Starting the search for ‘Global Value’ in Vienna
February 10, 2014
Last week, Sareh Pouryousefi and I attended the kick-off meeting of the new EU FP7 research project – “Global Value.” This is a 2.5 million euro project to develop an innovative framework and tool-kit for assessing the contribution of multi-national corporations (MNCs) towards goals of the millennium declaration – including sustainable development, human rights, transparency, …
CSR in Africa, a report from Botswana
February 3, 2014
I have just come back from a trip to Botswana where I was attending the 2nd Biennial Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) conference – a first to be held in the continent. I had looked forward to visiting Botswana ever since I watched the popular TV series The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. I must admit …
Finding My ‘CSR Family’
January 21, 2014
I recently co-ran a session for the PhD students in the Business School entitled, ‘how to make the most out of conferences.’ As I prepared the slides for this workshop, I began to reflect upon my conference journey, and my elation at finding an academic home for my research at my most recent conference. I …
Business Schools and Responsible and Sustainable Business
December 17, 2013
It is a truth universally acknowledged that after some news of business irresponsibility, call it Enron or the 2007 financial crisis, the question is asked, ‘but what did they (the perpetrators) learn at business school?’. As our latest cohorts of students graduate, it remains a fair question. If business schools claim that they prepare students …
News from a BESTS Scholar in Toronto
June 24, 2013
I had read their work. I had written about their contributions. I had even admired them from afar. Now it was time to spend some quality academic time with some of the most established CSR and Marketing scholars at Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto) as part of my BESTS award from the University …
Philanthropy for Business Ethics… down-under
June 3, 2013
… or ‘up-over’ depending on your perspective… It is a great honour to have been awarded the position of Gourlay Professor for Ethics in Business 2013, at Trinity College, University of Melbourne. This fellowship is a result of a very generous philanthropic endowment of John and Louise Gourlay[i] with the express intention of taking …
Envisioning Sustainable Futures – Sustainability Research Network Launch
May 21, 2013
This week marks the official launch of the Sustainability Research Network (SRN) at the University of Nottingham; a student-led initiative designed to bring together PhD students and early careers researchers with an interest in sustainability. The network has been developed by five PhD students: Georgina Wood (Geography), Sarah Glozer (ICCSR), Eleanor Hadley Kershaw (ISS), Jennifer …
What the Feminists Thought: Taking CSR To New Audiences
March 19, 2013
InterGender.net is a site well worth looking at if you’re ‘into’ gender theories and feminist studies. It was just by chance that I stumbled across a doctoral course they were running called ‘Let’s Get Organised! Gender, Organisations, Policy, Power’ which called for doctoral researchers studying these concepts. A frenzied application later, and I was on …
Social Media Research: Theory and Practice
March 7, 2013
As Facebook fan pages, corporate Twitter handles and branded Google+ hangouts flourish, CSR messaging is increasingly gaining prominence in mainstream social media platforms. Whilst these publically available virtual spaces present unique repositories of cultural information and attractive windows into the social construction of CSR meaning, they also present overwhelming sources of data and bring complex …
My experience at the ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy
March 4, 2013
In October last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the 2012 PhD Sustainability Academy, an annual event of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) hosted by the Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario) in Canada. The purpose of the event was to assist PhD students in developing papers …
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