17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
3:02 p.m.
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To register please go here<https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D0BB17D7C358B018.par>ar>.
Within business schools, violence is rarely mentioned as an outcome of business
activities. Yet in contemporary studies from various fields, a number of connections
between business and violence have been made increasingly explicit, from the expulsions
caused by global market dynamics (cf. Sassen 2014), to violence associated with gendered
globalization (Hearn et al. 2017), to the violent outcomes of firm activities in various
developing contexts (e.g. Chowdhury in press; Varman and al Amoudi 2016), to
intra-organizational emotional abuse (Penttinen et al. 2019). While violence in these
contexts takes different shapes, a seemingly common feature is the role of invisibilities:
of violence itself, of those people (and sometimes non-human animals) on whom violence is
perpetrated, and of the role that business directly or indirectly plays in this.
In this seminar, we invite four expert scholars on the question of business and violence
to present and discuss insights from some of their recent and ongoing work:
o Dr. Rashedur Chowdhury: (PhD, Judge Business School, University of
Cambridge) Associate Professor at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton,
and a Batten Fellow at Darden Business School, University of Virginia. His most recent
works focus on the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh and the Rohingya and Syrian refugee
crises.
o Prof. Jeff Hearn: Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation; Research
Director, GODESS Institute (Gender, Organisation, Diversity, Equality, Social
Sustainability), Hanken. He has been involved long-term in international research and
policy development around both (anti-)violence, and gender and diversity in organisations
and management, e.g. the books, Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations 2001, and
Unsustainable Institutions of Men 2019.
o Dr. Marjut Jyrkinen: Associate Professor in Working Life Equality and Gender
Studies, University of Helsinki, and director of research consortium on sustainable
working life (weallfinland.fi), funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of
Finland. Her research on gendered violence and violations in and outside organizations,
leadership, and gendered ageism has been published in Gender, Work and Organization,
Journal of Business Ethics, Gender in Management, and Work, Employment and Society. Her
latest book, with Elina Penttinen and Elisabeth Wide, is Emotional Workplace Abuse. A new
Reseach Approach, published in 2019 by Palgrave MacMillan.
o Prof. Rohit Varman: Professor of Marketing and Consumption at University of
Birmingham. He uses interpretive methodologies and his current inter-disciplinary research
focuses on structures of subalternity, market violence, and modern slavery. He has
published in leading journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of
Retailing, Organization Science, and Human Relations.
Visit the webpage of the event here<https://www.hanken.fi/en/node/2327821>. The
seminar is free of charge but registration is mandatory, please register
here<https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D0BB17D7C358B018.par>ar>. For questions please
contact the organisers at ccr@hanken.fi<mailto:ccr@hanken.fi>.
Warm welcome!
CCR
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