New Publication: “The Gendered Returns to Power”

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Mishra, S., J. Melin, L. J. Kray, and C. Anderson. 2026. “The Gendered Returns to Power: How Gender, Structural Power, and Perceived Resource Sufficiency Shape Meritocracy Perceptions in Organizations.” Journal of Organizational Behavior 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70122.

Abstract: Why do women remain underrepresented in positions of power? The present work leverages four studies (N = 99,293) spanning archival, qualitative, and experimental methods to surface one novel antecedent to this gender gap. Men (vs. women) tend to perceive their organizations as more meritocratic as a function of their structural power (Studies 1–2). This gender difference is statistically accounted for by the fact that men’s power is more often accompanied by perceived resource sufficiency, or the appraisal that one has adequate instrumental and material resources to meet role demands and exercise authority effectively (Studies 1–3). A preregistered experiment finds that higher (vs. lower) perceived resource sufficiency increases meritocracy perceptions, which in turn increase career investment intentions but weaken support for equity-enhancing initiatives (Study 4). Together, these findings reveal that structural power’s psychological consequences are not uniform across gender but depend on whether authority is accompanied by the resources needed to exercise power. The gender gap in power may thus reproduce itself, as women become less convinced that the system rewards their effort, whereas men with the authority to change organizational systems become least likely to see the need for change.

Call for Participants: Early-Career Sociologists and University Administrators at R1 Institutions

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Jennifer Krebsbach, a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, is conducting a study on how restrictive, external government-led policies are shaping the individual decisions made about teaching and research for early-career sociologists–and how university administrators are working to support their faculty. She is seeking two groups of participants for her study: assistant professors of sociology and administrators within colleges that house sociology programs–must be working at R1 institutions. Participation involves a 10-20 minute survey. Assistant professors have the additional option of being interviewed at a regional sociological conference in the upcoming year.

To participate in this research as an assistant professor, please click here. To participate in this research as a sociology Department Chair, or as an administrator (Dean, Assistant/Associate Dean) of the college that oversees a sociology department, please click here. If you have any questions about the research project or want to know more, please contact Jennifer M. Krebsbach, jkrebsbach@ucdavis.edu.

Job Posting: Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sociology of Organizations — Indiana University, Bloomington

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The Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington invites applications for an open-rank, tenured or tenure-track position beginning in Fall 2027. The department seeks a scholar with expertise in the sociology of organizations, interpreted broadly, who is committed to excellence in scholarship and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department is especially interested in candidates who use innovative methods in their research and can contribute to teaching in the undergraduate Management + Human Organization major, as well as to substantive and methods training in the graduate program. A Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment. 

Applicants should apply online at http://indiana.peopleadmin.com and submit a cover letter, CV, statements on research and teaching, one to three writing samples, and three letters of reference.

Review of applications will begin on October 16, 2026 and continue until the position is filled. Questions may be directed to Art Alderson, Department Chair (aralders@iu.edu), or Andrew Halpern-Manners, Chair of the Personnel Committee (ahm@iu.edu).

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Job Posting: Associate Professor or Professor of Organizational Behavior — Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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The Organizational Behavior group at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth invites applications for a tenured position at the rank of associate professor or professor. 

Applicants should have a doctorate in Organizational Behavior, Organization Theory, Management, Psychology, Sociology, or a related field. We seek candidates who produce research of excellent quality with high impact on the field, who can enhance the culture of the group and the intellectual environment of the school, and who are able to teach MBA students at a level of quality consistent with Tuck’s high standards.

Applications can be submitted at apply.interfolio.com/193209.  Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2026 and continue until the position is filled.

The Tuck School of Business, founded in 1900 and located in Hanover, New Hampshire, is the world’s first graduate school of business and is consistently ranked among the top ten business schools in the U.S.

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Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Sociology — University of Texas at Austin

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The Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for one tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, to begin Fall 2027. Areas of specialization are Crime, Law, and Justice, Political Sociology, or Economic Sociology, broadly defined. Duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching, including teaching in the Core Curriculum (particularly the “Foundations of Social Science”), supporting research, programs, and collaborative projects that drive innovation in research, and service to the department, college, and university.

Qualifications
Applicants must have completed all the requirements for the PhD by time of appointment, or they must expect to obtain the PhD within a year of joining the faculty as Instructor.

Application Instructions
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter that includes a description of current and planned research, teaching statement, current curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of reference to: Pamela Paxton, Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, via apply.interfolio.com.

The committee will begin reviewing applications on October 1, 2026, and continue until the position is filled.

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Position funding is subject to budget availability.

To apply, visit https://faculty.utexas.edu/career/191322.

Call for Abstracts: ISA RC17 Sociology of Organizations, Gwangju 2027

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The Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) invites abstract submissions for 27 themes at the upcoming ISA conference in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, July 4–10, 2027. The themes cover a wide range of current topics in organizational sociology.

XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
July 4-10, 2027

Deadline for abstract submissions: October 14, 2026, 23:59 UTC/GMT
Maximum abstract length: 300 words

The Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) invites abstracts for 27 themes open for abstract submissions, covering a wide range of current themes in organizational sociology.

Please find below the RC17 themes open for abstract submissions. Click on the theme title to read the full Call for Abstracts and submit your contribution.

·         Business and Society Relations In Twenty-First-Century East Asia
organized by Jiwook Jung

·         DEI, Aging, and Corporate Responsibility: Organizations, Discrimination, and the Care of Older Adults
organized by Soohan Kim

·         Diversity and Organizations – Debates from Transnational, National or Regional Perspectives
organized by Maja Apelt, Matthias Schneider and Nina Hossain

·         Educational Organizations, Diversity, and Digital Technologies: Examining Inclusion and Exclusion
organized by Svenja Hammer, Robert Aust and Caroline Vincent

·         Forging Global Alliances: Food Security, Preparedness, and Agroecological Resilience In Turbulent Times
organized by Allison Loconto and Hilde Bjørkhaug

·         Governing Digital Transformation In Organizations
organized by Angela Graf, Sabine Pfeiffer, Klarissa Lueg and Marco Blank

·         Meta-Organizations and Alternatives to Dominant Orders
organized by Héloïse Berkowitz, Florence Lanzi and Fabian Maier

·         Micro-Sociology of Organizations: What Can It Offer?
organized by Nadine Arnold and Lars Klemsdal

·         Organization and Expertise: Producing, Stabilizing, and Contesting Knowledge
organized by Kathia Serrano Velarde and Leopold Ringel

·         Organization, De-Institutionalization, and Alienation: Education, Care, and Welfare and the New Authoritarianism
organized by Dirk Michel-Schertges and Michael Grothe-Hammer

·         Organizational and Algorithmic Rationalities: Decision-Making, Power and Control In Contemporary Organizations
organized by Marco Joestingmeier and Uli Meyer

·         Organizations Shaping and Being Shaped By Migration
organized by Yingjian Liang

·         Organizing Creativity with AI: Creative Industries, Organizational Fields, and the Reconfiguration of Expertise
organized by Angela Graf, Sabine Pfeiffer and Marco Blank

·         Organizing Education
organized by Kathia Serrano-Velarde and Rebecca Ye

·         Organizing Political Displacement: Expertise, Bureaucracy and the Neutralization of Conflict
organized by Amel Boubekeur

·         Organizing Waste for Livable Lives
organized by Nadine Arnold, Héloïse Berkowitz, Simone Di Cecco, Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain and Devi Vijay

·         Organizing from the South: Coloniality, Emergences and Alternatives In Latin America
organized by Alba González Vega, Lorena Litai Ramos and Ayde Cadena López

·         Policy Change In Overorganized Societies
organized by Patrick Castel and Henri Bergeron

·         Professions and Organisations Facing Turbulent Times: The Role of Technology
organized by Lia Tirabeni and Lara Maestripieri

·         Racial Inequality In Organisations: The Role of Attitudes, Emotions and Organisational Culture
organized by Carolin Schütze

·         Senior Employment In Organizations
organized by Christophe Baret, Tomohiko Moriyama and Kihong Kim

·         Systems, Decisions, and Organization: From Cybernetic Legacies to Contemporary Challenges
organized by Ayumi Higuchi and Michael Grothe-Hammer

·         The AI-Magicalized Double Movement: Transforming Social Institutions
organized by Jelica Stefanovic Stambuk and Nikola Lazic

·         The Contested Worth of Academic Knowledge
organized by Kate Williams and Liz Dean

·         The Futures of Doing Research In the Social Sciences In the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): What Can We Do? What Should We Do?

organized by Inga Gaizauskaite, Michael Grothe-Hammer, Dirk Michel-Schertges and Markus S. Schulz

·         The Organization of Ignorance
organized by Robert Van Krieken

·         The Social Regulations of Shared Objects and Spaces In Organizations
organized by Nathalie Saadia Richebé and Lea Holm-Jensen

Abstracts must be submitted through the ISA Conference System to one specific theme/session. Please consult the individual theme page for the full description and accepted language(s).

We very much encourage you to submit your work and to share the Call for Abstracts with colleagues who may be interested.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We hope to see many of you in Gwangju!

Best wishes,
Michael Grothe-Hammer
Robert van Krieken
Program Coordinators, RC17 Sociology of Organizations

2026 ASA OOW SECTION AWARDS

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Congratulations to the 2026 award recipients for their achievements!

David Su won the James Thompson Graduate Paper Award for his paper “Gaming the Algorithm: Algorithmic Literacy, Tactical Innovation, and Collective Resistance in China’s Platform Economy.”

Dr. Benjamin Shestakofsky won the 2026 Max Weber Book Award for his book, Behind the Start-Up: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (University of California Press, 2024).

Christopher I. Rider (not pictured), James B. Wade (center), Anand Swaminathan (right), and Andreas Schwab (left) won the W. Richard Scott Article Award for their paper, “Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches,” published in American Journal of Sociology.

Dr. Phyllis Moen received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award for 2026.

ASA Thematic Session: How Can Sociology Disrupt the Status Quo in U.S. Health Policy?

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OOW members attending the 2026 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting may be interested in the following thematic session:

Session 20834: How Can Sociology Disrupt the Status Quo in U.S. Health Policy?

Saturday, August 8, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Sheraton, Second Floor, Metropolitan Ballroom East

Description: Under the current presidential administration, we have seen significant threats to healthcare access, public health, and health promoting social policies in the U.S. Despite our discipline’s theoretical frameworks and methodological tools, sociologists have often ceded health policy leadership opportunities to adjacent fields. This session asks: How can sociologists more meaningfully impact health policy? What core sociological insights can animate research agendas to disrupt the status quo in health policy? How can we position existing scholarship and produce new knowledge to meet this political moment? This panel will feature scholars working across multiple areas to invite a conversation on how our discipline can catalyze change in health policy.

Presider: Emily Parker, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Moderator: Sorcha Brophy, Columbia University

Panelists:

  • Tiffany Joseph, Northeastern University
  • Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University
  • Josh Pacewicz, Brown University
  • Megan Reynolds, University of Utah

Call for Proposals: Comparative Sociology of Public Administration Book Volume Conference

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Organizers Erin Metz McDonnell (University of Notre Dame) and Josh Pacewicz (Brown University) invite chapter proposals for an edited volume on the Comparative Sociology of Public Administration.

The project will bring together scholars through two in-person mini-conferences:

  • Late Fall 2026: University of Notre Dame
  • Late Spring 2027: Brown University

Across the globe, states are under pressure to expand social protection, confront democratic backsliding, and adapt to rapid technological change—all while maintaining legitimacy and inclusion in service delivery. Their ability to deliver varies, and politicians in many states have challenged aspects of public administration whose legitimacy mainstream political parties once took as a matter of course. For these reasons, accounts of everything from contemporary welfare regimes to political economies are incomplete without consideration of public bureaucracies. Yet scholarship on public administration remains fragmented along disciplinary, regional, and methodological lines—with particular bifurcation between scholarship on the United States, which tends to employ quantitative and formal models, and scholarship on public administration in other nations, which often employs historical and qualitative techniques to analyze how bureaucracies work in practice. Bringing together a comparative group of scholars is essential to advance a new generation of theory on how states actually work, generating insights across both geographic and methodological differences.

We aim to convene scholars across global contexts to produce an edited volume on the Comparative Sociology of Public Administration via a series of two mini-conferences. We welcome proposals on any aspect of everyday governance, with particular interest in proposed chapters on the following themes: making rights real, state (il)legibility projects, AI and technology in governance, administrative professionals and careers, democratic backsliding and bureaucratic resistance, administrative burdens and improving service delivery, coproduction of public services, and inequalities in public service provision.

Confirmed volume contributors include leading scholars of public administration (Elisabeth Clemens, Pamela Herd, Armando Lara-Millan, Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Michael Woolcock, and Nicholas Wilson), and we are soliciting additional chapter proposals via an open call. Participants will meet in person for two working groups, with travel costs borne by host institutions—Notre Dame’s Kellogg Center in Fall 2026 and Brown University’s Sociology Department in Spring 2027.

If you are interested in applying and would like to meet with us around ASA or over Zoom to chat, please contact us by email.

Organizers:

Email proposals to sociologypublicadmin@gmail.com

Please include in your proposal:

  • Title of Proposed Chapter
  • Name, affiliation, and contact information of author(s)
  • 500-word extended abstract

Deadline for Proposals: Monday, August 17, 2026

Anticipated Timeline:

  • September 1, 2026: Acceptances Announced
  • Early December 2026: Rough Drafts for Notre Dame Conference
  • Early June 2027: Revised Drafts for Brown Conference

New Publication: “The Moralization of Gender (In)Equality: Contested Hybrid Repertoires Among Men in High-Tech Organizations” by Dr. Tair Karazi-Presler

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Karazi-Presler, Tair. 2026. “The Moralization of Gender (In)Equality: Contested Hybrid Repertoires Among Men in High-Tech Organizations.” Men and Masculinities. doi:10.1177/1097184X261465812 

Abstract: This article examines how men negotiate the moral meanings of gender (in)equality in high-tech organizations that publicly promote gender equality while reproducing persistent inequality regimes. Based on 35 in-depth interviews, the analysis conceptualizes their accounts as contested hybrid moral repertoires: morally charged and contested ways of making sense of gender (in)equality in ostensibly egalitarian organizations. Three intertwined dynamics emerged. First, men challenge gender hierarchy by supporting gender equality and recognizing women’s exclusion. Second, they reinforce hierarchy through tensions between political correctness and authenticity, framing restraint as a burden and spontaneity as sincerity. Third, they preserve privilege through discourses of unfairness, reverse discrimination, and lost power. Drawing on the cultural sociology of morality, the article extends scholarship on hybrid masculinities by foregrounding moral sense-making and contributes to the sociology of gender and organizations by showing how moral evaluations and claims to legitimacy become mechanisms through which gender inequality is reproduced.