We propose that racial disparity in organizational leadership representation will persist until valuative bias favoring white men ceases to influence advancement from the lower-level positions where most careers begin. We consider how racial disparity results from the organizational matching of...

Taking a social constructivist perspective, this paper presents a socio-cognitive framework for understanding the dynamics of mature competitive markets. Its fundamental premise is that mature competitive markets are as dynamic as emerging ones because the enactment-sensemaking cycles in which...

This paper explores the origins and evolution of product markets from a socio-cognitive perspective. Product markets are defined as socially-constructed knowledge structures (i.e., product conceptual systems) that are shared among produces and consumers--sharing that allows consumers and...