Hello!
I would like to invite you to the virtual seminar series of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS). Next Friday Feb 6 at 11 am EST we will be hosting Shaz Ansari (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge). He will present joint work with Madeleine Rauch titled "Living with Ongoing Trauma: How Professionals Rework Time to Sustain Agency". The format will include a 20-minute presentation, followed by 10 mins of Q&A and an additional 30 mins of informal discussion with the speaker-a valuable opportunity for PhD students and junior faculty to connect and engage. Please find the abstract below:
Professionals working in extreme settings such as war, famine, or epidemic disease often face trauma that is prolonged rather than episodic. Such conditions can undermine their sense of agency and complicate efforts to cope and remain engaged. Prior research has emphasized responses such as emotional distancing or withdrawal, but offers less insight into how professionals manage situations where trauma persists, disengagement is difficult, and expectations of impact diminish. Drawing on 73 diaries, interviews, field observations, and archival materials from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, this study examines how professionals draw on past experiences and future orientations to make sense of their work and sustain engagement in the present. We identify three pathways through which these temporal orientations shape coping over time. These pathways influence whether individuals return to fieldwork or redirect their efforts toward policy-oriented work. The study contributes to research on trauma and coping by showing how shifts in temporal orientation help reconfigure agency and account for different patterns of continued engagement or redirection.
Please register for the seminar on the ARCS website or directly here.
Here is the list of the remaining speakers and dates for this year (11am-12pm EST):
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Fabrizio Ferraro (IESE) – Mar 6 (Caroline Flammer will be hosting – look out for a new Zoom link)
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Joao Albino-Pimentel (USC) – April 10 (note change from April 3)
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Ben Lewis (BYU) - May 8 (note change from May 1)
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Hope to see you there!
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Best regards,
Olga Hawn, PhD
Associate Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Sustainability Distinguished Fellow
Faculty Director, Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal
Associate Editor, Management Science
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