Forthcoming Books

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 (forthcoming with 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).