Dear OMT Community,
Please join us for the upcoming presenter symposium 19713: Racial Segregation at Work and Economic Outcomes: Causes and Consequences of Organizational Sorting
Add it to your AOM schedule here: https://cdmcd.co/vaA8WR
🗓️ Tuesday, July 29, 2025
🕐 15:30 – 17:00 CEST (GMT+2)
📍 Bella Center, MR17
📣 Scholars interested in racial segregation, organizational features, and economic outcomes.
This symposium will assemble novel research on the causes and effects of between-organization racial segregation. One set of presentations complicates our theories about the mechanisms underlying racial segregation in organizations and markets. Another set of presentations contributes to our understanding of what sorting means for the economic outcomes of racial minorities and the composition of high-status occupations. These findings supply scope conditions, new mechanisms, and new results for previous theories of racial sorting.
👥 Intro:
🎙️ Clem Aeppli (Harvard) and Victoria Zhang (MIT)
👥 Discussion:
🎙️ JP Ferguson (McGill University)
👥 Presenters:
🎙️ Janet Xu (Stanford GSB): "Organizational Diversity Rationales and Job Seeker Behavior" with Jordan Starck (Stanford University)
🎙️ Victoria Yiluan Zhang (MIT): "Customers as a Constraint: Minority Entrepreneurship in U.S. Street Level Marketplaces"
🎙️ Clem Aeppli (Harvard): "Firm Segregation and the Structure of Racial Earnings Inequality (Stanford MS&E)
🎙️ Alicia Sheares (Standford): " Resource Acquisition among Black Entrepreneurs: The Role of Immigration and Human Capital" with April Burrage (Stanford MS&E)
Together, we will explore how organizations facilitate and supplant racial segregation and new ways of understanding structural inequality, entrepreneurial outcomes, and economic mobility.
Come join the discussion - we'd love to see you there and exchange ideas!
Cheers,
Victoria and Clem
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Victoria Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA
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