Stigmas pervade organizational life. A stigma is a discrediting social evaluation that
devalues an individual or group. We review research on stigmatized work and stigmatized …

Stigma has become an increasingly significant challenge for society. Recognition of this
problem is indicated by the growing attention paid to it within the management literature …

Entrepreneurs work not only in socially accepted and valued domains but also in highly
contested, stigmatized industries. Despite the extreme constraints of working in stigmatized …

Recent dirty work research has begun to explore intersectionality, attending to how meaning
is made at the intersection of multiple sources of taint. This research has shown that …

The paper addresses an understudied but highly relevant group of people within corporate
organizations and society in general—the marginalized—as well as their narration, and …

Dirty work research has long analytically prioritized focusing on the people who do dirty
work, largely sidestep** who the clients of dirty work are and what contribution they can …

As organizational scholars have become critically attuned to human flourishing in the
workplace, interest in workplace dignity has grown rapidly. Yet, a valid scale to measure …

Shame has been identified as a debilitating emotion that impedes entrepreneurial action.
Yet, there are many examples of people who experience shame and go on to create …

There is now a substantial body of literature on the co** strategies used by workers
employed in stigmatized dirty work. However, there is insufficient knowledge about what …

Few concepts are more poignant than dignity at this point in history due to the confluence of
several profound phenomena that detract from dignity—the pandemic, racial inequality, and …