Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
Workshop: Corporations in the Knowledge-Based Economy
23-24 January 2006
Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Contact: Stephen Ackroyd and Daniel Muzio
On January 23 & 24 we held a two-day on Corporations in the Knowledge
Based Economy This workshop brought together a mix of talents (both experienced
and youthful) sharing an interest in this topic. Some of the leading scholars
in the UK on this topic plus one from France (Profs Littler, Parker, Grahame
and Paul Thompson and Jean Francois Chanlat) were present. Also as participants
there were international visitors to Lancaster / IAS and some established
Lancaster staff. In addition there were a good number of younger scholars
from Lancaster and elsewhere. It was particularly valuable to have been
able to draw into our discussions some of the able of a younger generation
of scholars. The result was a series of insightful and penetrating discussions,
ranging over the related topics in the workshop programme.
The aim of the workshop was to break new ground. In view of this the injunction to speakers and to keep their comments general was wise. Even so, a few felt it necessary to present their recent research in too much detail. As old hands in this field know, this is a vast topic area but there is much that we do not know. Many of the participants focussed their remarks on change in the large corporation for example; and it was amply revealed that often what we were supposedly changing from had not been well established by existing work. The workshop showed for example that what contributions the availability of IT has made to the restructuring of the corporation is not well established. There is clearly a need for fundamental research in some areas. In other areas - such as corporate social responsibility and corporate policy - there clearly was development in knowledge and understanding. It was found particularly valuable to have brought together scholars with very different perspectives on CSR.
Programme:
- Grahame Thompson (Open University) - Leadership and Managerialism
- Tony Burch (Deakin University) - Control of Knowledge in the Knowledge-Based Economy
- Sanjiv Sachdev (Kingston University) - Public / Private Tensions and Cooperation
- Martin Parker (Leicester University) - Radical Possibilities of Corporate Social Responsibility?
- Gerry Hanlon & Theodora Assimakou (QM, London and University of Leicester) - The Possibilities and Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Judy Nagy (Deakin University) - Retreat of Government and CSR
- Jason Ferdinand (Liverpool University) & David Simm (Lancaster University) - Corporate Espionage
- Glenn Morgan (Warwick University) - Law Firms and the Global Economy
- Mohan Thite (Griffith University) - India's Surge to Knowledge Super Power
- James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) - Globalisation of Executive Search Industry
- Craig Littler (University of St Andrews) - Financialization and Corporate Repositioning
- Paul Thompson (Strathclyde University) and Stephen Ackroyd (Lancaster) - A Perspective on Corporate Restructuring
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