Organisation Studies Publishing is Racist: A Call for Change

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.