Coming this May
Technology, Management & Design for Social Justice: Critical Perspectives on Innovation, Equity, and Power
Technological and scientific innovation does not simply emerge; it is designed. From organizational systems and data infrastructures to platforms, policies, and everyday tools, design choices shape how power operates, whose knowledge counts, and who benefits from innovation. Technology, Management, and Design for Social Justice brings together global scholars and practitioners to critically examine how design, management, and technological systems reproduce inequality, and how they can be intentionally reimagined to advance equity, dignity, and planetary wellbeing.
Published work
Managing for Social Justice: Harnessing Management Theory & Practice for Collective Good
Edited by: Latha Poonamallee, Simy Joy, Anita Howard and Joanne Scillitoe
The goal of the book is to curate and share knowledge on cutting edge, critical, and generative approaches to management scholarship, teaching, and practice that is focused on social justice, inclusion, equity, and environmental sustainability and go beyond the business school, the for-profit corporation, profit maximization, and managerialist agendas.
Socio-Tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good
Edited by: Latha Poonamallee, Simy Joy, and Joanne Scillitoe
This book defines socio-technological innovation and lays out different aspects of technology innovation and adoption literature as applied to socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Unlike conventional technological innovation, socio-tech innovation either develops a product specifically for underserved markets and adopts a model in which the market is not an afterthought but the rai-son d’etre.
Expansive Leadership
Written by: Latha Poonamallee
The present moment demands new ways of being, doing, and relating with the world. To meet this moment, we need fresh, collective, inclusive, and interdependent models of leadership and new approaches to leadership development. This book goes beyond the “McMindfulness” often seen in mindful leadership books, to offer a multi-faceted approach to develop a more interconnected sense of self and interdependence-centric mindsets needed for expansive leadership, through mindfulness practice. Through this practice, leaders can cultivate the ability to make deliberate choices using slow thinking and overcome any unconscious and implicit biases that are the result of fast-thinking processes.
Upcoming Work
Technology and Social Justice: Managerial Perspectives on Innovation, Equity, and Power (In contract with Springer)
Edited by: Latha Poonamallee, Simy Joy, Anita Howard, Joanne Scillitoe & Akhil, S,G.
It is past abstract submission deadline and folks are working on book chapters.
This book addresses the critical intersection of technology, management and social justice, presenting insights and strategies to guide organizations in fostering ethical innovation and equitable outcomes. Technologies that perpetuate bias, deepen inequality, or limit access can exacerbate social injustices, while ethical management of technology can serve as a powerful tool for inclusive growth and empowerment. The proposed edited volume focuses on the managerial perspective, exploring how leaders and organizations can ethically integrate technology to address systemic inequities. Through an interdisciplinary lens and practical frameworks, the book balances scholarly rigor with actionable insights for practitioners.
Keywords: social justice, technology innovation, digital futures, future of work, data justice, design and justice, socio-tech innovation, health justice, environmental justice, social
transformation, radical change
Research Handbook on Socio-Tech Innovation (Edward Elgar Publishing)
Edited by: Joanne Scillitoe, Latha Poonamallee, Simy Joy, Ana Cristina Siqueira & Sara Kimakwa
In this research handbook, we add to this field of socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship (Scillitoe, Poonamallee & Joy, 2016, 2018). Research on socio-tech ventures is a particularly important research topic given an increasing number of technology ventures founded today globally have a social orientation and span both the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. The structure of these organizations can range from for-profit, non-profit, hybrid, co-ops, public to social movement organizations as long as they are both explicitly social and explicitly technological. We call these ventures socio-tech ventures. For example, organizations may develop or employ technologies such as in the field of decentralized finance for promoting entrepreneurship and socioeconomic development in underserved communities (Siqueira, Honig, Mariano, & Moraes, 2020). Additional examples include entrepreneurially ingenious ventures in fields such as renewable energy and recyclable supply chain equipment focused on sustainable solutions (Siqueira & Honig, 2019). Our
proposed linkage of social entrepreneurship with technology entrepreneurship offers to provide new insights to create scalable and economically impactful ventures that generate social value. However, early research suggests that a direct translation of technology entrepreneurship nor social entrepreneurship knowledge and models to socio-tech ventures is not clear cut and suggests new knowledge is needed in this new and valuable area of research (Scillitoe, Poonamallee & Joy, 2016; Scillitoe, Poonamallee & Joy, 2018).
Managing with Algorithms: AI, Power, and Practice in Organizations (Routledge)
Authored by: Latha Poonamallee & Akhil, S.G.
It is a comprehensive textbook to prepare management students to engage effectively, critically, and responsibly with AI in organizations. Bringing together classical management and innovation theores, contemporary AI applications, and systematic power analysis, the book equips future managers to both harness AI’s potential and confront its risks.
Structured in three parts, the book begins with foundational frameworks—socio-technical systems theory, technology and society perspectives, and core management theories reinterpreted for the AI era. It then examines applications across all major management functions—Marketing, HR, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Strategy—using over 30 real-world case studies drawn from different industries, parts of the world, and types of organizations from multinational corporations to nonprofits and social ventures. The final section addresses organizational design, leadership, governance, and the future of algorithmic organizations. Throughout, pedagogical features—learning objectives, vignettes, discussion questions, toolkits, and ethical dilemmas—make the book classroom-ready and adaptable across MBA, undergraduate, and executive education settings.
The text advances an approach of pragmatic criticality: AI is neither celebrated uncritically nor rejected outright but treated as a socio-technical phenomenon requiring managerial judgment, ethical reflection, and contextual awareness. By bridging management theory, functional practice, and critical perspectives, this book fills a critical market gap and is positioned to become the definitive teaching resource on AI and management for business education worldwide.
Entrepreneurship and Social Justice: Beyond Impact Toward Systemic Transformation (Springer)
Edited by Latha Poonamallee, Simy Joy, Anita Howard and Joanne Scillitoe
This volume interrogates entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social justice rather than merely social impact, distinguishing between approaches that ameliorate problems within existing systems versus those that address root causes of systemic inequalities. Moving beyond conventional social impact frameworks, we position entrepreneurship as a mechanism for power redistribution, alternatives to capitalism, and resistance practices that challenge oppressive structures rather than simply serving marginalized populations.
Through rigorous analysis of cooperative enterprises, solidarity economies, and community-led organizing, this volume documents how marginalized communities use entrepreneurial practices to build counter-hegemonic alternatives. It bridges critical entrepreneurship studies, post-capitalist organizing theory, and decolonial praxis to offer frameworks for ventures that redistribute power, challenge colonial legacies, and advance systemic transformation