Business, Society and Sustainability

Latest News

• Seminar on constructing experts identity on May 24th - see events for more detail!

• Congratulations to Dr. Paul Donnelly of the centre on winning a prestigious  Taiwan Fellowship. For more details  see  http://www.dit.ie/news/archive2013/ditsdrpauldonnellyawardedprestigioustaiwanfellowship/

• Congratulations to Dr. Helen Chen(Editor)and other members of the centre on their recent edited volume  on Quantitative Methods.

• Welcome to Jennifer Manning who  joins the Business, Society and Sustainability Research Centre as a PhD
  student under the supervision of Dr. Paul Donnelly. The recipient of
  a 2012 Fiosraigh Dean of Graduate Students Scholarship, Jennifer's
  research --- titled ‘Alternative Trade and Sustainable Development:
  Understanding Indigenous Women Fair Trade Co-operatives in Guatemala’ --- seeks
  to investigate: 1) the process by which rural indigenous women producers in
  developing economies create co-operatives; 2) how these co-operatives engage in
  fair trade and operate in the global fair trade network; and 3) how sustainable
  these co-operatives are in supporting the livelihoods of rural, indigenous
  women. The project places emphasis on the role of organising as an emancipator
  for indigenous women, thereby challenging the dominant neoliberal economic
  paradigm and focusing on sustainability. The project proposes that
  investigating how and why indigenous women form co-operatives will provide a
  greater understanding regarding the ability of rural, indigenous women in
  developing countries to form organisations, and thus aid in the long term
  development of a socially and economically excluded indigenous community.

  A former student of DIT, Jennifer graduated with first class honours in both her
  BSc in Marketing (2002-06) and MSc in International Business (2006-07). Her
  professional industry experience includes working in the charitable non-profit
  sector and in academia as a project manager on an EU funded research project.
  In addition, she spent two years travelling India, China, South-East Asia, the
  South Pacific, Mexico and Central America, which included working in China as
  an English teacher and volunteering in a fair trade organisation in Guatemala.

   

• Check out the Events tab for upcoming Business, Society and Sustainability activities - 1pm -2pm Thursday 18th  October we have a seminar on Decomposing bankruptcy, insolvency & receiverships
  processes through narrative analysis.’

•  New EMail list for Ireland-based scholars interested in Work and Organizations: Message from Dr. Kate Kenny, NUI Galway: 'The idea is that there are many events happening at our various institutions, that might be of interest to scholars in neighboring places.   This mailing list is therefore for events andnews items relating to the topics of Work and Organizations, on the island of Ireland. ...Joining the list is easy at:  https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=WSG-IRL&A=1  Please sign up when you get the chance, and do forward to friends and
  colleagues' Great idea!
• Congratulations to Dr. Paul Donnelly, a director of the centre, for his recent publication Paul F. Donnelly (2012) 'Tracing the Path to “Tiger Hood”: Ireland's Move From Protectionism to Outward Looking Economic Development', Organization
  Management Journal, 9(2): 90-103.
• Congratulations to our collegues involved in the new book on Retailing in Ireland, in particular the editors Edmund O'Callaghan and Don O'Riordan - more information is available  here 
• Congratulations to Professor Aidan O'Driscoll, School of Marketing and founder-board member of the Business, Society and Sustainability research centre  who is to be conferred with the title 'Honorary Professor' by DIT. This is recogntion of Prof. O'Driscoll's long work and contribution as an excellent academic of international standard. The Business, Society and Sustainability centre is naturally delighted for, and  proud of  this recognition of Prof. O'Driscoll. 
• A lecture on ‘Critical Discourse Analysis as Tool to Address Social Equity Issues in Education’ By Prof. Ruth Harman (University of Georgia USA) has been organised by the Discourse Analysis Group and the Business, Society and Sustainability research centre and supported by the College of Business for  DIT Aungier St., Dublin, Friday December 9th, 2011DIT Aungier St., Room 3-073 1.00pm-2.30pm
• All welcome, though booking is appreciated and will ensure priority admission
• For more details, please contact: brendan.orourke@dit.ie
• The Business, Society and Sustainability Centre, together with the Discourse Analysis Group  is delighted that a talk entitled ‘The emergence of dialogue in strategy practice’ by  Martin Duffy (PhD student, School of Marketing, DIT) will take place in late November .  The  session is supported by the College of Business and will take place Thursday November  24^th, 2011 in DIT Aungier St., Dublin 2,  Room 3-077 2.00pm-3.00 pm. All welcome, though booking is appreciated and will ensure priority admission. For more details, please contact: brendan.orourke@dit.ie 
• The Business Society and Sustainability Centre would like to announce that photojournalist Dean Kelly, who had been documenting the Occupy Dame Street protest, will be presenting some of his findings to the 4th year IPE students, in room 2-046 in Aungier Street, Thursday 20th October at 4pm.  There is still some seats available!
• Congratulations to Dr. Paul F. Donnelly and Dr. John Hogan for their well-received presentations at the American Political Science Association 2011 Conference  in Seattle, Washington State, USA. 
• Congratulations to Drs. Tippmann & Scott!!! Dr. Esther Tippmann  has won a prestigious IRCHSS Government of
• Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship.  The research project is  entitled Solving Critical Problems Locally: Subsidiary Middle Managers' Interactions and Capability Development in MNCs.  This project will involve continued collaboration withDr Pamela Sharkey Scott and Prof Vincent Mangematin from Grenoble Ecole de Management. During the first two years of the fellowship  Esther will be based primarily  at Grenoble  with the third year in the College of Business at DIT. 
• A podcast, by Colin Hughes, of an interview with   Dr. Brendan K. O'Rourke on the nature of enterprise discourse is now available here.
• A new book on business and society edited by and with contributions from centre members has just been published by Gill and MacMillan. Irish Business and Society: Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly and Brendan K.ORourke. See here for more details.