1257: Researching Wrongdoing and Irresponsibility Using Historical and Retrospective Approaches (10478)

Organizer(s)

• AN

  Adam Nix

  Birmingham Business School, U. of Birmingham, UK, United Kingdom

Discussant(s)

• ND

  Nicholous Deal

  Mount Saint Vincent U., Canada

Presenter(s)

• AS

  Andrew Smith

  Birmingham Business School, U. of Birmingham, UK, United Kingdom

Participant(s)

• EB

  Emily Buchnea

  Newcastle Business School, Northumbria U.
• NW

  Nicholas Wong

  Newcastle Business School, Northumbria U., United Kingdom
• IJ

  Ian Jones

  U. of York, UK

Presenter(s)

• HF

  Hamid Foroughi

  Warwick Business School, United Kingdom

Participant(s)

• RM

  Rajiv Maher

  EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey, United Kingdom

Presenter(s)

• ES

  Ellen Shaffner

  Mount Saint Vincent U., Canada

This presenter symposium provides a space for scholars from different areas of the Academy to come together to explore the potential gaps, linkages, and overlaps that exist at the intersection of research on organizational wrongdoing and irresponsibility and a methodological or conceptual engagement with the past. Specifically, we draw on a range of divisional experiences and approaches to explore (i) how organizations account for and manage their problematic past and (ii) the role memories and memory work play in historical and ongoing cases of wrongdoing. In doing so, the symposium will highlight the particular affordances and challenges that the past represents for understanding and tackling wrongdoing and irresponsibility. Three presentations will demonstrate specific historical and retrospective approaches, showing their potential value to organizational wrongdoing and irresponsibility research. Finally, we provide a space for dialogue on future directions and opportunities that stem from the intersection of these themes.

Presentations:

• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1257: Working Between Two Scaffolds: The Memory of Corporate Irresponsibility in an MNE (10478)
  

  Author: Andrew D A Smith – Birmingham Business School, U. of Birmingham, UK

  Author: Emily Buchnea – Newcastle Business School, Northumbria U.

  Author: Nicholas Wong – Newcastle Business School, Northumbria U.

  Author: Ian Jones – U. of York, UK
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1257: Corporate Historical Integrity: The Financial Industry and Slavery (WITHDRAWN) (10478)
  

  Author: Sarah Federman – U. of San Diego
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1257: Memory work following Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Learning from Mariana Dam Break in Brazil (10478)
  

  Author: Hamid Foroughi – Warwick Business School

  Author: Rajiv Maher – EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1257: Forgetting and Remembering the Early Histories of Women in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (10478)
  

  Author: Ellen Shaffner – Mount Saint Vincent U.