The Research Center for Capitalism, Globalization and Governance invites you to a Seminar

Bobby Banerjee
Bobby Banerjee is Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of South Australia. He has published broadly and is a key contributor of the tradition of critical studies in Management. He is the author, for example, of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011, 4.30 p.m.
ESSEC, Cergy (room Le Club)

Professor Bobby Banerjee will discuss the following paper:

“Philosophical Reflections on the Governance of Corporate Social Responsibility”

Abstract: In this paper I explore the philosophical and theoretical ideas about the political role of corporations. I argue that contemporary discourses on political CSR with its focus on deliberative democracy do not take into account structural and discursive power relations between and within different regions of the world. I describe the emergence of resource wars in the postcolonial era and how organizational technologies of extraction, exclusion and expulsion lead to dispossession and death in many parts of the Third World. I conclude by discussing possibilities of resistance and develop the notion of translocal resistance where local actors most affected by development are able to forge a series of temporary coalitions with international and national groups in an attempt to promote some form of participatory democracy.

If you have not done so yet, please reply to blancs@essec.fr ASAP to confirm attendance.