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DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics & Equity (L
 CBEE)\n\nAharon Cohen Mohliver\n\nLondon Business School\n\nHow Social Uph
 eaval Shaped DEI Hiring Practices\n\nDate: Friday\, February 13\, 2026\n	Ti
 me:10:30 AM -12:00 PM\n	Location: Bronfman 210\n\nAll are cordially invited
  to attend.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nPartisan divides increasingly shape how Amer
 icans—and the organizations they work for—respond to salient social issues
 \, yet evidence directly connecting partisanship to substantive organizati
 onal decisions remains limited. We analyze how the partisan orientation of
  employees\, measured via political donations\, relates to firms’ adoption
  of DEI (Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion) hiring practices at 705 Fortu
 ne 500 and S&P 500 companies following the murder of George Floyd\, a pivo
 tal event that heightened the salience of race relations and triggered wid
 espread calls for change. Tracking DEI job creation\, we find a threefold 
 increase almost exclusively among liberal-leaning firms\, while conservati
 ve-leaning firms showed little change\, breaking previously parallel trend
 s. Institutional theory expects convergence around best practices\, but ou
 r findings reveal that legitimacy signals can fracture under polarization\
 , refracting through partisan moral frames and producing durable divergenc
 e rather than isomorphic diffusion. This split is driven by the political 
 composition of employees and management\, not industry or geography\, and 
 is robust to multiple alternative explanations. The study extends research
  on contested practices by showing polarization can invert legitimacy sign
 als\, qualifying neo-institutional theory with new boundary conditions for
  mimetic diffusion\, and demonstrating that shocks induce cleavages in dir
 ection\, not merely degree. More broadly\, the results reveal a non-monoli
 thic institutional environment\, where salient events generate opposing or
 ganizational responses depending on stakeholder alignment\, inviting new t
 heorizing about contested practices and field-level change in polarized co
 ntexts.\n
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DTEND:20260213T170000Z
LOCATION:Room 210\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:[Cancelled] Organizational Behavior Area Research Seminar Series: A
 haron Cohen Mohliver
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/cancelled-organizational-
 behavior-area-research-seminar-series-aharon-cohen-mohliver-371065
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