UMass Boston

Maureen Scully, Professor of Management & Sherry H. Penney Chair in Leadership, Management

Maureen Scully

Department:
Management
Title:
Professor
Sherry H. Penney Chair in Leadership
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05
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Biography

Maureen A. Scully studies how the ideology of meritocracy is invoked to legitimate inequality in the United States and thereby impedes efforts to address poverty. She also examines how “tempered radicals,” working from inside traditional corporate and workplace locations, can engage in change efforts that make a difference and improve social justice.

Area of Expertise

Organizational change efforts, grassroots employee initiatives, beliefs about Inequality and meritocracy, dimensions of diversity at work, labor and management joint efforts

Degrees

PhD, Business (Organizational Behavior), Stanford University

MA, Sociology, Stanford University

BA, Social Studies, Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • Goldman, Janice, and Maureen Scully. 2024. Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level. Theory and Society, 53: 597-624.
  • Heucher, Katrin, Elisa Alt, Sara Soderstrom, Maureen Scully, and Ante Glavas. 2024. Catalyzing action on social and environmental challenges: An integrative review of insider social change agents. Academy of Management Annals, 18(1): 295-347.
  • Rich DeJordy, Maureen Scully, Marc Ventresca, and Douglas Creed. 2020. Inhabited ecosystems: Propelling transformative social change between and through organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly 65(4): 931-971.
  • Sunyu Chai and Maureen Scully. 2019. It’s about distributing rather than sharing: Using labor process theory to probe the ‘sharing’ economy. Journal of Business Ethics 159(4): 943-960.
  • Maureen Scully, Sandra Rothenberg, Erynn Beaton, and Zvi Tang. 2018. Mobilizing the wealthy: Doing ‘privilege work’ and challenging the roots of inequality, Business & Society 57(6): 1075-1113.
  • Maureen Scully, Stacy Blake-Beard, Diane Felicio, and Regina M. O’Neill. 2017. Climbing the ladder or kicking it over? Bringing mentoring and class into critical contact. In S. Blake-Beard and A. Murrell (Eds.), New Directions in Mentoring Research: 161-184.
  • Maureen Scully. 2016. Social movements and organizations through a critical management studies lens: Metaphor, mechanism, mobilization, or more? In A. Prasad, P. Prasad, A.J. Mills, and J.H. Mills (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies: 233-247