Organisation Studies Publishing is Racist: A Call for change

Ricardo Twumasi; Oliver Runswick

doi:10.31234/osf.io/bx84j

Organisation Studies Publishing is Racist: A Call for change

Ricardo Twumasi^*, Oliver Runswick

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Abstract

This paper aims to call out the culpability of academic publishing within the field of organisation studies, and our role as academics in contributing to the lack of ethnically diverse voices in the upper echelons of academic publishing. We provide a summary audit of the ethnic diversity of Management and Organisation Studies (MOS) based on direct responses from 20 journal editors, and the estimated ethnicity of 30,277 contributors. We also provide some potential solutions and discuss what anti-racist publishing could look like. We conclude with a call to act up, with a range of recommendations to be tried and tested to build a more representative and inclusive academe of organization studies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	41-48
Journal	Stolen Tools
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bx84j https://doi.org/10.59745/st.v2i1.33
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2022

Keywords

Academic publishing
Discrimination
Organisation Studies
Racism

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