Globally responsible research is gaining critical attentions for both scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines. What are the paradoxes, challenges, and opportunities in conducting globally responsible research? How can multiple stakeholders address the polarizing demands of value creation, inclusion, and sustainability, in timely and timeless ways?
This webinar will take a critical view on globally responsible research by discussing research topics, methodologies, and assessments to be adopted by scholars and administrators in higher education. The webinar takes a historical and broad view on globally responsible research and will offer insights for scholars, educators, and other stakeholders.
Takeaways:
- Addressing the rising importance of globally responsible research.
- Discussing paradoxes involving conducting and assessing globally responsible research.
- Exploring solutions for resolving the paradoxes for multiple stakeholders.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
11:00 – 12:00 PM EST
Speakers:
Professor Jerry Davis
University of Michigan
Jerry Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. His research is broadly concerned with the corporation as a social and economic vehicle and how new technologies can enable more humane forms of economic organization. His most recent book is Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century.
His other books include Social Movements and Organization Theory (with Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald; Cambridge University Press, 2005), Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives (with W. Richard Scott; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), Managed By the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America (Oxford University Press, 2009), Changing your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs (with Chris White, Harvard Business Review Press, 2015), and The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy (Berrett-Koehler, 2016). Davis has published widely in management, sociology, and finance.
Recent writings examine why corporations have so little insight into their global supply chains and the moral dilemmas this poses; why the social network of corporate elites has fallen apart; what organizational alternative exist to the shareholder-owned corporation; how national institutions shape corporate structures, and what this means for income inequality; how platform capitalism might be tamed to meet human needs other than profit; how management research might help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals; how new technologies have enabled worker political activism within the corporation; how social scientists can inform public opinion; and how information and communication technologies have enabled entirely new designs for economic organization. His current book project examines corporate power in the 21st century, and how to tame it.
Dean Mary Watson
The New School
Mary R. Watson is Executive Dean of the Schools of Public Engagement. she leads the founding college of The New School which advances educational innovation and action-oriented learning in creative and community-engaged fields. The faculty, students, and staff of the Schools of Public Engagement embody the specific priorities of social, political, and inclusive education in the liberal arts, social sciences, and professional areas. Mary Watson’s work at The New School includes co-leading a university-wide management, leadership, and entrepreneurship initiative, Management at The New School. During her time as Executive Dean, she has integrated university-wide projects and centers into the core academic offerings of the college. This includes advancing The New School’s university-wide Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative and The New School Collaboratory, an initiative on university-community partnerships. She has integrated the college’s Centers and Institutes into the curriculum, most notably the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and its global prize for artists in the social and political space and the Center for New York City Affairs' Institute for Transformative Mentoring. Her vision for the future of higher education appears in the chapter she authored, "Designing the University of the Future: A New Global Agenda for Higher Education,” in The New Global Agenda: Priorities, Practices, and Pathways for the International Community (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
Mary Watson's creative practice and scholarship on the human rights of workers, including the signature course at The New School, “Human Rights and Global Fashion,” reflect her commitment to a more just and equitable world. She has more than two decades of experience in higher education as a faculty member, chair, and dean, as well as broad experience in change leadership consulting for organizations and universities. Watson is a key leader worldwide in university networks advancing change in higher education, including the Critical Edge Alliance, the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, and the Ashoka Changemaker campus initiative.
Moderator
Leigh Anne Liu
Georgia State University
Leigh Anne Liu is Professor and Director of the Institute of International Business (IIB), Georgia State University. She studies how culture and cognition influence intercultural interactions, including negotiation, conflict management, and collaborations at individual, organization, and country levels. Her research appears in Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, among other outlets. Her research teams have received grants from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Department of Education, Department of Defense, the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the European Commission. She has been a visiting professor at University of South Australia, Hanken School