We cordially invite you to submit a paper on this topic for the EURAM conference by 7 January 2026.
The European Academy of Management conference will take place from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 June 2026 at the University of Agder's School of Business and Law in Kristiansand, Norway.
Proponents:
Thomas Köllen, University of Bern, IOP, Switzerland, thomas.koellen@iop.unibe.ch
Aidan McKearney, Hult International Business School, UK, aidan.mckearney@faculty.hult.edu
Mustafa Ozbilgin, Brunel Business School, UK, mustafa.ozbilgin@brunel.ac.uk
Strategic Interest Group 5:
Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO)
https://conferences.euram.academy/2026conference/
T05_06 - Queer Perspectives: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Plurality of Self-Concepts in Organisations
This track encourages researchers to submit contributions that broaden the understanding of both issues related to employees' sexual orientation (such as being bisexual, lesbian, gay, and also on heterosexuality), and issues that are specifically related to transgender or intersex employees. We particularly encourage submissions that challenge the cis-hetero-binarist hegemony in management studies, and theorise sexual orientation and queer identities as fundamental dimensions of organisational life, deserving of rigorous and expansive conceptual attention within management theory.
We invite scholars to submit papers that address LGBTI and plurality issues from a variety of different perspectives. Possible research questions may address:
· Understanding more fully the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or intersex employees from an intersectional perspective
· Assessing the impact of place, space and context (e.g. international working, geographical and cultural habitus) on LGBTI workplace experiences
· Processes of (de)categorization in employees' identity formation/management
· Exploring the general plurality of self-concepts in terms of workplace diversity
· How sexual orientation or gender identity may affect career paths as well as career aspirations (e.g. preferring "supporting role" jobs or stereotype-congruent jobs, low- profile jobs, non-elected jobs, etc.)
· Addressing recent roll-back of LGBTI rights and examining how organizations are responding
· Evaluations of diversity management activities in terms of various individual or organizational outcomes
· Examining the role of leadership in building inclusive organization cultures for LGBTI people
· Exploration of the intersection of multiple stigmatized identities of LGBTI people.
· Theoretical considerations on L, G, B, T, and/or I- related issues in organizations.
· Sexual harassment of LGBTI employees
· Experience of microaggressions of LGBTI employees within the workplace
Submission deadline: Wednesday 7 January 2026 (2 pm Belgian time).
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Dr. Thomas Köllen
IOP, University of Bern, Switzerland
thomas.koellen@unibe.ch
www.koellen.eu
www.iop.unibe.ch
Editor of the book series Diversity and Inclusion Research
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