Professions and inequality: challenges, controversies, and opportunities

Abstract On the basis of EGOS 2021 sub-plenary on ‘Professions and Inequality: Challenges, Controversies, Opportunities’, presenters panellists wrote four short essays relationship between inequality as a grand challenge professional occupations organizations, their structures, practices, strategies. Individually, these take an inquisitorial stance extant understandings (1) how professions may exacerbate existing inequalities (2) can be part solution help tackle challenge. Taken together, discussion forum aims at advancing scholarly debates by showing professions’ scholarship critically interrogate broad, multifaceted concept, whilst providing fruitful directions for research inequality, potential solutions, role responsibilities organization management scholars.