Ethnography of War Hospital in Afghanistan

What role should business take in addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals? How can business and management research take on a more normative and societal focus, yet still be published in the very top journal of our field? These questions will feature alongside many others with a societal focus in the seminar series on grand challenges in management and organizations.

Therefore we have invited leading researchers from business schools around the world who connect grand challenges to mainstream management and organizational theory and manage to publish their work in the leading journals of our field (AMJ, AMR, etc.). Each of the invited speakers will deliver a seminar and in addition to this will offer a short informal workshop as well (which will be announced later).

Mark de Rond
Mark's unique fieldwork and teaching approach have fostered an eclectic portfolio of executive education clients, including several 'magic circle' law firms, IBM, McKinsey, KPMG, PWC, Shell, OfCom, Stephenson Harwood, Herbert Smith, Lloyds-TSB, Diageo, Rolls Royce, and BT among many others. He received training in mediation and negotiation at Harvard Law School, is part of the University mediation team, and holds advanced degrees in management and economics, photojournalism and documentary photography. His research has featured widely in the press, including in The Economist, TIME magazine, The Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Week, Der Spiegel, Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Evening Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and on the BBC. His photographs have been published in The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and by the BBC News.

Workshop
Mark de Rond will speak about getting ethnographic research on grand challenges published in top journals.

Seminar Series on Grand Challenges in Management and Organizations
This event is part of the Seminar Series on Grand Challenges in Management and Organizations. We have invited leading researchers from business schools around the world who connect grand challenges to mainstream management and organizational theory and manage to publish their work in the leading journals of our field (AMJ, AMR, etc.). Each of the invited speakers will deliver a seminar and in addition to this will offer a short informal workshop as well.

March 29 Mark de Rond: Ethnography of war hospital in Afghanistan  
April 19 Juliane Reinecke: Social movements, framing and standard setting in societal change 
May 24 Andreas Scherer: Making Sense of decoupling through narration: The Case of Anti-Corruption

After summer Roy Suddaby: Title and exact date to be announced 
Tina Dacin: Title and date to be announced