Cultivating Foreignness: How Organizations Maintain and Leverage Minority Identities

Scholars increasingly recognize that organizational fields contain minority identities , linked to alternative logics. Extant work has been largely silent on how such minority identities are maintained, and what their implications are for organizational agency. I contribute to filling this gap by examining how organizations cultivate minority identities, and how such identities both enable and constrain agency. Employing the foreignness of...