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Journal of Business Ethics, 2018

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has generally been recognized as corporate pro-social behav... more Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has generally been recognized as corporate pro-social behavior aimed at remediating social issues external to organizations, while political CSR has acknowledged the political nature of such activity beyond social aims. Despite the growth of this literature, there is still little attention given to gender as the starting point for a conversation on CSR, ethics, and the Global South. Deploying critical insights from feminist work in postcolonial traditions, I outline how MNCs replicate gendered neocolonialist discourses and perpetuate exploitative material dependences between Global North/South through CSR activities. Specifically, I address issues of neocolonial relations, subaltern agency, and ethics in the context of gendered global division of labor through the exemplar of Rana Plaza and its aftermath. In all, I offer new directions for CSR scholarship by attending to the intersections of gender, ethics, and responsibility as they relate to corporate actions in the Global South.

In this article, we consider a recent trend whereby private equity available from venture capital... more In this article, we consider a recent trend whereby private equity available from venture capital (VC) firms is being deployed toward mission-driven initiatives in the form of impact investing. Acting as hybrid organizations, these impact investors aim to achieve financial results while also targeting companies and funds to achieve social impact. However, potential mission drift in these VCs, which we define as a decoupling between the investments made (means) and intended aims (ends), might become detrimental to the simultaneous financial and social goals of such firms. Based on a content analysis of mission statements, we assess mission drift and the hybridization level of VC impact investors by examining their missions (ends/goals) and their investment practices (means) through the criteria of social and financial logic. After examining eight impact-oriented VC investors and their investments in 164 companies, we find mission drift manifest as a disparity between the means and ends in half of the VC impact investors in our sample. We discuss these findings and make suggestions for further studies.

Guided by feminist perspectives, we critique existing approaches to the study of women’s entrepre... more Guided by feminist perspectives, we critique existing
approaches to the study of women’s entrepreneurship
on epistemological grounds and suggest
that the entrepreneurship field needs to recognize
gendered assumptions in theorizing. Deploying a feminist
framework, we suggest that understanding the “gender gap” in
entrepreneurship requires focus on institutional and structural
barriers women entrepreneurs face. Existing studies of women
entrepreneurs often compare women with men without considering
how gender and gender relations impact the very concepts
and ideas of entrepreneurship. We propose, therefore, a conceptualization
of entrepreneurship that illuminates gender bias
and calls attention to the interrelated individual, institutional,
and structural barriers in the entrepreneurial process that arrive
out of societal and cultural gender norms. Through praxis
or engaged practice, we redirect scholarship in the entrepreneurship
field, while proposing ways that can promote gender
equality in entrepreneurial activities. In all, our gender integrative
conceptualization of entrepreneurship contributes to the
entrepreneurship field by recognizing and addressing a more
expansive realm of influential factors within the entrepreneurial
ecosystem that have previously been researched separately

Purpose – The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship rese... more Purpose – The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship research and practice to challenge existing assumptions and approaches while providing new directions for research at the intersections of gender, social and commercial entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply liberal feminist, socialist feminist and transnational/post-colonial feminist perspectives to critically examine issues of gender in the field of social entrepreneurship. Findings – By way of three distinct feminist lenses, the analyses suggest that the social entrepreneurship field does not recognize gender as an organizing principle in society. Further to this, a focus on women within this field replicates problematic gendered assumptions underlying the field of women's entrepreneurship research. Practical implications – The arguments and suggestions provide a critical gender perspective to inform the strategies and programmes adopted by practitioners and the types of research questions entrepreneurship scholars ask. Social implications – The authors redirect the conversation away from limited status quo approaches towards the explicit and implicit aim of social entrepreneurship and women's entrepreneurship: that is, economic and social equality for women across the globe. Originality/value – The authors explicitly adopt a cultural, institutional and transnational analysis to interrogate the intersection of gender and social entrepreneurship.

While entrepreneurship may be driven by personal interests and lifestyle choices, entrepreneurial... more While entrepreneurship may be driven by personal interests and lifestyle choices, entrepreneurial actions are not only economically driven opportunity-searching processes but also enactments of social transformation that may or may not lead to socioeconomic benefits. We advance that exploring these entrepreneurial processes can inform a theory of the firm that may explain how socioeconomic processes shape the socioeco- nomic environment of communities while serving individuals. This article discusses several understandings of the firm, as theorized in extant literature. Guided by these different conceptualizations, we present a case study of an artist and artisan cluster in Western Massachusetts to demonstrate various understandings of entrepreneurial processes. By way of conclusion, we develop the idea of the firm as a geographically embed- ded relational understanding aiding entrepreneurs to achieve personal goals while coconstructing their local environment

The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations, 2015

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 2013

This chapter draws boundaries to define the contours of the contemporary transnational diversity ... more This chapter draws boundaries to define the contours of the contemporary transnational diversity in organizations scholarly literature. It is not intended as an exhaustive review of what may have now become an incommensurable literature; rather, it delineates a temporary holding space for understanding this shifting territory while exploring a few relevant examples. As a taxonomical exercise, it follows the formation and transformation of the subject of 'diversity in organizations' as it travelled beyond the original literature from the USA. It articulates four modes of diffusion occurring over time: internationalizing diversity; provincializing diversity; the simultaneity of diversity; and the formation of mobile subjectivities. The conclusion forwards the incommensurability of these perspectives as independent contributions, suggesting that anyone intending to represent 'diversity and organizations' in the contemporary world should consider the value of maintaining in view a repertoire of very different ontological perspectives on diversity, as well as a postidentitarian transnational understanding.