Past Events
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:
Guidelines for participants, and reading list
Workshop notes
Other resources
Decolonising Alliance - website
Where The Rubber Meets The Road: Racial Justice & The B-School Curriculum - article
Sample module (subject) outlines:
Business and Indigenous Communities
Business Strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Indigenous Leadership & Teamwork
Leading and Managing in Latin America
International Human Resource Management
Corporate Social Responsibility
Responsible Business in Context
Climate Change and its Impact on the World Economy
Transformative Entrepreneurship
Social Marketing and Societal Issues
Capitalism, Justice, and Sustainability
Alternative Economies for Social Transformation
Strategic Management in Emerging Economies
Strategy topics from a popular US textbook
Decolonising the curriculum for first year business studies undergraduates
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 Organizational 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 Organizational 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).
Pre-workshop reading material
1. Decolonising the university in 2020
2. Is decolonising the new black?
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 NGOization 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: Organizational 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 Organization 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)
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)
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)
Contact Details
Lauren McCarthy
Director
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