Centre for Research into Sustainability: research seminar

Speaker: Dr Scott Taylor, University of Birmingham

Venue: International Building, Room 045

Abstract

For as long as management and organization studies (MOS) has existed as a research and educational field, feminism has offered challenges and opportunities to its development. Unfortunately, the many varieties of feminist theory and practice have, at best, occupied a marginal position, especially in our everyday practice and in the debates that unfold in places we socially construct as prestigious (e.g. highly regarded or ranked journals). This short presentation asks a series of questions as to how this happened, why it is being maintained, and whether there is promise in Corporate Social Responsibility to change it.

The presentation draws on empirical, review, and theoretical work published and in progress with collaborators: Emma Bell, Lauren McCarthy, Susan Merilainen, Owain Smolovic Jones, Laura Spence, Janne Tienari, Emily Yarrow.

Speaker Bio

Scott Taylor is Reader in Leadership & Organization Studies, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Current research focuses on the implementation of gender quotas, think tanks as influential political institutions in framing debate about organizations, feminism in organization & management studies, and the intersection of Critical Management Studies with Corporate Social Responsibility. Scott’s research has been published in a range of journals, such as Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Sociology, Journal of Business Ethics, and Scandinavian Journal of Management, and as contributions to edited books. He is currently Associate Editor at Organization and Section Editor at Journal of Business Ethics, and has contributed to The Conversation.