Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) in management academies: state of the art and future challenges

Recent organizational literature and business practice have underscored the relevance of promoting the integration of diversity within groups and organizations, as well as of adopting an “inclusionary approach” to embrace both observable and unobservable dimensions of heterogeneity. It has been suggested that this approach is critical to unleash the potential benefits of a varied organizational environment, such as greater creativity, flexible problem solving, originality, but also participation, talent promotion and, ultimately, ethics and humanity (see Cox and Blake, 1991; Milliken and Martins, 1996; Pless and Maak, 2004). Similar to many other professional communities, the academic world…