Introductory note

Abstract

The topic of this special issue is an important and timely one, as all the articles explain. It is also a particularly challenging one for scholars: just how we turn the injunction to connect organizations to inequality into a meaningful research programme is harder than might seem. I am thus particularly grateful to the special issue editors for defining an agenda and producing a set of articles that addresses it. Given that the agenda is challenging, the format of the special issue is slightly unusual. We have the usual five articles on specific topics. Framing them are essays by each of the special issue editors that explain and address different aspects of the wider scholarly challenges of the agenda. Hari Bapuji synthesizes a mass of research that explores the links running from inequality to organizations; he also indicates the contributions of each of the articles. Suhaib Riaz looks at how organizations themselves generate inequality and the intersections between dimensions of inequality and the methodological challenges involved. Each offers a framework with different but potentially complementary ways of thinking about inequality and organizations. In this very short note I offer some very brief further reflections on the connections between agenda and articles.