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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

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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

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With apologies for cross-listing… We would like to bring to your
attention a publication that might be of interest:

Sub-theme 53: Power and difference in organizations: Turning to
ancient Greek philosophy, drama and mythology in search of new meanings

31st EGOS Colloquium, 2-4 July, Athens, Greece

Deadline for submission of short papers: Monday, January 12, 2015

Convenors:
Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School & Manchester Business School, UK
Marianna.Fotaki@wbs.ac.uk
Nancy Harding, Bradford University School of Management, UK
n.h.harding@bradford.ac.uk
Olivia Kyriakidou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
okyriakidou@aueb.gr

Ancient Greek philosophy, drama and mythology have been fertile
sources of inspiration for philosophy, critical social theory,
psychoanalysis and feminist thinking. Indeed, Steiner (1984) argues
that the problems that bedevil Western culture originate in the entry
of Ancient Greek drama and mythology into the syntax and semantics of
European languages and thus condition what it is possible to think,
speak and write. Management and organization theory has indirectly or
implicitly drawn upon these resources – the language we use and the
philosophers who inspire us draw upon them (McCarthy, 2003), but there
has been little explicit engagement. This sub-theme invites engagement
with classic myths, stories and ideas so as to explore ways of
re-articulating and re-thinking subjectivity, the self, difference and
the politics of difference in organizations and society.
The Call intends specifically to disrupt, subvert and play with the
inherited and taken for granted ideas of femininity, hierarchy,
organization, body and otherness by tracing the influence of Greek
Antiquity upon organizational thought. The aim is to re-position,
re-ject, re-write and re-inscribe contemporary identities. Its
inspiration is Cixous’ (1976) use of Medusa to redefine symbols of
femininity (Cixous, 1976) and Butler’s (2000) reading of Antigone to
rethink kinship relations (Butler, 2000) (but see also Mitchell
[2000], and Zajko and Leonard, 2008]). We invite theoretical and
empirical contributions, broadly construed, concerning bodies
(sexuality, gender, dis-ability, age), social class, ethnicity or the
experience of dispossession (slavery, homelessness, unemployment,
statelessness and migration). The suggestions below are indicative and
not exhaustive;
- What new bodies of knowledge or new ways of speaking of and
within organizations become possible with new interpretations of the
philosophies, myths and dramas?
- How are contemporary notions of difference, including race,
gender and various forms of dispossession, informed by the male
imaginary of ancient Greek aesthetics and theoretical apparatus? How
can we use this knowledge to bring about social and organizational
change?
- What new ways of speaking that offer an avenue for
emancipatory practice emerge through re-reading the Ancient Greek
heritage?

References
Butler, J. Antigone’s claim. New York: Columbia University Press. 2000.
Cixous, H. ‘The laugh of the Medusa’. Trans. Cohen, K and Cohen, P.
Signs. 1976, 1, 4, 875-893.
McCarthy, G.E. Classical horizons. The origins of sociology in Ancient
Greece. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003.
Mitchell, J. Mad men and medusas. London and New York. 2000.
Steiner, G. Antigones. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1984
Zajko, V. and Leonard, M. (Eds). (2008) Laughing with Medusa:
Classical myth and feminist thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

For further information:
http://www.egosnet.org/2015_athens/subthemes_call_for_short_papers

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