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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 8, 2021 \u2013 Sean Edmund Rogers, an associate professor of management and the Spachman Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations at the 溏心vlog免费B站, was recognized by the Academy of Management with a 2021 Best Article Award for a co-authored paper published in Academy of Management Discoveries <\/em>in August 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers co-authored the article, \u201cNo Room at the Inn? Disability Access in the New Sharing Economy,\u201d with Rutgers University professors Mason Ameri, Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are all especially honored that our work was recognized by our peers and proud of the impact this paper stands to have on management theory and practice,\u201d said Rogers. \u201cGiven the novelty of what we were writing about \u2013 disability discrimination in the app-based platform economy \u2013 we specifically targeted Academy of Management Discoveries<\/em> as a publishing outlet since it focuses on emerging management topics. We were thrilled when our paper was accepted for publication, and we are floored that it was selected as the best contribution of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the growth of peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms such as Uber and Airbnb, Rogers and his colleagues wanted to explore whether access was equal for all potential users of goods and services. Recent studies had shown racial disparities, and the new study expands the research to examine the experiences of consumers with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a randomized field experiment of 4,000 rental requests made through the Airbnb app, the study found that people with disabilities were significantly less likely to be afforded equal access to these services than those without a disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers used rental requests from fictitious male adults who had one of four disabilities \u2013 blindness, dwarfism, cerebral palsy, or spinal cord injury \u2013 or no disability at all. Preapproval rates were significantly lower for travelers with disabilities than those without disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preapproval rate for travelers without disabilities was 74.5%, compared to 60.9% for travelers with dwarfism, 49.7% for those with blindness, 43.4% for those with cerebral palsy, and 24.8% for those with spinal cord injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFindings like the ones in this paper are important because current equal opportunity regulations and protections do not cover many \u2018gig-economy\u2019 goods and services,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cThe Americans with Disabilities Act, for example, was created long before firms like Airbnb existed or might have even been imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a result, the law contains exclusions that very well may leave most Airbnb hosts \u2013 as well as disabled travelers \u2013 outside of its coverage. Related to lodging, the ADA does not apply to host facilities with fewer than six rental rooms and that are occupied by proprietors as a place of residence. The overwhelming majority of hosts in our sample \u2013 95% \u2013 fit this bill, suggesting a huge potential regulatory void.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results show the need for management theorists and policymakers to revisit the boundaries of firms and economic regulation of organizations in today\u2019s sharing economy, Rogers added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with his role as professor, Rogers is the College of Business\u2019 executive director of inclusive excellence, graduate program director of the health care management program, and a faculty fellow in the Admiral James M. Loy Institute for Leadership at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He was recently elected to the executive board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, a national organization of academics and professionals in industrial relations and human resources. A former sergeant in the U.S. Army, Rogers is a captain and health care administration officer in the Air Force Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers\u2019 research interests include unions and labor-management relations, employment discrimination and workplace diversity, and volunteerism. He is the co-author of more than 20 peer-reviewed papers published in such journals as the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management,<\/em> and Journal of International Management.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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