Series 2, Episode 41: When do diversity initiatives exacerbate rather than mitigate bias and inequality? with Professor Karin Hellerstedt and Professor Timur Uman, Jönköping International Business School

In recent years, Diversity along with Equity and Inclusion have emerged as key elements of organisational and people strategy. It is now essentially a “taken for granted” assumption that DEI initiatives are a good thing and that they in turn play an important role in reducing bias and inequality in the workplace. But is this really the case?

To explore this further I am delighted to be joined today by Professor Karin Hellerstedt and Professor Timur Uman, both of Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, who were co-authors with Karl Wennberg of Linkoping University of a recent paper published in Academy of Management Perspectives.

About our guests...

Karin Hellerstedt is a Senior Associate Professor at Jönköping International Business School.

Karin has conducted research on entrepreneurship in knowledge intensive industries, and on how firms and teams are formed and develop over time.

She has been involved in several research projects dealing with different aspects of entrepreneurship such as academic, rural and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. Karin Hellerstedt has written and published several research reports and published in international peer review journals.

Her current research centers around ownership transitions and the succession of privately held businesses.

Timur Uman is a Professor in Accounting and Control at Jönköping International Business School.

Timur’s research deals with corporate governance and management control in stock listed corporation, hybrid and public organizations and new ventures. His work has been published in premier journals in Business Administration such as Corporate Governance: An International Review, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of World Business and Long-Range Planning among others. 

Prior to joining academia Timur worked in executive positions in Latvian and German companies dealing with financial management and planning.

The paper discussed in the interview is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4308670

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