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Symposium 3: Rising from the Ashes? Visions and Delusions (of and about the future): Leading, Managing, Acting, and Organising in uncertain and challenging times

Our third symposium in this programme, Visions and Delusions, is future-facing and picks up from the past two symposia, Leading and Misleading and Organising and Disorganising. We question how, in order to recover and move on from the manifold global crisis of our time, management and leadership thought and practices can be renewed and strengthened through the (re)application of established and new ways of thinking, organising, acting and practising which can equip all types of organisational actors in dealing with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, working towards human and non-human flourishing.

Event 1 Wednesday 3^rd May 9.30 am – 11.30 am

Cut in Conversation with... Profs. Paul Adler, Chris Nyland, Lucy Taksa and guests discussing: Rising to challenging and uncertain futures: Can Marxist ideas inform Western management thinking?"

In the two previous seminars in this series, Paul presented some ideas on where Marxist ideas can help management theory. In this seminar, he will reflect on his efforts to introduce Marxist ideas in his publications in management journals and on efforts to create space for Marxist-inspired scholars in two of the field's professional associations -  the Academy of Management and EGOS. Chris will discuss why the outcomes of past efforts to introduce Marxist ideas into management studies may not be repeated in the future. Lucy's original training as an historian has influenced her approach to management research. In this seminar she will reflect on the value of two great Marxist thinkers. First, Gramsci's understandings of Scientific Management, and its value for analysing its impact on management education. Second, the value of Henri Lefebvre's work for scholarship on work, management and the environment. She will highlight how his recognition that the dialectic is spatial as well as temporal and that dialectical moments are expressed as 'triplicite', can enhance understanding of the fluidity of social process and social relations in time and place.

To register for free please use the following link: CUT in conversation...May 3, 2023 09h30 -11h30 (french time) (office.com)

Speaker Bios

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He holds the Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy, and serves as the President of the USC Academic Senate. He moved from Australia to France in 1974, where he received his doctorate in Economics and Management while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, he has been affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Barnard College at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. He served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and of the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and served as President of the Academy of Management in 2013-14.

Chris Nyland is Professor in the Department of Management at Monash University, Australia. His teaching areas include international business regulation, diplomacy and statecraft and the management of market economies. His research spans a number of areas. He has a long term interest in the history and evolution of business and economic ideas. Key areas that he has researched in this regard include the evolution of management thought and practice in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and how classical political economist have explained the respective status of the sexes. A second research area is globalisation and education. Here he has studied the evolution and regulation of international education markets and the efforts of China's government to develop a workforce that is suited to a knowledge intensive economy.

Lucy Taksa is Professor of Management with the Department of Management, Deakin University Business School, Victoria, Australia and Honorary Professor, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong in New South Wales (NSW). Lucy's research and publications are on the past, present and future of work, working people, work organisation, workplace health; management strategies and employment practises; gender, cultural and age diversity; equity, diversity and cross-cultural management; representations of women leaders, inclusive leadership and gendered work cultures; migrant employment and entrepreneurship; and social and industrial history and heritage. She is Editor-in-Chief (with Prof. Amanda Pyman), of the Journal of Industrial Relations, is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Centre on Global Migration at Gothenburg University in Sweden and was an Associate of the Chaire Diversite et Management, Paris-Dauphine University

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