Caste and employment: recruitment, participation of workers, and involvement in the labour force; and its economic and social outcomes
Caste and occupations: choice, dirty work, and stigma
Caste, dignity, and occupational health and safety
Caste, wage differential, and exploitation of labour
Caste and the informal economy
Discrimination and identity in the labour market
Caste and global production
Global agri-business, peasantry, and caste
Caste in global value chains
Workers’ rights, human rights, and caste: Governance and compliance codes around caste
Accounting, banking, and finance industries, and caste
Caste, globalization, and outsourcing
Caste, migration, and diaspora
Caste, business, and management
Discrimination and exclusion in the workplace
Analysis of corporate governance, board practices, and regulation
Global CEOs, caste, and identity
Implications of caste diversity in businesses
Caste, entrepreneurship, and technology
Dalit-Bahujan entrepreneurship
Access to venture capital and investments
Caste, homophily, and entrepreneurial networks
Caste and technology: access and affordance
Caste and innovation
Role of businesses in tackling casteism
Terminology and representation of caste
Role and regulation of the private sector, including handling of grievances, informal and formal support infrastructure and mechanisms
The role of leadership in tackling caste-based inequalities
Role of reservations and other forms of affirmative action
Collaboration with state and other public sector organisations
Caste, CSR, and philanthropy
Caste and social entrepreneurship
How to create a caste diverse workforce
Caste and privilege
Role of caste and caste-based networks in business activities (mercantile, moneylending castes, philanthropy, etc.)
Privileges of caste for dominant caste managers and business leaders, and its social impact
Caste and professions (banking, civil service, accounting and taxation, law etc.)
Caste and theory
Theorizing caste in business and society: combine and develop existing perspectives, develop new theories
Integrating and synthesizing different disciplinary perspectives of caste, drawing from fields beyond management
Caste as a lens to rethink/revise theories relevant to business and society, as a field: Potential for generalizing caste lens beyond the caste system as a South Asian phenomenon.
Theorizing the distinctive features of caste as they relate to organizations and societies
Theorizing organizations and organizing from a caste lens
