Symposium: ‘Radical Business? Business and the Contest over Social Norms’ (Centre for the Study of the Book/Global History of Capitalism Project)
This one-day symposium at the Weston Library brings together an interdisciplinary group of speakers to offer insights into how business has acted as a radical force to upset and replace social norms over time. Whether seeking to normalize new products and services, such as autonomous vehicles, or reacting to environmental or safety concerns, business is engaged in a constant negotiation with larger cultural codes. Speakers will discuss the consequences of this contest over social norms, including ethical as well as strategic implications. By bringing together researchers from across disciplines, the symposium will also explore common conceptual ground to understand the significance of this problem for the history of capitalism and management.

All are welcome to attend, but please RSVP.

David Smith is Associate Professor, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, and is the Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries during Trinity Term 2019.

Rowena Olegario is a Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, and Co-Director of the Global History of Capitalism project (Oxford Centre for Global History).

Presented in association with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book in association with the Global History of Capitalism project.

For further details and programme see www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/events/radical-business
Date: 28 June 2019, 8:45 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organisers: Rowena Olegario, David Chan Smith
Organiser contact email address: bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: janet.walwyn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Laura Spence