Previous Events "Cambridge Business & Society Research Group"
Easter Term 2007-2008
Thursdays 5:00-6:30 p.m. Venue: Meeting Room, Graduate Union
May 1
• Peter Edward (Management): Logics of transformation
May 15
• Juliane Reinecke (Management): From "fair trade" to Fairtrade: Negotiating a Multi-World Justice
• Maarten Van der Kamp (Management, Lancaster University): Constructing responsibility: some thoughts on a cereal bar
May 29
• Jim Tanburn (Coordinator, Donor Committee for Enterprise Development): Can donors achieve their aims by stimulating the development of value chains? A review of the current debate
• Eve Poole (Theology): Issues in Theology and Capitalism
June 12
• Ioanna Boulouta (Management): CSR and Value creation: empirical work with complex and dynamic concepts
• Andrew Francis (English): Recovering the ethics of economic botany in the Asian fiction of Joseph Conrad
Lent Term 2007-2008
Tuesdays 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Jan 22: Consumption and Well-being, Venue: Judge Business School, Room W.2.02
• Mishko Hansen (Management): Rethinking Consumption
Feb 5: Regulations and Institutions, Venue: Seminar Room, SPS Building, New Museum Site.
• Tugce Bulut (Social & Political Sciences):Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards
• Juliane Reinecke (Management): Standard Setting for the "Certification Revolution"
Feb 19: Is Development Sustainable?, Venue: Institute for Manufacturing, Seminar Room A
• Peter Edward (Management):Sustainable Development: going beyond oxymorons
• Tatiana Thieme (Geography): Wage migration, Remittances, and Livelihoods: A Case Study Overview of the Filipino Context
Mar 4;: Conflict and Tension: Venue: Law Faculty, Room G11
• Yseult Marique (Law): Negotiating tensions in PPPs: solution or dissolution?
Michaelmas Term 2007
Tue, October 9th: Ethics
• Juliane Reinecke (Management): The Production of Ethics in Contemporary Capitalism: Ethical labeling
• Mishko Hansen (Management): Business Ethics -- Is There Such A Thing?
Tue, October 23rd: Governance and Policy
• Emily Noah (Geography): The Manufacture of New Policy Space: Governance Challenges and Opportunities via Corporate Social Responsibility
• Mishko Hansen (Management): Governance, Sustainability, and The Discourse of Shareholder Value
Tue, 6 Nov: Social Change
• Yseult Marique (Law): Social Change and the Change of Social Paradigms: Some Questions Arising from Public-Private Partnerships
• Peter Edward (Management): Social Change: Just How Personal do we Need to Get?
Tue, 20 Nov: Methods and Metrics
• Emily Noah (Geography): Measuring Utopia? Metrics and Methods in Environmental Certification (Eco-Labelling)
• Tatiana Thieme (Geography): Social capital in development: How is business reconfigurating its engagement with poverty through 'measures' of sustainable livelihoods?
