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Dear All,

Please join us online on Monday, 28 November, at 4pm GMT, for the final R:ETRO seminar of this term, hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Daniel Arenas (ESADE Business School) will be giving a paper entitled "Experts, Deliberation, and 'An Enemy of the People'".

Abstract:

In this seminar, I propose to examine the role of experts in deliberation in intra and interorganizational settings. Deliberation has long been discussed by organizational scholars both as goal and as a reality within the organization, and between the organization and its stakeholders. Experts are needed to improve the epistemic quality of the deliberation; but it might clash with the principle of equality of participation characteristic of deliberative views. As a result, experts and organizations become entangled in different types of difficulties. To unpack this problem, first, I will examine how deliberative democracy theorists have understood deliberation and how they have considered the role of experts. Second, I will defend the use of narrative fiction to draw insights into organizational and interorganizational questions. Third, I will analyze Ibsen's play "An Enemy of the People" to show the difficulties experts incur with and to argue that a complete understanding about the role of experts in deliberation needs to take into account emotions and contestation. Finally, I will discuss implications for organizations and organization studies.

Click here to register.

I hope to see many of you there!

All the best,
Rita

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Rita Mota
Assistant Professor
ESADE Business School
Barcelona
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