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FOOLED BY DIVERSITY?: WHEN DIVERSITY INITIATIVES EXACERBATE RATHER THAN MITIGATE BIAS AND INEQUALITY
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Business Administration. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3998-1515
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Business Administration. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8938-2150
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
2024 (English)In: Academy of Management Perspectives, ISSN 1558-9080, E-ISSN 1943-4529, Vol. 38, no 1, p. 23-42Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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To advance the discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, we analyze the management literature and examples of advocacy practices inspired by the three DEI logics of moral justice, business case, and power activism. By identifying litigation, self-interest, and coercion as the mechanisms driving change within these logics, we show how the concept of diversity is approached differently in the three logics. Based on this discussion, we explain why diversity has taken precedence over equity and inclusion in both research and practice. We further show how the tensions between DEI logics inform diversity initiatives and exacerbate rather than mitigate bias and inequality. To rejuvenate scholarly and managerial debates around DEI initiatives and address managerial biases to focus on the wrong things, we discuss what could be learned from the rationales of such initiatives, including how one can be fooled into focusing on diversity at the expense of equity and inclusion.

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Academy of Management , 2024. Vol. 38, no 1, p. 23-42
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63854DOI: 10.5465/amp.2021.0206ISI: 001195994100006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186568249OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-63854DiVA, id: diva2:1845899
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Torsten Söderbergs stiftelse, E5/14Available from: 2024-03-20 Created: 2024-03-20 Last updated: 2024-04-29Bibliographically approved

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