ETHOS Past Events

2024

January 2024 ‘Corporate Wrongdoing’

‘Corporate scams: mechanisms of normalized wrongdoing’ – Daniel Fisher (University of Sussex)
‘Predatory entrepreneurship’ – Maja Korica (IESEG)

February 2024 ‘Sustainable Finance’

‘Pension funds and climate change: How to responsibilize systemic risk?’ - Saeid Rahanjam (Bayes Business School)
‘Understanding best practice in industry self-regulation: the case of the UK financial services industry’ – Susan Cooper (King’s Business School)

March 2024 ‘Dimensions of inequality’

‘Beyond promises of entrepreneurship: Examining the role of intermediaries in promoting entrepreneurship in the Global South’ - Dipsikha Guha Majumdar (Bayes Business School)
‘The Persistence of Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Postcolonial Exploration of Victim Accounts’ – Ajnesh Prasad (Tecnológico de Monterrey Business School)

April 2024 ‘Climate change governance’

‘Setting Up the Playground: How Public and Private Actors Collectively Shape the Governance Sphere’- Saeid Rahanjam (Bayes Business School)
‘Organisational re-engagement work after stakeholder engagement failure: the case of UNFCCC COP26’- Lydia Milly Certa (Surrey Business School)

May 2024 ‘Postcolonial contestations, localised possibilities’

‘Reclaiming the past as constitutive to the politics of CSR: Insights from a decolonial experience in the Caribbean’- Nolywé Delannon (Universitié Laval)
‘The Ontological Politics of CSR: Greening Extractivism or Enabling Pluriversal Futures?’ - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes (Hanken School of Economics, Finland)
16^th May 2024: ETHOS 10 year anniversary symposium: Where next for responsible enterprise? Centring equity, equality and plurality. This summer, ETHOS The Centre for Responsible Enterprise turns ten years old. In those ten years to say a lot has happened is an understatement. We’ve seen the rise of populism, Brexit, global pandemics, record-breaking temperatures, the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and hyper speed shifts in technology, amongst others. The world is looking very different from 2014. Business, workers, communities, and the natural world are facing new challenges as well as the age-old. Yet innovation and activism, thankfully, persist. To celebrate our 10-year anniversary, ETHOS invites friends old, new and forthcoming to discuss the future of responsible enterprise. In particular, and building on a forthcoming special issue in Human Relations (D’Cruz et al., 2024), we aim to celebrate work which takes the realm of CSR (broadly defined) into a new era, by centring alternative epistemologies, methodologies and theories. By diversifying our perspectives, centring the environment, and studying the micro contexts of those who interact with business and their activities, we hope to enable a more critical and productive space for scholarship.

June 2024 ‘Individual Change Agents'

‘Giving people like me bones to gnaw on”: environmental employee activists contesting and fitting in CSR boundaries’- Arthur Gauthier Penhirin (ESCP) with Aurélien Acquier & Jean-Pascal Gond.
‘Saving the World One Wind Turbine at a Time: How managers create meaning at work in times of climate crisis’- Johanna Järvelä (IESEG) with Charles Barthold & Steffen Boehm.

September 2024: ‘Business, History & Ethics’

‘Early Modern London Merchants: Social, Responsive, Responsible, Charitable?’- William Pettigrew, University of Lancaster
‘The historical roots of the erasure of Palestinian voice in society and organisations’- Zahira Jaser, University of Sussex.

2023

January 2023

‘The ‘good’ CSR agent: unpicking discourses of hegemonic masculinities from CSR implementation’- Kerrie Howard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘“It’s about them, not us.” Understanding Socially Stratified Careers in the UK Medical Profession’ – Louise Ashley (Queen Mary University of London)

March 2023

‘Entrepreneurship as emancipation? The body work and endeavours of the hijra ‘third gender’ entrepreneurs’ – Enrico Fontana (Cranfield School of Management)
‘Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating as qualculative work: Historical insights from a pioneering agency’ – Jean Pascal-Gond/ Wafa Ben Khaled (Bayes Business School/ ESPC)

April 2023

‘Return Smiles to Faces: The Role of Compassion in Organisational Growth after Extreme Events’ - Lucrezia Nava / Daniel Beunza (Bayes Business School)
‘The thrill of the fight: Emotional regulation to debunk fake news online’ – Itziar Castello/ Marie Joachim (Bayes Business School)

May 2023

‘Examining the Theoretical Foundations of Organisational Adaptation to Physical Climate Change Impacts’ – Joana Huaman (University of Desarrollo)
‘An audience-based perspective on firms’ CSR and stakeholder disapproval in stigmatized contexts’ – Mohamed Sadri (ESSEC)

June 2023

‘Prefiguring alternative organizing: A comparative study of two community collectives’-Babita Bhatt / Israr Qureshi (The Australian National University)
‘#Knowyourworth: Social Media Influencers and Justifications of Worthy Work’ – Sarah Glozer (The University of Bath)

September 2023 ‘Hate speech / Emotions online’:

‘Managing Online Violence’ – Olivier Sibai (Birkbeck, University of London)
‘The Dark Sides of Social Media Communication for Organizing: The Communicative Constitution of Polarized Collectives in Digital Bubbles’ - Gastone Gualtieri (Università della Svizzera italiana)

October 2023 ‘Public/private interactions’:

‘New Political Actors or New Politics: Political CSR and Collaborative Governance in the Regulatory Capitalism Era’- Saeid Rahanjam (Bayes Business School)
‘Legitimacy Seeking and Field-to-Field Interaction: The Case of the Voluntary Carbon Market’ - Gian Maria Mallarino (Bocconi)
PRME UK and Ireland Business and Society Research Development Workshop Series
PRME UK and Ireland, in conjunction with partner institutions (City University London, University of Bath, University College Dublin, University of Glasgow, and University of Nottingham) is holding a series of five paper development workshops between 2021-2025 to help early and mid-career scholars develop their business and society work for publication and impact. This third workshop was hosted by the Centre for Responsible Enterprise (ETHOS) at Bayes Business School on October 13th, 2023.

November 2023 ‘Development, value chains & market actors’

‘Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar’ – Benjamin Neimark (Queen Mary University of London)
‘South-South Trade and Uneven Development: The Case of Rice Value Chains’ – Shreya Sinha (Queen Mary University of London)

2022

January 2022

‘Stretching the occupation: How culturally diverse occupational members reconfigure competencies, tasks, and networks within occupations’ – Joelle Evans (Bayes Business School)
‘What’s in a Twitter Debate about Responsible Business Conduct? Stakeholder Deliberation as Everyday Talk in Social Media Arenas’- Michael Etter (King’s Business School)

February 2022

‘Mirroring authoritative personae: Shareholder engagement on carbon emissions’ – Rieneke Slager, Emma Sjöström & Jean-Pascal Gond (Bayes Business School)
‘Social ontology of the modern corporation: Its role in understanding organisations’ – Jeroen Veldman (Nyenrode Business Universiteit)

March 2022

‘Everything Must Change So That Everything Can Stay the Same: Open Access in UK Academic Publishing’- Sara Marquez-Gallardo (De Montfort University)
‘Ideology, Incompetence and Reflexivity in a University Incubator’- Rasmus Koss Hartmann (Copenhagen Business School)

April 2022

‘Mapping Climate Change through a Macrocosm: A UNESCO Tagged World Heritage Site in India’- Deepti Ganapathy (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
‘How Political Actors Co-Construct CSR and Its Effect on Firms’ Political Access: A Discursive Institutionalist View’- Onna van den Broek (Copenhagen Business School)

May 2022

‘How our business worldview shapes the treasure we seek, the purpose we pursue and the strategies we adopt’- Andrew Baughan (Bayes Business School)
‘Decolonizing Stakeholder Engagement: From the Margins to the Center’ - Alysha Shivji (Manchester Business School)

June 2022

‘I’m not racist, they’re just Facebook jokes: How organisations deal with viral racist incidents’- Susan Cooper / Lucas Amaral (King’s Business School/ IESEG)
‘“Let’s go on the land instead” Valuing biodiversity through an indigenous-led conversation impact bond’ – Diane-Laure Arjalies / Bobby Banerjee (Ivey Business School / Bayes Business School)

September 2022

‘Inclusive and sustainable finance’- Atul Shah (City, University of London)
‘The supplicant middle manager’ – Kerrie Howard (Royal Holloway, University of London)

October 2022

‘Science Or Morality? The Effects of Frames on Stakeholder Dialogue, a Field Experiment’ – Lucrezia Nava (Bayes Business School)
‘Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action and (Post)Extractivism’ - Paula Serafini (Queen Mary University of London)

November 2022

‘Development on credit: Impact investing and the financialisation of development in Brazil’ – Jessica Sklair (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Organized misogyny in and around disaster capitalism: The case of Cambodian garment workers’- Lauren McCarthy (Bayes Business School)

2021

28th January 2021: Workshop on Decolonizing the Business School Curriculum

In this virtual workshop, we explored what it means to decolonize the business school curriculum. Facilitated breakout groups explored what this might look like in practice in terms of curriculum design, teaching, administration and research. Groups discussed possibilities of decolonizing specific subjects in the business school curriculum such as International Business, Strategy, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility among others. We encourage participants to reflect on their own education practices and identify areas for change.

The workshop will be useful for people teaching and working in business schools. It will give participants an opportunity to work in small groups to identify practical steps they might take to push for a transformational change to decolonize the business school curriculum.

Workshop on Decolonizing the Business School Curriculum - Resources:

Sample module (subject) outlines:

September 2021

‘Piracy as Organisational Wrongdoing: from Public-Private “Partnerships” to Public-Private Pirates’ - Daniel Fisher & Alessando Tirapani (Bayes Business School)
‘Shifting focus: A capitals theory of social impact’- Gorgi Krlev (University of Heidelberg).

October 2021

‘Disruptive compliance-resistance dialectics for Early Career Academics and the case for subversive affirmation’- Carl Stefan Roth-Kirkegaard (University of Southern Denmark)
‘Heroes, Villains, and Victims: An exploration of social movement narratives surrounding breast cancer’- Mo Cheded (Lancaster University).

November 2021

‘Environmental Racism and (In)justice in the Anthropocene: Addressing the Silences and Erasures in Organisation Studies’- Bobby Banerjee (Bayes Business School)
‘Deliberative policy work for sustainable finance: A European Commission ‘experiment’ to tackle grand challenges’- Stephanie Giamporcaro / Jean- Pascal Gond / Celine Louche (Bayes Business School).

2020

28 January 2020

Standing the tide: The dynamics of private and public governance in MSI development Johanna Jarvela - Bayes Business School

Corporate Corruption: A review and an agenda for future research Armando Castro - UCL

25 February 2020

Category Work in a Fragmented Field: The Emergence of Social Enterprise as a New Organisational Category Chenjian Zhang - University of Bath

The role of the state in CSR in developing countries: The case of the Zambian mining sector Elisavet Mantzari - Birmingham Business School

31 March 2020

Supporting business model innovation for sustainable development: Lessons from off-grid energy (co-authored with Philipp Trotter) Aoife Haney - Said Business School Oxford

28 April 2020

Indentured Servant to Market Actor: The Institutional Transformation of Darfur’s Untouchables Samer Abdelnour - UCL

Seeing the infected wound as the band-aid peels off. The Forestry Stewardship Council and land-based conflict in Chile/Wallmapu from a radical flank perspective Rajiv Maher Copenhagen - Business School

26 May 2020

Heart, Mind & Body: #NoMorePage3 and the Replenishment of Emotional Energy Lauren McCarthy - Royal Holloway

From Movements to Managers: Crossing Organisational Boundaries in the Field of Sustainability Grace Augustine - Bayes Business School

23 June 2020

Slow train coming: a process of de-commensuration between efficiency and value Daniel Fisher - Bayes Business School

Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below Bobby Banerjee - Bayes Business School

1 July 2020 2-5pm BST. Via Zoom.

Decolonizing the Business School: Panel Discussion and Workshop

In July 2020, ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at City, University of London hosted a workshop on decolonizing the business school.

Following global protests, issues of race and the legacy of colonialism are more pressing than ever. Universities around the world have been asked how they can decolonize their curriculum. This process is more advanced in the humanities and some social sciences. Business Schools need to join the process.

In this virtual workshop, we explored what it means to decolonize the business school. We also looked at what this might look like in practice in terms of curriculum design, teaching, administration and research. During the workshop, we brought together a group of experts on the topic who work in business schools as well as other disciplines. We also encouraged people to reflect on their own education practices and identify areas for change. Finally, we strived to identify specific actions that we can take to decolonize business schools.

The workshop will be useful for people teaching and working in business schools. It provides an overview of what decolonizing means for the business school. It also gave participants an opportunity to work in small groups to identify practical steps they might take to push for a transformational change to decolonize the business school.

Panelists included Gurminder Bhambra (University of Sussex), Sadhvi Dar (Queen Mary University of London and Cofounder of Decolonizing Alliance), Stella Nkomo (University of Pretoria), Banu Ozkazanc-Pan (Brown University) and Jenny Rodriguez (University of Manchester and Cofounder of Decolonizing Alliance).

Event flyer

Pre-workshop reading material

1. Decolonising the university in 2020

2. Is decolonising the new black?

3. A postcolonial and anti-colonial reading of ‘African’ leadership and management in organisation studies: Tensions, contradictions and possibilities

4. CSR as Gendered Neocoloniality in the Global South

5. Accounting for British History

5 August 2020

The care revolution: How our response to the coronavirus is our last chance to prevent ecologically driven societal collapse
Dr Rupert Read, Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia

2019

29 January 2019

The public responsibility of platform corporations Alessandro Tirapani & Mislav Radic - Bayes Business School

Discursive construction and maintenance of corruption in the field of elite sport in Finland Jukka Rintamaki - Loughborough University

26 February 2019

The Market for Institutions Mikael Homanen - Bayes Business School

From hippies to suits: Nested paradoxical tensions in CSR consultants’ identity work Szilvia Mosonyi - Queen Mary University of London

09 April 2019

Governing the Ungovernable: The NGOisation of Palestine Bobby Banerjee - Bayes Business School

The Corporation, Law and Capitalism Grietje Baars - City University London

12 April 2019

An Introduction to the Economies of Worth

30 April 2019

Seven Moral Rules Found All Around the World Oliver Curry - University of Oxford

"Putting stars in their eyes” ; Evaluation and power of evaluative-infrastructure providers Anne-Sophie Barbe - iaelyon School of Management

28 May 2019

Behind every anarchist warrior, there is an anarchist mother: Organisational roles and interaction in a protest camp Maarit Laihonen - Aalto University

Questionable Ethics in the Academy of Management: A Commentary on Tsoukas Hugh Willmott - Bayes Business School

25 June 2019

‘B’ the change you want to see: Can commensuration help in addressing grand challenges? Fannie Couture - University of Sydney

Functional silos leading to means-end decoupling in sustainability Lucas Amaral Lauriano - King's College

24 September 2019

Tax Avoidance and Labour Mikael Homanen - Bayes Business School

Action Is Not Determined By One’s Values: Morality, Materiality and Financial Reform on Wall Street Daniel Beunza - Bayes Business School

27 September 2019

Microfoundations of Corporate Social Responsibility: Consolidating and bridging the sociological and psychological perspectives

29 October 2019

My Book about Me: CEO autobiography genre and the reproduction of myths legitimating Income Inequality Hamid Foroughi - Portsmouth University

The common truths that people won’t tell you: Executives’ translation of community logics into corporate social responsibility practices in the Bangladeshi apparel industry Enrico Fontana & Viviana Pilato (Skype ) - University of Victoria

26 November 2019

Is business school education a virtue or a vice? Operationalizing Bourdieu’s concepts, their antecedents and consequences Annette Yunus Pendrey - Bayes Business School

Talking the Talk: Performative Mechanisms behind SDG narratives Onna van den Broek - King's College

28 November 2019

Mobilizing the Economies of Worth in Organisation and Market Studies

2018

30 January 2018

Shooting for the stars: Co-constructing a professional mandate for corporate social responsibility Szilvia Mosonyi - Bayes Business School

Governing corporate responsibility through financial markets: The case of French socially responsible investing Jean-Pascal Gond/Stephanie Giamporcaro - Bayes Business School / Nottingham Trent University

27 February 2018

Barking up the wrong tree: Why proposals to abolish corporate personality are misguided David Gindis - Hertfordshire Business School

27 March 2018

The Role of Spaces in Institutional Struggles: How the Venezuelan Art Sector Survived the Bolivarian Revolution Thomas Roulet - King's College

Carrot or Stick? Strategic Corporate Governance and the Incentivization of Attention to Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues Kevin Chuah - London Business School

24 April 2018

Depositors Disciplining Banks - The Impact of Scandals Mikael Homanen - Bayes Business School

Organised Skepticism Andre Spicer - Bayes Business School

17 May 2018

How ESG Engagement Creates Value for Investors and Companies: Launch of the Research Report commissioned by the Principle for Responsible Investment

29 May 2018

Everything must Change so that Everything can Stay the Same: Open Access in UK Academic Publishing Saralara Marquez-Gallardo - Bayes Business School

How categorical boundaries are constructed: Organic farming and the dynamics of (de)stigmatization Marjo Siltaoja - Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics

26 June 2018

Emotional compensation in frame amplification, or how Californians got to live a plastic-free life Itziar Castello - University of Surrey

The Busyness Paradox: Exploring the Addictive Timeflow of Busyness Ioana Lupu - ESSEC

25 September 2018

Econormativity: how market rationality inhibits radical conflict in and around organizations Alessandro Tirapani - Bayes Business School

When self-fulfilling theories seem to fail: Board declassification activism, Harvard’s Shareholder Rights Project and the classified board academic debate Rachelle Bellinga - MINES ParisTech

30 October 2018

On the lack of social moral efficiency in public function firm delivery: Towards a new approach of firm responsibility Daniel Fisher - Bayes Business School

The corporate license to operate: governing the capacity for corporate agency in Finnish mining Johanna Jarvela - Bayes Business School

27 November 2018

Corporate governance innovation in the digital age Kevin Chuah (& Jeroen Veldman) - London Business School (& Bayes )

Employee resource groups: The potential for micro-emancipation Erica Foldy - NYU Wagner School of Public Service

2017

31 January 2017

Unintended consequences of social-symbolic work: Sustainability and the sustaining of social inequality in rural Côte d’Ivoire Sebastien Mena - Bayes Business School

28 February 2017

Michael Etter - Bayes Business School

28 March 2017

Historicizing the construction of the ‘good’ business school: An analysis of legitimacy in the plurality of business school historical narratives Annette Yunus - Pendrey Bayes Business School

Stubborn irresponsibility at Royal Bank of Scotland Jukka Rintamaki - Bayes Business School

Privatization and Organizations: a Review and Research Agenda Mislav Radic - Bayes Business School

April 2017

Organizing for the common good: revisiting performativity

20 May 2017

Workshop ‘Corporate Governance and Systemic Risk'

30 May 2017

Institutional silence. An institutional analysis of the illegal toxic waste dumping in South Italy Valeria Cavotta - Imperial College

Enacting-writing? On bringing critique closer to home Marton Racz - Bayes Business School

June 2017

How Can Investors’ Engagement in Environmental, Social and Governance Issues Create and Deliver Value?

7 June 2017

Workshop ‘Corporate Governance and Reporting

19 September 2017

‘Why Not Rip It Up and Start Again?’ Consciousness-Raising as Institutional Work for Gender Equality Lauren McCarthy - Royal Holloway

Wall Street: Towards a Behavioural Mid-Range Theory of Ethical Risk Alexandra Dobra-Kiel - Warwick University

31 October 2017

Unintended Decoupling: The Role of Internal Conditions in Explaining Policy-Practice Misalignment at UK Business Schools with Explicit Commitments Annie Snelson-Powell - University of Bath

Climate Bonds InitiativeAssembling Green Bonds: The Development of a Market across Fields of Expertise Aneil Tripathy - Brandeis University

11 November 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Economy

28 November 2017

Moral Agency in Charities and Business Corporations: Exploring the constraints of Law and Regulation Samuel Mansell - University of St Andrews

PhD Christmas Surgery

2016

Corporate Governance Roundtable - Human Capital Debate, Co-funded by Bayes and the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants (January 2016)

Corporate Governance Roundtable - Relationship between Taxation and Corporate Governance, Co-funded by Bayes and the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants (April 2016)

Amsterdam workshop with practitioners, regulators, standard setters, and academics (February 2016)

The Dutch Roundtable was part of Dutch Corporate Governance Code Revision Debate and the basis for a submission to the Dutch Corporate Governance Commission.

Paris workshop with practitioners, regulators, standard setters, and academics (April 2016)

Oslo workshop with practitioners, regulators, standard setters, and academics (August 2016)

Presentation of the the Corporate governance for a Changing World at a high-profile conference in Brussels. Keynote speeches delivered by Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality; John Kay, well known author, economist and columnist at Financial Times; and Richard Howitt, MEP and incoming CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council. (September 2016)

'Key Principles for a new corporate governance model' workshop, in which Iain Wright, MP and chair of the BEIS Strategy Committee, gave the keynote speech; and speakers included George Dallas (ICGN), Colin Melvin (ex-Hermes), Charles Cotton (CIPD), Stefan Stern (FT), and Marilyn Croser (CORE). (March 2016)

2015

Unpacking Sustainability Metrics (May 2015)

13th European Academic Conference on Internal Audit and Corporate Governance (April 2015)

How to be good? From social movement to alternative organization - The case of Premium Cola (February 2015)

Is Corporate Governance past its sell-by date? Co-funded by Bayes and the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, with FT coverage by Stefan Stern: What is a company for? (October 2015)

London workshop with practitioners, regulators, standard setters, and academics (September 2015)

New York workshop with practitioners, regulators, standard setters, and academics

Zurich workshop with practitioners, regulators, standard setters, and academics (October 2015)

2014

Book Launch: Predatory Capitalism and the Corporate Reform Manifesto (December, 2014)

Management Control for Sustainability: Exploring the Roles of Tools, Practices and Packages (November 2014)

Launch of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise - What is the responsibility of business in addressing the challenge of sustainability? - (June 2014)

2013

The Changing Nature of the Relationship between NGOs and Corporations: collaborating beyond fences (November 2013)

The Organizational Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility Standardization: Building and Mobilizing Effectively CSR Standards (November 2013)

(How) Can Investors Influence Corporate Social Responsibility? Shareholder Engagement Mechanisms, Strategies and Impacts (October 2013)

Special Preview of "Red Ant Dream" (September 2013)

Debating CSR. Bayes Business School. (February 2013)

Debating Shareholder Value. Bayes Business School. (April 2013)

CSR and Sustainability Consultancy. Bayes Business School. (May 2013)

CSR and Communication. Bayes Business School. Joint event with Copenhagen Business School. (May 2013)