Dear Colleagues



Please find below details of the second online symposium Organising for or Against Extinction: Grasping the Nettle organised by Rennes School of Business, Centre for Unframed Thinking (CUT).  This will be run over two days, 6th March 9.30-11am and 7th March 2pm-4.30 pm. All timings in Central European time (CET)



Looking forward to seeing some of you there!



With all best wishes,



Sarah



Organising for or Against Extinction: Grasping the Nettle 

Organisers: Marco Michelotti, Sarah Robinson and Julia Roloff (Rennes School of Business)

Link to Resister https://forms.office.com/e/hiw73Xb3Cp





Monday 6th March 9.30- 11am (CET) CUT in Conversation:

Grasping the Nettle: Putting the Worker Front and Centre 

With CUT Senior Fellows:

Professor Paul Adler, University of Southern California

Professor Chris Nyland, Monash University, Australia

Professor Lucy Taksa, Deakin University Australia 

 

Talking to this year’s Academy of Management timely theme, ‘Putting the Worker Front and Center’ and contributing to its plea to: ‘…rebalance our attention, and pivot towards those at the very core of productive enterprise, namely the workers’, three of our CUT senior fellow discuss the urgency of grasping the nettle in terms of acting to rise to the challenges of putting the worker first and centre with reference to their own research, scholarship and activism. 

Each speaker will offer a 10-minute provocation leading to a wider conversation with the programme organisers and audience.



Tuesday 7th March 2pm – 4.30 pm (CET) CUT seminar 

Grasping the Nettle: Repositioning Purpose for Human Flourishing



Professor Steve Kempster, University of Lancaster, UK

Steve Kempster will offer an argument around the purpose of business. Steve will argue that business has the potential to be (perhaps the most) significant mechanism to enhance humanity. Much debate (understandably) criticises business – particularly the neo-liberal infused business model. Yet for all of our interests we need an alternative model – a model that avoids calls for de-growth. Without doubt society needs more from business. Creating a future by going beyond ‘business as usual’, and pursuing a purpose beyond profit is of paramount importance for all as the threats to humanity cannot be solved by governments alone. Steve will offer an argument centred around a purpose-led systemic approach of realising value for all stakeholders: shareowners, employees, the planet and their communities. Steve will outline some case studies of how this is being undertaken and also tools by which this can occur. He will argue that we need a significant reframing of business as a system of multi-capitals pursuing good growth through realising Good Dividends : from business about profit to business as human flourishing.  





Professor Annemette Kjærgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

The Nordic Nine is a set of nine transformative capabilities that balance the advancement of the individual student with responsibilities that stretch beyond business and into society. The Nordic Nine capabilities have been developed as a commitment to students, businesses and society and serve as a future guideline for CBS’ programmes and courses. The goal is that with the implementation of Nordic Nine the following will be achieved: 1) Excellent mono-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transformative quality of teaching 2) Business skills and transformational capabilities possessed by all graduates 3) Positioned CBS as a global business university with a unique Nordic approach.

While the Nordic Nine has many positive connotations, existing educational regulations as well as learning and teaching activities challenge the degree of transformation possible and the concept may well end up as a nice vision rather than actual change. In this talk I take a critical view on the idea behind the concept as well as its implementation and discuss the limitations of top down, institutional approaches to transformational education. Moreover, I focus on what could be done to introduce new teaching and learning activities to develop students’ transformational capabilities.



Dr Maribel Blasco, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Permahaven is a new permaculture garden at CBS. The garden is intended to function as a hub for learning, knowledge sharing and dissemination about sustainability, where the local community, together with CBS students and staff can share their knowledge and contribute to enhancing biodiversity and wellbeing in our municipality. At the talk, I will provide a short introduction to permaculture, and to the objectives of Permahaven, and I will reflect on how we think that permaculture thinking can be useful in reimagining sustainability in a business context. The idea for Permahaven came about during a bottom-up round of proposals for CBS strategy, instigated by top management. The process has, however, been bumpy, not least due to organizational structure challenges, specifically the difficulty of ‘placing’ the garden within any one organizational department and agreeing on its purpose, role and image within CBS. I will describe these challenges, and of how the garden may be seen as a boundary object that transgresses institutional categories and requires a tricky form of ‘cooperation without consensus’.



Professor Kai Hockerts, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (CUT Senior Fellow)

This paper explores the variables predicting the behavioral intentions of students in response to perceived irrespon¬sible management conduct. Rather than conceptua¬lizing these reactions as a dichotomous variable (to acquiesce or to oppose) we propose that behavioral intentions can vary. We differentiate between an intention (1) to acquiesce if the perceived cost to society is smaller than the individual benefit created, (2) to quit the situation altogether, (3) to confront colleagues about perceived irresponsible behavior, or (4) to report them to appropriate stakeholders/authorities. Using data obtained from a survey of business school students, the paper develops and validates measures. Secondly, the paper tests the dimensionality of the constructs and their distinctiveness. In particular, we test how antecedents such as an attitudinal tolerance towards irresponsible behavior, perceived norms by respected peers, self-efficacy, and expected support from colleagues affect the different behavioral intentions. In doing so the paper proposes and validates measures of both student reactions to perceived irresponsible management behavior as well as their antecedents. The resulting scale provides the basis for future research into responsible management education.















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