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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Diversity in organizations
Interpretive methods
Social inequality
Biography
Biographie
Ajnesh Prasad is Professor in the Department of Organization Studies and Ethics. His research interests broadly span the areas of social inequality, diversity in organizations, and interpretive methods.
Ajnesh has published two books and over 80 articles in journals such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies, and Work, Employment & Society. In 2021, his article on social inequality in the Global South (co-authored with G. Zulfiqar) won the Best Article of the Year Award from Academy of Management Learning & Education and, in 2014, his article on border crossings was shortlisted for the Article of the Year award from Human Relations.
Ajnesh currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief at Management Learning and Associate Editor at Human Relations and Organization. He is also the inaugural editor of the Transcending Boundaries section at Gender, Work & Organization, and was previously the Research Integrity Editor at Journal of Business Ethics. He sits on the editorial boards of several other journals, including British Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. He has co-edited several journal special issues, including at Academy of Management Learning & Education, Business & Society, Gender, Work & Organization, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, and Marketing Theory.
Ajnesh's research has been covered in numerous media outlets, including CNN, Canadian HR Reporter, The Globe & Mail, Harvard Business Review, The National Post, and The Washington Post. His research has been cited in reports published by the European Commission, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization.
Ajnesh earned his PhD in organization studies from York University's Schulich School of Business. A former Canada Research Chair, in 2025 he was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
Diplomas
PhD in Organization Studies
Schulich School of Business, Toronto
(2012)
MA in Political Studies
Queen's University, Kingston
(2006)
BA (Hons) in Political Science
Université Simon Fraser, Burnaby
(2004)
Experiences
Professor
Audencia, Nantes
Since 2025
Research Professor & GIEE Chair
EGADE Business School, Mexico City
2024 - 2025
Professor & Canada Research Chair
Royal Roads University, Victoria
2020 - 2023
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair
Royal Roads University, Victoria
2016 - 2020
Research Professor
EGADE Business School, Mexico City
2014 - 2016
Senior Lecturer
UNSW Sydney, Sydney
2013 - 2014
Lecturer
UNSW Sydney, Sydney
2010 - 2013
Graduate Research Fellow (in residence)
Yale University, New Haven
2009 - 2010
Yitzhak Rabin Scholar for the Advancement of Peace & Tolerance (in residence)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
2008 - 2009
Publications
Published
ZULFIQAR G., BASHIR M., PRASAD A., (2025). Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan.
Organization Studies, 46 (8), 1177-1200 [ABS: 4|FT50]
HASSAN S. E., PRASAD A., (2025). Terra economicus: Rhetorical strategies of legitimation in land grabbing.
Academy of Management Perspectives, 39 (1), 73-93 [ABS: 4]
SLIWA M., DECKER S., BARROS A., OMEIHE K., PRASAD A., (2025). Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective.
Management Learning, 56 (2), 153-159 [ABS: 3]
SLIWA M., PRASAD A., (2025). Crafting Sustainable Careers as Minority Academics.
British Journal of Management, 36 (4), 1416-1424. [ABS: 4]
IZAK M., BARROS A., PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2025). Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?.
Management Learning, 56 (3), 407-415 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., LI E., (2025). Misrepresenting Methodology: A Critique of Epistemological Engineering in Social Science Research.
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 61 (1), 156-176 [ABS: 2]
RAUF A., APPAU S., PRASAD A., (2025). Old gods, new world: Theoretical advances in the marketization and the consumption of religion.
Marketing Theory, 25 (1), 3-13 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., (2025). Transcending Boundaries: Reimagining the Possibilities of Scholarship.
Gender, Work and Organization, 32 (5), 1677-1680 [ABS: 3]
PEK S., SEGARRA P., RODRIGUEZ E., PRASAD A., (2025). Misclassification, Tipping and the Responsibilisation of Work in the Global South.
Work, Employment and Society, 39 (5), 1280-1289 [ABS: 4]
PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2025). Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation.
Management Learning, 56 (4), 681-683
PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2025). Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning’s 55 years of publication.
Management Learning, 55 (1), 147-149 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2025). A thanks and a farewell.
Management Learning, 56 (5), 837-841
ABDELLATIF A., PRASAD A., (2024). A. How does legal status inform immigrant agency during encounters of workplace incivility?.
Journal of Business Ethics, 194 (4), 775-787 [ABS: 3|FT50]
REED C., SLIWA M., PRASAD A., (2024). Provocations: Who, what, why, where and how?.
Management Learning, 55 (5), 677-681 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2024). The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics.
Management Learning, 55 (4), 479-482 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., (2024). Racial capitalism and COVID-19.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11 (554), 1-6
GEORGE G., ERTUG G., BAPUJI H., DOH J., MAIR J., PRASAD A., (2024). COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research.
Business and Society, 63 (4), 715-744 [ABS: 3]
SEGARRA P., PRASAD A., (2024). Undocumented immigrants at work: Invisibility, hypervisibility, and the making of the modern slave.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11 (45), 1-16
BARROS A., BRISTOW A., CONTU A., WANDERLEY S., PRASAD A., (2024). Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire.
Management Learning, 55 (1), 3-16 [ABS: 3]
MANDALAKI E., PRASAD A., (2024). Racialized experiences as in-betweenness in academia.
Organization, 31 (1), 199-212 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2024). Critiquing the Backlash Against Wokeness: In Defense of DEI Scholarship and Practice.
Academy of Management Perspectives, 38 (2), 245-259 [ABS: 4]
RAUF A., PRASAD A., (2023). Managing sacred identities: How religious anti-consumption conflicts with culture.
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences - Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 40 (2), 140-154 [ABS: 2]
PRASAD A., (2023). What’s up with our obsession with the theoretical contribution: A means to an end or an end in and of itself?.
Organization, 30 (6), 1259-1265 [ABS: 3]
KUMAR R., PRASAD A., (2023). The neoliberalization of Indian business schools: how accreditation-linked institutional pressures shape academic subjectivities.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an International Journal, 42 (7), 889-902 [ABS: 2]
BARROS A., PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2023). Generative artificial intelligence and academia: Implication for research, teaching and service.
Management Learning, 54 (5), 597-604 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., SHADNAM M., (2023). Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography.
Organization Studies, 44 (5), 831-854 [ABS: 4|FT50]
PRASAD A., SEGARRA P., (2023). Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices.
Business and Society, 62 (8), 1543-1548 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., (2023). What is the real perversity of racism?.
Gender, Work and Organization, 30 (5), 1785-1794 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., (2023). The model minority and the limits of workplace inclusion.
Academy of Management Review, 48 (2), 336-356 [ABS: 4*|FT50]
LI E., CHOW M., LIU W. S., LAM M. M.-L., PRASAD A., (2023). Queering consumption: The discursive construction of sexual identity among fashion gay consumers in Hong Kong.
Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, 10 (3), 167-192
ZULFIQAR G., PRASAD A., (2022). How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work.
Human Relations, 75 (11), 2160-2186 [ABS: 4|FT50]
PRASAD A., SLIWA M., (2022). Towards an aspirational future: Cultivating ontological empathy within the ethos of Management Learning.
Management Learning, 53 (2), 139-145 [ABS: 3]
SLIWA M., PRASAD A., (2022). Critical Management Studies and Moving Towards Hope: A Dialogue.
Management International, 26 (5), 157-162
SLIWA M., PRASAD A., (2022). On forgiveness and letting go.
Management Learning, 53 (5), 753-756 [ABS: 3]
MANDALAKI E., VAN AMSTERDAM N., PRASAD A., FOTAKI M., (2022). Caring about the unequal effects of the pandemic: What feminist theory, art, and activism can teach us.
Gender, Work and Organization, 29 (4), 1224-1235 [ABS: 3]
SHADNAM M., BYKOV A., PRASAD A., (2021). Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality.
Journal of Business Ethics, 170 (2), 201-211 [ABS: 3|FT50]
PRASAD A., ZULFIQAR G., (2021). Resistance and praxis in the making of feminist solidarity: A conversation with Cynthia Enloe.
Gender, Work and Organization, 28 (2), 722-734 [ABS: 3]
ZULFIQAR G., PRASAD A., (2021). Challenging social inequality in the Global South: Class, privilege, and consciousness-raising through critical management education.
Academy of Management Learning and Education, 20 (2), 157-181 [ABS: 4*]
PRASAD A., CENTENO A., RHODES C., NISAR M., TAYLOR S., TIENARI J., ALAKAVUKLAR O., (2021). What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism?.
Gender, Work and Organization, 28 (4), 1579-1599 [ABS: 3]
PRASAD A., (2020). The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how COVID-19 is exploited by populist leaders.
Leadership, 16 (3), 294-302 [ABS: 2]
WASDANI K. P., PRASAD A., (2020). The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: The case of an Indian slum in the times of COVID-19.
Local Environment, 25 (5), 414-418
SEGARRA P., PRASAD A., (2020). Colonization, migration, and right-wing extremism: The constitution of embodied life of a dispossessed undocumented immigrant woman.
Organization, 27 (1), 174-187 [ABS: 3]
RAUF A., PRASAD A., (2020). Temporal spaces of egalitarianism: The ethical negation of economic inequality in an ephemeral religious organization.
Journal of Business Ethics, 162 (3), 699-718 [ABS: 3|FT50]
PRASAD A., (2019). Denying anthropogenic climate change: Or, how our rejection of objective reality gave intellectual legitimacy to fake news.
Sociological Forum, 34 (S1), 1217-1234
FERNANDO D., PRASAD A., (2019). . Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia.
Human Relations, 72 (10), 1565-1594 [ABS: 4|FT40]
RAUF A., PRASAD A., (2019). How does religion discipline the consumer subject? Negotiating the paradoxical tension between consumer desire and the social order.
Journal of Marketing Management, 35 (5-6), 491-513 [ABS: 2]
PRASAD A., (2019). Visualizing community pride: Engaging community through photo- and video-voice methods.
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 14 (4), 377-392 [ABS: 1]
THEXTON T., PRASAD A., MILLS A. J., (2019). Learning empathy through literature.
Culture and Organization, 25 (2), 83-90 [ABS: 2]
ALVI F. H., PRASAD A., SEGARRA P., (2019). The political embeddedness of entrepreneurship in extreme contexts: The case of the West Bank.
Journal of Business Ethics, 157 (1), 279-292 [ABS: 3|FT50]
PRASAD A., SEGARRA P., VILLANUEVA C., (2019). Academic life under institutional pressures for AACSB accreditation: Insights from faculty members in Mexican business schools.
Studies in Higher Education, 44 (9), 1605-1618 {ABS: 3}
PRASAD A., (2018). When is economic inequality justified?.
Business Horizons, 61 (6), 855-862 [ABS: 2]
RAUF A. A., PRASAD A., RAZZAQUE M. A., (2018). Consumption within a soft total institution: Discursive inculcation in the Tablighi Jamaat.
International Journal of Consumer Studies, 42 (6), 854-864 [ABS: 2]
LI E. P. H., PRASAD A., (2018). From wall 1.0 to wall 2.0: Graffiti, social media, and ideological acts of resistance and recognition among Palestinian refugees.
American Behavioral Scientist, 62 (4), 493-511 [ABS: 1]
SEGARRA P., PRASAD A., (2018). How does corporeality inform theorizing? Revisiting Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil.
Human Studies, 41 (4), 545-563
PRASAD A., QURESHI T., (2017). Race and racism in an elite postcolonial context: Reflections from investment banking.
Work, Employment and Society, 31 (2), 352-362 [ABS: 4]
RAUF A. A., PRASAD A., (2017). Ritualistic meal consumption and the temporal reduction of divisions due to economic disparity.
Advances in Consumer Research, 45, 833-834 [ABS: 2]
ANNISETTE M., PRASAD A., (2017). Critical accounting research in hyper-racial times.
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 43, 5-19 [ABS: 3]
Forthcoming
BARROS A., PRASAD A., (2026). CEO Activism as Discursive Agentic Acts.
Group and Organization Management, [ABS: 3]
KLASMEIER K., SCHYNS B., PRASAD A., SLIWA M., BRAUN S., (2026). Let’s talk about exclusion: A multi-level model of destructive leadership and psychological functioning of employees with common mental disorders.
Group and Organization Management, [ABS: 3]
VERSHININA N., HAYA AL-DAJANI H., BOSCH A., KUSHAL S., PRASAD A., SHYMKO Y., SINDANI T., (2026). From Theorising Othering to Othering Theorising: Reflections from the GWO 2025 Keynote Panel.
Gender, Work and Organization
BEIGI M., KONING J., PRASAD A., ROFCANIN Y., (2026). Taking stock and setting directions on timely organizational phenomena: Artificial intelligence, Indigeneity, precarious work and multi-level theorizing.
Human Relations, [ABS: 4|FT50]
PRASAD A., (2019). Autoethnography and Organization Research: Reflections from Fieldwork in Palestine.
Palgrave
PRASAD A., (2016). Contesting institutional hegemony in today’s business schools: Doctoral students speak out.
Emerald Group Publishing
PRASAD, A., ZULFIQAR, G. (2025). Consciousness-raising through critical management education. In C. Rigg & K. Trehan (Ed.), Research handbook of critical management education (pp. 150-162). Edward Elgar.
PRASAD, A. (2024). Model minority. In P. M. Bal (Ed.), Elgar encyclopedia of organizational psychology (pp. 397-398). Edward Elgar.
PRASAD, A. (2023). The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis: Explaining how COVID-19 is exploited by populist leaders. In D. Knights, H. Liu, O. Smolovic-Jones, & S. E. Wilson (Eds.), The Routledge critical companion to leadership studies (pp. 336-343). New York: Routledge.
PRASAD, A., ZULFIQAR, G. (2023). The epistemology of the toilet: Doing class work in Pakistan. In V. Doshi (Ed.), Postcolonial feminism in management and organization studies: Critical perspectives from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (pp. 91-105). New York: Routledge.
PRASAD, A., SEGARRA, P., VILLANUEVA, C. (2020). Situating knowledges through feminist objectivity in organization studies: Donna Haraway and the partial perspective. In R. McMurray & A. Pullen (Ed.), Rethinking culture, organization and management (pp. 73-87). New York: Routledge.
PRASAD, A. (2016). The fact of Otherness: Liberating the subaltern consciousness in management education. In C. Steyaert, T. Beyes, & M. Parker (Eds.), Routledge companion to reinventing management education (pp. 454-467). New York: Routledge.
PRASAD, A. (2016). Conclusion. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Contesting institutional hegemony in today’s business schools: Doctoral students speak out (pp. 183-204). Bingley: Emerald.
PRASAD, A. (2016). Introduction. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Contesting institutional hegemony in today’s business schools: Doctoral students speak out (pp. xi-xvi). Bingley: Emerald.
PRASAD, A. (2016). Playing the game and trying not to lose myself: A doctoral student’s perspective on the institutional pressures for research output. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Contesting institutional hegemony in today’s business schools: Doctoral students speak out (pp. 69-89). Bingley: Emerald.
PRASAD, A. (2015). A rebel without a cause? (Re)claiming the question of the political in critical management studies. In A. Prasad, P. Prasad, A. J. Mills, & J-H. Mills (Eds.), The Routledge companion to critical management studies (pp. 80-90). New York: Routledge.
PRASAD, A. (2015). Beyond positivism: Towards paradigm pluralism in cross cultural management research. In N. Holden, S. Michailova, & S. Tietze (Eds.), Routledge companion to cross-cultural management (pp. 198-207). New York: Routledge.
PRASAD, A., FARZADNIA, S. (2013). Clean Air Act. In L. M. Salinger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of white-collar and corporate crime (pp. 175-177). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
PRASAD, A. (2012). Reconsidering the socio-scientific enterprise of sexual difference: The case of Kimberly Nixon. In D. Naugler (Ed.), Canadian perspectives in sexuality studies: Identities, experiences, and the contexts of change (pp. 494-499). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
PRASAD, A. (2010). Towards a system of global ethics international business. In P. Maiti (Ed.), Corporate social responsibility: Critique, policies and strategies (pp. 7-18). Jodhpur: Sharda Publishing House.
PRASAD, A. (2010). Configurative-ideographic case study. In A. J. Mills, G. Durepos, & E. Wiebe (Eds.), SAGE encyclopedia of case study research (pp. 208-210). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
PRASAD, A. (2009). Identity without corporeality: On the gendered psychology of re-presented socio-sexual community. In E. Park, A. Rutherford, P. Stenner, & T. Teo (Eds.), Varieties of theoretical psychology (pp. 262-272). Toronto: Captus Press.
Broadcast
SLIWA M., PRASAD A., (2025). Cutting DEI from business school accreditation is not just semantics.
Times Higher Education (THE)
PRASAD A., (2022). Zelensky superstar: le président ukrainien brille d’abord et avant tout par ses gestes courageux.
The Conversation
PRASAD A., (2022). Volodymyr Zelensky’s appeal lies in his service to Ukrainians above all else.
The Conversation
PRASAD A., NYGAARD-PETERSEN K., (2020). An opt-out organ donor system could address Canada’s shortage of organs for transplant.
The Conversation
FERNANDO D., PRASAD A., (2018). How Managers, Coworkers, and HR Pressure Women to Stay Silent About Harassment.
Harvard Business Review (digital version)
SEGARRA P., PRASAD A., (2016). La corruption, facteur aggravant de la pollution de l’air à Mexico.
The Conversation
SEGARRA P., PRASAD A., (2016). How corruption is hurting Mexico City’s efforts to tackle air pollution.
The Conversation
Awards and honors
Elected as Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, 2024
Best Critical Paper Award (CMS division), 2022
Best Article of the Year Award (among all articles published in 2021), 2022
Canada Research Chair in Critical Management Studies (CAD 208,500), 2021
Insight Development Grant COVID Supplement (CAD 9,269), 2020
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel II (MXN 1,300,000), 2020
Canada Research Chair Research Stipend (CAD 70,000), 2018
Insight Development Grant (CAD 58,389), 2018
Canada Research Chair in Innovative Organizational Practice (CAD 500,000), 2016
Newton Advanced Fellowship (GBP 73,290), 2016
Best Paper Award (‘Business History’ division), 2016
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel II (MXN 900,000], 2016
Best Paper Award (‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ division), 2013
Most Developmental Reviewer Award (‘Critical Management Studies’ division – 1 award given out of 129 reviewers), 2012
John Wiley & Sons Outstanding Student Reviewer Award (‘Management & Organization Cognition’ division), 2009
Best Student Paper Award (‘Critical Management Studies’ division), 2008
Doctoral supervision
(2024) J. MANG : Why does industrial hegemony impact environmental injustice and sustainability: The case of Chemical Valley.
(2022) A. CENTENO : Modeling gender: Three essays on masculinity, sexuality, and performing display work.
(2018) P. SEGARRA : Neither free nor a slave: Subjectivity, organization, and the making of exile.
(2016) C. VILLANUEVA : Corporate social responsibility in Mexico City’s informal economy.
(2016) A. RAUF : From the bazaar to the masjid: Traditionalizing consumers within the currents of modernity.