Inclusive Economy Day

Management scholars and practitioners are invited to join us for our annual event for a series of discussions exploring the latest research at the intersection of management, social issues, inequalities and impact.

How can business help build a more inclusive society? 

Academics present original research on social and societal issues related to access to work and essential good and services, but also on social ties and social connectivity and social ties, enriched by diverse practitioners’ perspectives.

We usually break out in small group discussions to explore how experimental research could help organizations address concrete social challenges. 

Have a look to our dedicated page to deep dive to the topics thanks to the recording of our panel sessions and the reading of the presented research papers.

Refugees and Global Migration

The session featured presentations by Anselm Hager, SM Musa and Sandra Portocarrero, as well as Raphaëlle Thirion (offering insights as a practitioner).

Anselm, Musa and Sandra’s research dealt with issues of dignity, economic mobility and integration. Research took place within challenging settings of humanitarian crisis which included: forced migration, life in refugee camps, and constant economic and social isolation. The works presented findings about how people operating in such desperate conditions are, however, able to adapt to the constraints of their environment, and to develop unique solutions.

Raphaëlle Thirion also offered practitioner insights during the research session. Raphaëlle’s work involves the task of reintegrating legal migrants into the French economy. So Raphaëlle outlined the myriad of social and economic issues that her organization (Humando) helps these migrants overcome.

=> Please find here the full summary of the panel discussion

• Presentation by Anselm Hager, Humbolft University: Impact of Forced Migration on In-Group and Out-Group Social Capital
• Presentation by SM Musa, Rotterdam School of Management: Institutional Totalization: Securitization, Resource Mobilization, and Resistance in a Refugee Camp
• Presentation by Sandra Portocarrero, Columbia Business School: Entrepreneurial Activity as a Way to Override a Stigmatized Immigration Status

Access to Health

• Presentation by Leandro Pongeluppe: Privacy at what cost? Heterogeneous Effects of Electronic Medical Records and the Importance of Body-Mass Index for the Treatment of HIV Patients
• Presentation by Carlos Inoue, University of Ilinois Urbana-Champaign: Peer Influence in the Workplace: The Moderating Role of Organizational Task Structure

Social Connectivity

=> Please find here the full summary of the panel discussions.

• Presented by Dan Wang, Columbia Business School: The Impact of High Skilled Immigration on Regional Entrepreneurship
• Presentation by Naja Pape, INSEAD: One Size Doesn't Fit All
• Presentation by Yann Algan, HEC Paris: The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and non-Economic Outcomes