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Inter-Disciplinary Symposium on Business Ethics & Business/Economic History:
“The Challenges of Capitalism for the
Common Good”
This one day research symposium takes place at
Henley Business School, the University of Reading on Tuesday 17 June 2014.
The symposium focuses on the evolution of relations and constructions of moral values in key social classes influencing the definition of common good, and how it affects the economy and society.
The first part of the day is a historical focus on the pre-modern, medieval and modern relations between merchants and kings and
their relevance in current challenges of business ethics in a forward-thinking academic community. It explores competing and complementary perspectives on societal perceptions of virtue and morality. Distinguished speakers are
Professor Agustín González Enciso,
Professor Daryl Koehn,
Dr Alisdair Dobieand
Prof. Dr H. H. Hoppe.
The second part of the symposium critically reflects and extends current theory on organisational and individual virtue ethics
to evaluate assumptions regarding how the firm is governed and managed, and the resulting habituated assumptions on its morality, work and agency of key internal firm stakeholders and individual agents. Speakers will offer thought on changes on the common
good and the firm morality to address the current challenges of capitalism for the common good. In the second part of the symposium distinguished speakers are
Professor Alejo José Sison,
Professor Geoff Moore,
Professor Ron Beadle and
Dr Kleio Akrivou.
Finally,
Professor Mark Casson will provide a synthesis of
the accumulated knowledge, including insights from the day.
This event will be hosted by the Centre of Social and Organisational Studies (CSOS),
in Henley Business School in association with the Centre of Economic History, the University of Reading. The event is chaired by
Dr Kleio Akrivou,
Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Organisational Behaviour.
View the full programme including
timings
here.
Fees:
External Academic faculty - £70
Research students - £25
UoR / HBS faculty - £40
Research students within the University of Reading may have the attendance fee waived upon request. Researchers should email
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Speakers’ Institutional Affiliations
Distinguished Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute- Founder & President, Property and Freedom Society
Professor Alejo José Sison Galsim, Department of Philosophy, University of Navarre,
Pamplona, Spain
Professor Geoff Moore, Durham University Business School, Durham University,
UK
Professor Ron Beadle, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria
University, UK
Dr. Kleio Akrivou, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK
Professor Mark Casson, Henley Business School and School of Economics,
University of Reading, UK
Associate Professor of Business Ethics & Organisational Behaviour
Academic Director, MSc in International Management
Henley Business School, The University of Reading
Convener, Centre for Social and Organisational Studies (CSOS)
Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6UD
United Kingdom
phone +44 (0)118 378 6475