Unlearning diversity management

Aneta Hamza-Orlinska (), Jolanta Maj, Amanda Shantz and Joana Vassilopoulou
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Aneta Hamza-Orlinska: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Jolanta Maj: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Amanda Shantz: HSG - University of St.Gallen
Joana Vassilopoulou: Brunel University London [Uxbridge]

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Abstract: Organizational unlearning occurs when organizations cast-off knowledge, beliefs, or routines. A key assumption is that the discarded information inhibits organizational performance. This view ignores the possibility that organizations may intentionally unlearn practices that are useful for some stakeholders. Using qualitative methods over eight years, we studied the processes by which a subsidiary of a French multinational company (MNC) unlearned diversity management when it was sold to a Polish state owner. This case enables us to understand the processes by which organizations unlearn, the power of the institutional environment in shaping the abandonment of diversity management, once a subsidiary changes ownership.

Keywords: Diversity management; Multinational corporation; Organizational unlearning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Journal of World Business, 2024, 59 (2), pp.101519. ⟨10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101519⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101519

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