected into the...

In this article, we illuminate how a consumption practice in an ephemeral religious organization subverts systems of economic inequality that otherwise prevail in, and structure, society. Drawing on a rich ethnographic study in Pakistan, we show how the practice of food consumption in the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ)—an Islamic organization originating in...

The aim of this essay is to illuminate the lived experiences of Victoria—an undocumented immigrant woman of Mexican origin working and living in the United States. Drawing on an in-depth interview conducted with Victoria following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, we identify a set of discursive and material conditions...

The #MeToo and the Time’s Up movements have raised the issue of sexual harassment encountered by women to the level of public consciousness. Together, these movements have captured not only the ubiquity of sexual harassment in the everyday functioning of the workplace, but they have also demonstrated how women are silenced about their experiences o...

Scholars have increasingly recognized how efforts among business schools to attain or maintain accreditation from external agencies (i.e. Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [AACSB]) have engendered myriad consequences on the experiences of academic faculty members. Extant research that has investigated this phenomenon empirically...

In this article, we revisit Russell Belk, Guliz Ger and Soren Askegaard's study on consumer desire. We do so in an effort to further advance the extant understanding of desire in consumer research. Specifically, informed by Lacanian psychoanalytic thought and sharing much affinity with Foucault's central argument in The History of Sexuality, we con...

This article underscores the need for entrepreneurship research in extreme contexts to conceptualize the idiosyncrasies of the geopolitical dynamics under which entrepreneurs operate, and to consider the ethical implications emanating thereof. Undertaking such a task will illuminate the contextual challenges that local entrepreneurs must routinely...

In the field of organization studies, little consideration has thus far been devoted to the study of literature. The lacuna in the extant scholarship is unfortunate insofar as there is much to be gained for researchers interested in understanding organization to critically engage with literature. As an illustrative example of how literature can inf...

The political rise of right-wing populism in the United States, and elsewhere, has prompted a reexamination of theoretical perspectives that oscillate on an unequivocal rejection of objective reality. Indeed, populist campaigns that have acquired wide currency in the last few years have been ontologically predicated on the idea that there exists di...

This chapter concludes the book by applying reflexivity to my experiences in teaching a doctoral seminar on qualitative research methods. This chapter considers how autoethnography might be pedagogically approached. It underscores the need for professors to situate themselves in positions of vulnerability by offering autoethnographic evidence of th...

As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics. This book offers exemplars of how autoethnography can be leveraged to study myriad organization and management phenomena. Drawing on his own fieldwork in Palestine, the author engages with several timely questions including: What are the eth...

This chapter documents a problematic ethnographic encounter that I experienced while conducting fieldwork in the neo-colonized space of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Through autoethnography and reflexivity, I describe how the encounter begins to illuminate the surfacing of prejudices that were originally enacted by oppressive neo-colonial s...

As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics. This book offers exemplars of how autoethnography can be leveraged to study myriad organization and management phenomena. Drawing on his own fieldwork in Palestine, the author engages with several timely questions including: What are the eth...

The aim of this chapter is threefold. First, I describe the intellectual origins of autoethnography. Second, I define autoethnography as a method for social inquiry. Third, I describe the layout of this book. This chapter is intended to foreground the subsequent chapters, which draw on my fieldwork in Palestine to offer glimpses into how I have lev...

This chapter situates the nexus between reflexivity and fieldwork through autoethnographic analysis. Specifically, drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial thought, this chapter utilizes introspective data from field research conducted in the occupied Palestinian territories to explore how Qalandiya—a neo-colonial militarized border crossing betw...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential of visual (i.e. non-textual) research methods in community-based participatory research. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on a case illustration of a photo- and video-voice campaign involving rural communities in British Columbia, Canada. Findings The authors find that...

The perplexing relationship between two of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, has been the subject of much speculation within academic circles. For Arendt, Heidegger was at once, her mentor, her lover, and her friend. In this paper, we juxtapose Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil against he...

In the last decade, scholars in the field of organization and management studies have expressed much interest in responding to economic inequality–a phenomenon that led to what some commentators label the crisis of capitalism. While engagements with this topic offered important insights into how organizations are implicated in the propagation of ec...

Erving Goffman’s concept of total institutions has been seldom explored in terms of how it restricts or promotes consumption practices. In an effort to redress the lacuna in the extant literature, this article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of the Tablighi Jamaat, an orthodox religious organization originating in South Asia, whose p...

Writing as an ideological act of resistance and recognition among members of the socially disenfranchised has been engaged with in myriad contested political and cultural terrains. Historically, for Palestinian refugees living under conditions of Israeli occupation, expressions of resistance and recognition were visually and textually inscribed thr...

Can a simple consumption activity challenge normative systems of inequality? Using a qualitative approach, this paper illustrates how the act of sharing a meal in a religious setting can ostensibly reduce deeply entrenched notions of difference due to economic disparity.

The paper expresses deep concern for the paucity of critical accounting scholarship in the contemporary period that can only be deemed hyper-racial (Alim and Reyes, 2011). By reflecting on how the concept of race has been mobilized in the critical accounting literature, we identify the contours of extant accounting research on race and we discuss t...

The question of how race manifests at work in postcolonial contexts has been an understudied phenomenon by management and organization studies researchers. This article seeks to address the void in the extant literature by drawing on the rich experiences of a visible minority investment banker who worked in several countries with colonial legacies....

The question of how race manifests at work in postcolonial contexts has been an understudied phenomenon by management and organization studies researchers. This article seeks to address the void in the extant literature by drawing on the rich experiences of a visible minority investment banker who worked in several countries with colonial legacies....

To encourage new research on the role of institutions in the entrepreneurial process in less developed countries (LDCs), the authors propose a conceptual framework to investigate concurrent institutional constraints. The authors define these constraints as geopolitical contexts that encounter simultaneous challenges to well functioning formal and i...

Prior studies have made important strides in understanding the drivers of gender bias facing women at the top. Yet, relatively little is known about the intra-organizational power dynamics of how and why these patterns still persist despite plethora initiatives to redress the phenomenon over the last several decades. This paper develops an intra-or...

Purpose The editorial introduces the special issue entitled, “Voices at/from the margins: Articulating the consequences of international business”. Design/methodology/approach The editorial begins by briefly describing how the idea for the special issue was initiated and then provides an overview of the articles included. Findings The editorial c...

Purpose The aim of this article is to encourage critical scholars of international business (IB) to engage with scholarship that turns to practice and situates knowledges. The paper contends that such undertakings have the potential to constructively politicize research in the field of international business. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

Extending the works of scholars who have elucidated writing as the quintessential site for social transformation, the aim of this article is to locate the myriad possibilities for actualizing Donna Haraway's concept of cyborg writing in the field of organization studies. I contend that cyborg writing functions as a discursive mechanism by which to...

The burgeoning economic inequality between the richest and the poorest is a cause of concern for social, political, and ethical reasons. While businesses are both implicated and affected by growing inequality, business schools have largely neglected to subject the phenomenon to sufficient critique. This is, in part, because far too many management...