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Team RSGB at EGOS 2025

Group photo of RSGB colleagues at EGOS 2025

In this article, our colleagues reflect on their experiences at the 41st EGOS - European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, one of the key conferences in the field of organization studies, which took place on July 3–5 in Athens.
 

Nathania Chua and Christof Miska presented their work, “A theory of purpose-driven divergence” in the sub-theme “The Purpose of Business Organizations Revisited and Re-Imagined”. 

With purpose becoming more and more relevant to both business practitioners and academics, there have arisen many opportunities and challenges in critically assessing the role of businesses today. Addressing this, their research looks at the theories that have determined purpose and propose a theory of why companies would diverge from certain expectations.

Presenting their work to such a dedicated group of scholars on purpose reflects steps in not only advancing their research, but developing a strong network of a purpose community in Europe and beyond.

Prof. Miska also presented the paper, “Gendered Power in Times of War: Temporary Inclusion or Lasting Transformation?”, co-authored with Sara Moghaddam Tabar, who is pursuing her doctorate at our Institute.

In addition, as Section Editor, Christof joined the Journal of Business Ethics editor team dinner - a space full of energy and collegiality, where editors exchanged ideas and shared updates on ongoing editorial work. 

Our PhDs engaged in scientific discourse

Nina Peitler presented the status quo of her paper “Governing CSR: The cross-national diversity of public and private authority interactions in shaping CSR”, which will explain how CSR is governed through a blend of public and private authority across different national contexts. 

Nina’s presentation took place at the sub-theme “Organizing the Business and Government Interface in a Shifting Geopolitical and Regulatory Landscape”. The track explored the increasingly complex geopolitical and regulatory environments in which organizations are embedded and featured presentations from renowned researchers. 

Katharina Salomon presented the early stages of her empirical research in the PDW “Research Methods and Strategies for Co-Creating Desirable Futures with Practitioners.” For her, it was a valuable space to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of ethnographic research related to societal impact. She came away with insightful input on how to approach ethnography and was reminded of the importance of staying open and curious in the research process.
 
In line with the topic of her PhD project, she also attended the sub-theme “Insider Social Change Agents: Catalyzing Action on Social and Environmental Challenges.” One of the most striking takeaways for her was the diversity of roles and spaces in which change agents can be found — from librarians to commodity traders and consultants. It expanded her view of where societal transformation can emerge, and the many forms it can take.

Mihaela Stratulat participated in sub-theme “Public and Private Sector Resilience: Creative Action that ‘Goes a Long Way’ through Turbulent Times”. One of the papers in her dissertation will focus on corporate resilience, with a particular interest in how stakeholder collaboration influences it. The conference offered a chance to get acquainted with the academic dialogue in this field.

Among the broader sessions, the sub-plenary “Creating Desirable Futures: Challenges and Prospects for Organizational Scholars” provided thought-provoking reflections on the role of organizational research in shaping future societal directions.

Our team left EGOS inspired and energized by a vibrant scholarly community that fosters idea exchange, diverse perspectives, and staying connected to the latest developments in their field.

SBWL Application: January 30 – February 9, 2025

SBWL enrolment process

From January 30 - February 9, 2025, you can apply for the SBWL Responsibility and Sustainability in Global Business based on a first come, first serve principle.

Follow these steps for a successful application:

  • Enrol in the course 6037 Access to Specialization: Responsibility and Sustainability in Global Business on Canvas

  • Get admitted to the SBWL based on a first come, first serve principle

  • Enrol for Core Course 1 and 2 (deadline will be publicized in the 6037 Access to Specialization course)

More information on all the courses offered by our Institute (Core Course 1&2 and electives) is available on our Instagram channel: @wu_rsgb

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Incorporating Social Responsibility and Sustainability into IHRM Teaching

04/12/2023

In this webinar participants will learn how to incorporate social responsibility and sustainability into the design and delivery of international HRM (IHRM) courses. We will start by clarifying the “what” and the “why” of infusing responsibility and sustainability principles into IHRM curricula: What are we talking about? And why does it matter?

About the Presentation

In this webinar participants will learn how to incorporate social responsibility and sustaina­bility into the design and delivery of international HRM (IHRM) courses. We will start by clarifying the “what” and the “why” of infusing responsibility and sustaina­bility principles into IHRM curricula: What are we talking about? And why does it matter? In this part of the webinar we will discuss how to best conceptualize social responsibility and sustaina­bility in the context of IHRM and look at existing frameworks that can be used to guide students’ learning around what is needed to tackle global sustainability challenges. We will further discuss why is it critical to design IHRM strategies and practices that promote sustainability and social responsibility – and why it is important to educate students, executives and HR leaders about how to best accomplish this. The remaining time will be devoted to the “how”-question: Which pedagogical approaches and learning activities work for different students? What are suitable readings, cases, and exercises? And how to make the learning stick?

Date & Time

  1. December 7 - 8:30am - 9:30am PST (Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco)

  2. December 7 - 11:30am - 12:30pm EST (Toronto, Boston, New York, Miami)

  3. December 7 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm GMT (London)

  4. December 7 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm CET (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)

  5. December 8 - 12:30pm - 1:30am CST (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei)

  6. December 8 - 1:30am - 2:30am JST (Tokyo, Kyoto)

  7. December 8 - 3:30am - 4:30am AEDT (Melbourne, Sydney)

  8. December 7 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm (UTC).

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As an international partnership, the IHRM series welcomes speakers from all over the world and multiple time zones. This session will be recorded to share with registrants who are not able to attend the live session.

The event is free and open to anyone who is interested, but you must register to receive the zoom link to attend. This link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

Register here:

The Speaker

  1. Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management and Director of the Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility at WU Vienna. Prior to joining WU, he served for nine years on the faculty of INSEAD and held visiting appointments at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Busi­ness, the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, the Wharton School of the Univer­sity of Pennsylvania, and Hitotsubashi and Waseda Universities, among others.

  2. Günter's current research interests include grand societal challenges and their implications for international business, the cultural and institutional drivers of corporate responsibility and sustainability, sustainable human resource management, and global mobility and migration. His research has been published in leading academic journals, profiled in a wide range of media outlets including Forbes, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, and been recognized by prestigious awards including the Carolyn Dexter Award of the Academy of Management and the JIBS/ Palgrave Macmillan Decade Award.

  3. Günter is also an accomplished teacher who has won numerous Best Teacher awards and has been involved in consulting and executive teaching for a variety of industrial and professional services companies, as well as for organizations in the non-profit sector. The fourth edition of his co-authored book (with V. Pucik, I. Björkman, and P. Evans), titled “The global challenge: Managing people across borders”, focuses on how to promote sustainability through the effective management of people and culture.

  4. This session will be moderated by Marion Festing, Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership, at ESCP Business School Berlin, Germany.

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About the Series

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online on our YouTube Channel.

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