This special issue explores ethnic privileges in the context of work, organization and management from varied methodological and theoretical traditions, and across different international contexts and disparate fields. They all have strong theoretical and practical implications, developing therefore new perspectives and insights into understanding power privileges held by the ethnic majority in the management of people in organizations. We hope that readers will enjoy this special issue. While we attempted to tackle some important issues regarding ethnic privilege at work, future research can look more in depth into questions like: