Author: Steph

I am a professor at the University of Birmingham Business School specializing in organizational history and international strategy.

AOM PDW Craft & Organizations

Steph

The ultimate goal for this PDW is to introduce the audience to the topic of craft and organizations in a way that emphasizes both its theoretical and practical significance and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss pre-submitted extended abstracts with editorial board members of diverse management journals.

This PDW will be divided into halves. In the first half, open to everyone, guest speakers will introduce the topic of craft and organizations. In the second half, participants who submit abstracts will be grouped at tables with editorial board members of diverse management journals that have affinity with craft-related research. Each participant will have an opportunity to introduce their abstract with the rest of the table and receive developmental feedback from an editorial board member.

We want to create a friendly and developmental environment for everyone interested on this line of research. We invite interested participants that are currently engaged or interested in engaging in craft and organizations research to submit extended abstracts (Max 900 words) for research on craft and organizations, both broadly defined.

Please use the following link to submit your abstract by July 14th. 

Organizers:

Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez, UT San Antonio

Jochem Kroezen, Erasmus University

Speakers:

Innan Sasaki, University of Warwick 

Michael G. Pratt, Boston College 

Editorital Board Members:

Tobias Pret, Illinois State University

Silviya Svejenova Velikova, Copenhagen Business School

Jo-Ellen Pozner, Santa Clara University

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Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez
The University of Texas at San Antonio
jose.cerecedolopez@utsa.edu
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AOM 2023 PDW: Developing Theory from Historical Research

Steph

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AOM 2023 PDW 

Developing Theory from Historical Research 

Session # 17948 | Sponsors: MH, OMT, RM, TIM, STR 

Aug 5, 2023 from 3:15PM to 05:15PM ET 

Submission Deadline: July 17, 2023 

Who is this PDW for? 

If you are: 

  1. a.) engaged in (or interested in) conducting research with historical data, and 
  2. b.) doing inductive (i.e. theory-building rather than hypothesis-testing) work, and 
  3. c.) hoping to publish your work in top management journals 

then this is the PDW for you! 

Overview 

This PDW brings together a distinguished panel of scholars to stimulate an interactive and developmental exchange on conducting inductive research using historical data. Our core focus will be on the theory-building / theoretical contribution part of the research process – how do we understand the past to inform the present? How do we move from the setting being studied to higher-level conceptualizations, while maintaining a balance between generalization and contextualization? 

Importantly, our aim will be to focus on these questions from a practical standpoint, taking away useful advice that scholars can adopt in their research practices. And for those of you who have the opportunity to discuss ongoing projects with the panelists, you will also get advice tailored to your specific projects. 

Panelists 

  • Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business 
  • Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and Washington State University, Carson College of Business 
  • Dan Wadhwani, USC, Marshall School of Business 
  • JoAnne Yates, MIT, Sloan School of Management 

Organizers: Rohin Borpujari, London Business School & Chelsea Lei, Boston College 

Structure 

1. Panel Talk and Group Q&A: For the first part of the PDW, our panelists will lead exchanges around topics such as which research questions are best suited to historical case studies; how to balance the needs for contextualization vs. generalization in theorizing; how to write up a historical case study for publication in management journals, etc. 

2. Roundtables and Individual Feedback: Pre-selected participants will have the opportunity to engage in quick, entrepreneur-style “pitches” to the experts (separated into 4 different roundtables), with a view to receiving developmental feedback specific to their projects. 

Each participant will have 20 minutes in total – 10 minutes to describe their project (or project idea) and what areas they would like feedback on, and 10 minutes to receive feedback / engage in discussion with the expert. 

How to Apply 

Part 1 is open to all attendees and does not require any application in advance. 

For Part 2, in order to ensure quality interactions with panelists, we are limiting the number of “pitches” to 16 (i.e. 4 per panelist). If you are interested in receiving feedback on a project that you are currently working on, please submit your interest to the organizers at rborpujari@london.edu, by 11:59 pm Eastern Time (Boston time) on July 17, 2023. 

Specifically, please submit an abstract or overview of your project, including two questions that you would like to ask the panelists to receive feedback about that project. Please keep this document limited to 1 page, single-spaced, in PDF format. 

In addition, in your email, please rank order your preference for which panelist roundtable you would like to be a part of (with the number “1” referring to your first choice panelist and “4” referring to your fourth choice panelist). 

Note: In addition to the 1-page abstract, you may, if you wish, submit a theoretical model or diagram that you are working on in case your project is at a more advanced stage and you would like comments on the model you are building. 

If you have any questions about the PDW or the application process, please feel free to reach out at either rborpujari@london.edu or leicd@bc.edu. 

BAC Bursary for Business History Research

Steph

One of the key purposes of the Business Archives Council is to encourage interest in and study of business history and archives, with a remit covering England and Wales. This bursary – made possible by the generosity of Sir Peter Thompson, former Chairman of the National Freight Corporation, and the Wellcome Foundation – provides financial support for researchers to access business and organisational archives who would not otherwise able to do so.

We will prioritise applications focused on the use of business and organisational archives. Research on business-related collections held in the National Archives or in county record offices will not normally be considered, but we may support projects that involve some work in public archives or that are particularly creative or innovative in their approach to business history. 

We welcome applications from researchers of all kinds who are unable to fund their costs, particularly those who don’t have permanent contracts of employment. Our aim in awarding the bursary is to foster diversity and inclusion in access to business archives.

Our annual bursary fund is approximately £1000 and we may make one or more awards up to this total amount. The size of the pot makes it most suitable for smaller-scale projects, such as scoping or pilot studies, early-stage development of collaborations and exploratory work. We are open, however, to any proposal focused on business archives that meets the eligibility guidelines, regardless of the form and purpose.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the BAC Research Support Bursary, researchers should:

  • Be able to name one or more business or organisational archives based in England and Wales that they intend to use within a 200-word project outline, as well as any outputs they hope to produce
  • Be willing to contribute two short articles for the BAC newsletter or website about their research
  • Commit to acknowledging the BAC and the specific archives used in any outputs arising from their research, such as talks, papers, blogs and articles
  • Confirm that they don’t have access to alternative funding sources to support their project

Benefits

We are keen to give our award-holders opportunities to share their research. We will therefore offer all successful applicants the following, without obligation:

  • Free attendance (when charged) for successful applicants at the BAC annual conference the year after receipt of the bursary
  • An invitation to give a short, informal talk about their research at the BAC awards event the year after receipt of the bursary
  • A fee waiver to attend the annual Association of Business Historians conference in the year of or the year after your award. Support for travel may also be available. Award holders are encouraged to submit a proposal for the conference or to join a panel proposal for award holders.

How to apply

Please complete this simple application on GoogleForms by midday on 29 September 2023. Applications will be reviewed by a panel consisting of Dr Alix Green (BAC Trustee, University of Essex), Prof John Wilson (Newcastle Business School) and Prof Lucy Newton (Henley Business School). The successful applicant/s will be informed by 13 October and a formal announcement will be made at the BAC’s annual awards event towards the end of 2023. If you have any questions, please contact Alix Green: alix.green@essex.ac.uk

Find out more about past winners.

Hagley History Hangout: Kerosene and consumer protests

Steph

How does a movement unite the disparate interests of producer and consumers? By directing their shared ire against a powerful middleman. That is how opponents of the Standard Oil monopoly on kerosene refining and distribution joined forces to take on the corporate giant. In his dissertation project, Minseok Jang, PhD candidate at the University of Albany, explores the materiality of kerosene and its impacts on people at every link in the commodity chain, from oil fields through refineries and pipelines to the homes and businesses of end-users. Jang argues that the unique qualities contemporaries perceived in kerosene created both opportunities and risks. When Standard Oil attempted to monopolize the opportunities while externalizing the risks, the firm goaded an array of people into united anti-monopolist action. 

In support of his work, Jang received an exploratory grant from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library.

The audio only version of this program is available on our podcast. The link to this Hagley History Hangout is https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-minseok-jang

Recorded on Zoom and available anywhere once they are released, our History Hangouts include interviews with authors of books and other researchers who have use of our collections, and members of Hagley staff with their special knowledge of what we have in our stacks. We began the History Hangouts earlier this summer and now are releasing programs every two weeks on alternate Mondays. Our series is part of the Hagley from Home initiative by the Hagley Museum and Library. The schedule for upcoming episodes, as well as those already released, is available at  https://www.hagley.org/hagley-history-hangout. 

Annual Meeting Scholarships for Management History Early Career Scholars

Steph

We invite early career scholars to apply for annual meeting registration scholarships. 

The following criteria must be met for eligibility:

  • A current member of AOM and the Management History Division.
  • A paper accepted for presentation, or a panelist on a PDW or symposium, in the Management History Division at this year’s annual meeting.
  • Have graduated from a doctoral program within the past five years.

Additional criteria on which decisions will be made include:

  • Geographic distance from Boston
  • Additional funding available from your university or research grants

Please apply via email to Trish McLaren, MH Division Chair (pmclaren@wlu.ca) by Monday, June 26th, 2023. In your application include information/evidence as to the five criteria identified above.

Hagley Grants & Fellowships

Steph

The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded in April 2023.  Please note that the next deadline for applications for the exploratory and Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship is June 30th. The H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowship deadline is November 15th.  Here is the link on Hagley Museum and Library’s website for further info and to apply…. https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships. 

Exploratory Grant

Nicolas Allen

Ph.D. Candidate

SUNY at Stony Brook

A Voz do dono:  RCA-Victor in Brazil

Roland Betancourt

Professor

University of California, Irvine

A Plurality of Means:  Disneyland and the Aesthetics of Automation

Sam Bisco

AB Candidate

Princeton University

Evolution of the Cotton Gin Production

Espen Brandt

Masters

University of Oslo

International Trade Organization

Stephen Case

Professor

Olivet Nazarene University

Icons of the Idyllic:  Windpumps and the American Pastoral Ideal

Leo Garofalo

Associate Professor

Connecticut College

Afro-Andeans in a Black Pacific:  Afro-Pervian Sailors, Smugglers, & Shipbuiders in Spanish America & Transpacific

Katlin Harris

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sounding Industrial Empires:  Welfare Capitalism, Sponsored Bands, and the Construction of Company

Stefka Hristova

Associate Professor

Michigan Technological University

Negating Visions:  Cultural Memory and Media Negatives

Rebecca Janzen

Associate Professor

University of South Carolina

Mining Religion Sites and Extractive Industries Across the Americas

Liz Kambas

Ph.D. Candidate

Indiana University

A Tale of Two Families:  The Lavoisiers, the du Ponts, and the Arsenal Laboratory

William Krause

Ph.D. Candidate

Vanderbilt University

Scientific Genius:  A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Idea in Modern America, 1880-1990

Elizabeth McCague

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Maryland, College Park

Equestrian Culture and Labor during the du Pont era at James Madison’s Montpelier

Christopher Miller

Lecturer

The University of Glasgow

Independent Inventors to International Industries–The Birth and Development of the Modern Private Armaments Sector, 1860-1914

Fabienne Müller

Doctoral Researcher

University of Bremen

Neoliberal Idealogy in Trade Policy and Social Policy:  The Examples of NAFTA and Health Care Reform in the 1990s

Frances O’Shaughnessy

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Washington

Black Revolution on the Sea Islands:  Empire, Property, and the Emancipation of Humanity

Lauren Owens

Ph.D. Candidate

Florida State University

Managing Fertility and Reproductive Health in Eighteenth-Century France

Fabian Prieto-Ñañez

Assistant Professor

Virginia Tech

Infrastructures for Open Skies:  The Impact of US Domestic Satellites on Media Distribution in the Americas in the 1980s

Amy Sopcak-Joseph

Assistant Professor

Wilkes University

Fashioning American Women:  Godey’s Lady’s Book, Consumers, and Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century

H. B. du Pont Fellowship

Peter Kovacs

Independent Scholar

Big Tobacco and American Broadcasting, 1923-1971

Jayita Sarkar

Senior Lecturer

University of Glasgow

Atomic Capitalism:  A Global History

Sydney Watts

Associate Professor

University of Richmond

The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey:  Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815

Che Yeun

Ph.D. Candidate

Harvard University

Technologies of Cleanliness and Modern American Bodies, 1890-1970

Hagley Exploratory Research Grants

These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than 50 miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31

Henry Belin du Pont Fellowships

These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are pro-rated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than 50 miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within 50 miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31

Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowships

This fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on their dissertation. Applications should demonstrate superior intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology for the project, and show that there are significant research materials at Hagley pertinent to the dissertation. This is a residential fellowship with a term of four months. The fellowship provides $6,500, free housing on Hagley’s grounds, mail and internet access, and an office. Application deadline: November 15

AOM PDW on Microhistory

Steph

CALL FOR PDW PARTICIPANTS & SUBMISSIONS

Microhistory for Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Research

Professional Development Workshop

2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Friday, August 4th, 2023.  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E

We are excited to announce a Professional Development Workshop focused on microhistory at the Academy of Management Meeting co-sponsored by multiple divisions, including STR, ENT, MH, OMT, RM, and TIM.  This PDW brings together historians with leading history-engaged scholars in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to explore the application of microhistory to management research.  The goals of the PDW are to develop awareness and understanding of microhistory as a research method and guide researchers in designing microhistorical studies.

The Microhistory PDW consists of three components:

  1. Microhistory Overview for Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.  Andrew Hargadon and Daniel Wadhwani will lead Section A.  The overview will give participants a working understanding of microhistory and its role in developing management-relevant theory.  The overview will focus on (a) the distinct explanatory character of the microhistory approach, (b) its relationship to other types of historical knowledge production, and (c) opportunities and means for using microhistory to advance research in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
  • Microhistory in Conversation with History-Engaged Researchers.  Leading, history-engaged scholars Rajshree Agarwal, Lamar Pierce, and Mary Tripsas will draw connections between their work and the formalized concept of microhistory.  They will explore how historical methods, and microhistory specifically, can address existing questions in the discipline in new ways and how such approaches can develop new research agendas.  This session will conclude with a Q&A including all scholars and PDW participants.
  • Interactive Roundtable Sessions.  Three working groups will be convened, each pairing a historian (Hargadon, Kirsch, and Wadhwani) and a “history-engaged” scholar (Agarwal, Pierce, Tripsas) to focus on accepted projects with the intent of working with the author teams to explore how the microhistorical approach is relevant to the project, how it might apply to it, the contribution of the work, and handling expected comments from reviewers less familiar with microhistory.  To be included in the roundtable sessions, participants must submit a document including a project summary and details about the team (See Apply Now below for submission guidelines).

The Microhistory Overview, Conversation on Microhistory Panel, and Q&A are open to all AOM 2023 attendees.  The Interactive roundtable sessions are limited to those that have submitted an accepted project.

Date/Time/Format

  • Friday, August 4th, 2023.  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
  • Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E

Speakers:

  • Rajshree Agarwal, University of Maryland
  • Andrew Hargadon, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
  • David Kirsch, University of Maryland
  • Lamar Pierce, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School
  • Mary Tripsas, UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering
  • R. Daniel Wadhwani, USC Marshall School of Business

Apply Now

Applications to participate in the Interactive Session Roundtables are now open.

Please submit a document including the following elements:

            –           Paper title

            –           Submitter’s name and current status (e.g., doctoral student, faculty, etc.)

            –           Full author team;

            –           Paper or paper summary.

Please submit here:  https://bit.ly/microhistorypdw

The deadline to apply is June 23rd, 2023.

We have limited spots available, so we encourage you to apply early.

We look forward to seeing you!

Jay Habegger (habegger@umd.edu) & David Kirsch (dkirsch@umd.edu)

Organizers

Microhistory for Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

Professional Development Workshop

2023 Academy of Management Meeting

Job Advert: Assistant Professor

Steph

Assistant Professor in Strategy and International Business (Research and Education) – Grade 8 – Birmingham Business School – 38210

United Kingdom

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Details

College of Social Sciences, Birmingham Business School

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £44,414 to £52,841 with potential progression once in post to £59,450

Grade 8

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 25th June 2023

 

Academic Development Programme – new Assistant Professors will undertake a 5-year development programme, at the end of which they are expected to be promoted to Associate Professor. The programme consists of a variety of development opportunities and the time to reflect and develop.

Background

Birmingham Business School at the University of Birmingham is a world-leading institution and global thought leader in responsible business. Our vision is to inspire curiosity within our students and drive positive change within all fields of business, locally and globally.  We are committed to producing forward-thinking leaders. We hold triple-crown accreditation with EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. We have recently been recognised in the REF, FT Responsible Business Education Awards and QS MBA Rankings for our research and teaching excellence.

As a result of our recent success and expansion in some of our programmes, we are seeking to appoint one full-time assistant professor. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the whole range of research, teaching and administration within the business school.

The Department of Strategy and International Business is well-respected and a prominent player in the international business and global strategy field nationally and internationally. Its members produce high-calibre research in several areas including Organisations and Sustainable Development in the World Economy, Innovation and Collaboration in Global Value Chains and Multinational Strategies, SMEs and International Entrepreneurship, and Living in a World of Global Organizations. Applicants should have a clearly defined research agenda and have the potential to publish innovative, rigorous, and relevant contributions in top peer-reviewed journals. 

The department’s teaching portfolio is mainly international, covering both undergraduate and postgraduate offerings in Edgbaston, Singapore and Dubai. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of our portfolio across the department on our Business Management undergraduate suite and our postgraduate taught programmes. Successful applicant will also undertake leadership and service activities in line with the Department, School and College’s strategic objectives.

Role Summary

  • You will contribute to a range of research, teaching and administration.  In addition you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students, and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others can carry out theirs. 
  • Teaching is likely to include a substantial contribution to: (a) the management, development (including programme/module review) and delivery of teaching and assessment; and (b) enhancement of the student experience or employability.  The role will typically also involve developing and advising others, including: (a) providing expert advice to staff and students, (b) supervising and examining PhD students, and (c) developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks and methods
  • Research is likely to involve initiating, conducting and disseminating original research.   Your research will have measurable outcomes reflect in your growing national (and ideally international) reputation. 
  • Management and administration is likely to involve contributions at Departmental and School level, and/or making an important contribution to some managerial/leadership activities (e.g. working groups) within the University.  This may include developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement, widening participation, schools outreach, or similar activities at Department/School level or further within the University.

Main Duties

Education

Using a variety of methods in teaching and advising individuals and groups of undergraduates, postgraduates, or CPD students, including (as appropriate): 

  • Teaching and examining courses at a range of levels; 
  • Planning and reviewing your own teaching approaches and encouraging others to do the same; 
  • Designing contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging curriculum content; 
  • Working collaboratively with colleagues to design and deliver teaching, learning and assessment; 
  • Using digital resources/environments effectively to support learning and assessment; 
  • Developing programme proposals and making substantial contributions to the design of teaching programmes more widely; 
  • Where appropriate, undertaking and developing the full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining; 
  • Developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks and methods; 
  • Developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement,  public engagement activities or similar on own specialism that enhances the student experience or employability and which benefits the College and University; 
  • Devising and supervising projects, student dissertations and practical work.

Research

Planning and carrying out research, including (as appropriate): 

  • Planning and publishing high quality research, including winning financial support; 
  • Project managing research activities, and/or supervising other research staff; 
  • Presenting findings in publications and conference proceedings; 
  • Effectively supervising and mentoring PhD students or early Career Researchers; 
  • Providing expert advice to staff and students within the discipline; 
  • Participating in research-related enabling activities such as adding value to a cross disciplinary network; 
  • Applying knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding; 
  • Developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, and enterprise (including business engagement, public engagement) and similar activity that is of benefit to the College and the University, including ensuring that the impact of your activities is realized fully and the impact is documented. 

Management/Administration

Contributing to Departmental/School administration, including: 

  • Contributing to the administration/management of research and/or teaching across the Department/School; 
  • Leading and managing a team to devise and implement a new and/or revised process (e.g. new programme or a recruitment drive); 
  • Advising on personal development of colleagues and students; 
  • Making a major contribution to some administrative activities within the University (e.g. appeals panels, working groups); 
  • Managing enterprise, business development, and public engagement activities; 
  • Developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement, widening participation, schools outreach. 
  • Actively manages equality, diversity and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation and actively challenging unacceptable behavior. 

Citizenship

 Contributing to an inclusive working environment: 

  • Demonstrating a willingness to be involved in a variety of activities supporting University life (e.g., participation in graduation, Departmental/School committees); 
  • Demonstrating support for colleagues, such as sharing resources, providing advice; 
  • Willingness to volunteer for one-off duties (such as supporting School, Institute, and Departmental projects); 
  • Positively engaging in School strategic initiatives; 
  • Proactive support and involvement in activities specifically contributing to a positive and inclusive community spirit across the School/College/University.

Person Specification

  • Normally, a higher degree relevant to the research/teaching area (usually PhD) or equivalent qualifications 
  • Extensive research/teaching experience and scholarship within subject specialism 
  • Proven ability to devise, advise on and manage learning/research 
  • Skills in managing, motivating and mentoring others successfully at all levels 

Teaching

  • Ability to design, deliver, assess and revise teaching programmes 
  • Extensive experience and demonstrated success in developing appropriate approaches to learning and teaching, and advising colleagues  
  • Experience and success in knowledge transfer, enterprise and similar activity that enhances the student experience or employability 

Research

  • Experience and achievement reflected in a growing reputation
  •  Extensive experience and demonstrated success in planning, undertaking and project managing research to deliver high quality results 
  • Extensive experience of applying and/or developing and devising successful models, techniques and methods 
  • Experience and achievement in knowledge transfer, enterprise and similar activity 

Management Administration

  • Ability to contribute to School/Departmental management processes 
  • Ability to assess and organize resources effectively 
  • Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes 
  • Experience of championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in own work area 
  • Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies, procedures are applied  
  • Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action

Informal enquiries can be made to the Head of the Department of Strategy and International Business, Dr Linda Hsieh; h.hsieh@bham.ac.uk

OAP Workshop online sessions

Steph

Interested in joining us online for the 13th OAP workshop on history, historicity and historical process in Management and Organization Studies (MOS)? While there are no more places for in-person attendance for the workshop jointly organized by ESADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and ESSEC on 8th and 9th June in Barcelona, you can join us online for the hybrid events! Register on EventBrite for free: Remote access to OAP 2023 Historicity & OS Tickets| Eventbrite. The fantastic Keynotes by Profs Bill Foster and Paloma Fernandez Perez will be online!

Online sessions:

8 June

3 PM-4.15 PM CET (Hybrid mode)

Keynote lecture 1 by William Foster (University of Alberta) “Organizational Memory Work: The promise of the past”

9 June

11.30-12.30 CET

LIVE STREAMING YOUTUBE – Panel 1 – History in the making: historicizing memory with and for MOS. With Stéphanie Decker (Birmingham University), Laura Lucia Parolin (University of Southern Denmark) and Pierre Labardin (Université de la Rochelle). Animation: Daniel Arenas (ESADE) 

17.00-18.00 CET

STREAMING YOUTUBE – Keynote lecture 3 by Paloma Fernandez Perez (UB)  “Hybrid actors and networks and the history of global scientific and technological businesses.”

BRIDGE research grant for “Historical Perspectives on De-globalization and Geopolitics”

Steph

Profs Stephanie Decker (BBS) and Marcelo Bucheli (UIUC) were awarded a BRIDGE seedcorn funding for their research project on “De-globalization and geopolitics – the impact of economic nationalism and economic security on business diplomacy, and corporate political activity” (DeGEO). The geopolitical environment of international business has significantly changed n response to increased nationalism globally. Yet the current trend for de-globalization should be seen in the context of varying appetites for international integration across the 20th century. The joint University of Birmingham – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BRIDGE project will study the political and diplomatic strategies developed by multinational corporations in times of deglobalization.  In the present times, hostility to globalization and renewed calls for protectionism have created a challenging political environment for multinational corporations.  How multinationals have adapted to deglobalization and nationalism in the past can provide insights into current deglobalization trends. The project builds on previous collaboration by the investigators and will focus on developing high-quality publications and a publicly accessible short-form book on the history of multinationals.

The “Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education” (BRIDGE) was signed in March 2014 by the University of Birmingham’s Vice-Chancellor and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Chancellor at the University of Illinois. The BRIDGE agreement establishes a framework for creative knowledge exchange across disciplines through frequent, purposeful, face-to-face meetings between faculty, staff and students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. What makes the BRIDGE partnership so distinctive is that it is genuinely multi-disciplinary, with over 70 cross-faculty links spanning Biosciences, Economic and Physical Geography, Psychology, Neuroscience, Environmental Genomics, Railway Engineering, Maths, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, American & Canadian Studies, Classics, History of Art, African Studies, Cultural Heritage and Education.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Birmingham jointly established the BRIDGE Seed Fund of $200,000 to stimulate wider academic engagement between the two universities. The BRIDGE framework aims to deepen these existing collaborations and develop wider faculty networks to: build cognate research areas; expand educational exchange opportunities; and strengthen strategic aspirations for institutional engagement.