Why do the majority of (white) academics within management and organization studies (MOS) endorse discourses of equality, diversity and inclusion on the one hand yet ignore the epistemic injustice suffered by black scholars on the other? We demonstrate how white supremacy within a historically racist academia marginalizes non-white bodies from knowledge production and dissemination by embedding epistemic injustice in MOS, and diminishing their utility globally. To expose the multifaceted harm caused by white supremacy, we reflect on black scholars’ experiences of epistemic injustice, conceptualizing their work (i.e. black scholarship) as underpinned by epistemic struggle and epistemic survival. We conceptualize epistemic struggle as striving to produce and disseminate knowledge in the face of difficulties and resistance generated by structural and agential powers. Epistemic survival denotes the sustained presence of black scholarship through compromise, collusion and radicalism. To this end, we propose collective intellectual activism based on cross-racial coalitions to eliminate epistemic injustice and locate black scholarship at the center of MOS.

为什么管理和组织研究（MOS）中的大多数（白人）学者一方面赞成平等，多样性和包容性的论述，而另一方面却忽略了黑人学者在认识论上的不公正呢？我们证明，在历史上种族主义的学术界中，白人至上主义如何通过将认知不公正嵌入MOS并在全球范围内削弱其效用，将非白人机构从知识生产和传播中边缘化。为了揭示白人至上主义所造成的多方面危害，我们反思黑人学者的认识论不公正经历，将他们的工作（即黑人奖学金）概念化为认识论斗争和认识论生存的基础。我们将认识论斗争概念化为在面对结构性和代理性权力所产生的困难和抵制时，努力产生和传播知识。认知生存是指通过妥协，串通和激进主义，黑人学者的持续存在。为此，我们提出了基于跨种族联盟的集体智力行动主义，以消除认知上的不公正，并将黑人学者置于MOS的中心。