Stigma and breakout success – the unbreakable glass ceiling

Pankaj Anand; Prateek  Raj

Stigma and breakout success – the unbreakable glass ceiling

Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship, Strategy And Innovation

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Abstract

Opportunities for socialization are critical for breakout success in business. In this paper, we document that business owners from stigmatized communities, specifically Dalits in India, are less successful in business - measured as belonging in the top 5 percentile of businesses by income - even if they have a similar socioeconomic background to other business owners. Such a gap in business success does not exist for other underrepresented and socially disadvantaged communities, like Adivasis and Muslims, that do not face stigma. We document that this gap is accentuated in more relational industries

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2022
Event	EGOS 2022: 38th Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria Duration: 7 Jul 2022 → 9 Jul 2022 https://www.egos.org/2022_Vienna/General-Theme

Conference

Conference	EGOS 2022: 38th Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	7/07/22 → 9/07/22
Internet address	https://www.egos.org/2022_Vienna/General-Theme

Keywords

stigma
business
socially disadvantaged communities

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