Reputation Oxford

🤔 As we consider the huge impact #AI tools and #AIagents can have on business and #productivity, we also need to carefully consider what it should do. Watch now as @profyounger and @rachelbotsman discuss AI as a stakeholder. - oxsbs.link/4h3lKpE @ReputationOxfd

Hugely looking forward to the R:ETRO webinar with @FollowAlisonT Thurs 5 Dec 4pm GMT: 'Higher ground: stakeholder trust and the limits of reputational risk management' addressing the latter's shortcomings in ensuring more responsible business. More at linkedin.com/showcase/51172…

Please join us next Tuesday at 4pm (GMT) for the second R:ETRO webinar of term with Matthew Caulfield @FordhamGSB on the value of order in governing firms. It promises to be a fascinating presentation/discussion. More information in the link -linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Looking forward to a great first R:ETRO webinar of term, next Thurs 4-5 pm (GMT): @CarloLCordasco on 'The ethics of explainability in human and #AI decision-making', AI's black-box problem, and the Right to Explanation. More on all past/future R:ETROs: sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centr…

The latest report from our Enacting Purpose Initiative, inspired by the 2024 Purpose Day, co-hosted in Paris in March with the @HECParisSnO (youtube.com/watch?v=m5bPc2…), introduces the SCORE² culture framework, aimed at enabling purposeful operations. See: enactingpurpose.org/wp-content/upl…

'On the surface it looks like a cult' but it is a 'parasocial relationship as a commercial play'. Stephanie Choi @ub_asiaresearch completes a revelatory cultural tour: how differently authenticity & intimacy work in a unique context, confounding our assumptions #repsymp24

'Companies create castles, fans create empires' @DrAreumJeong on superfans (like her) as a 'central productive force' 'a materialisation of effective labour' in #Kpop, 'peer to peer', even 'pushing against capitalist structures' to ensure idols' success #newpower #repsymp24

Last session of a really wide-ranging #repsymp24: "What’s up with K-pop Today? Fandom, authenticity and the ‘dark side of #Kpop’" @DrAreumJeong @TBaudinette, Stephanie Choi @ub_asiaresearch

Farhan Iqbal @KelleySchool on different 'thought worlds' of investors/other stakeholders & effects of reactions to pro-social (LGBT) initiatives captured simultaneously: shareholders 'rewarding low levels of support', but mitigated by public sentiment/firm performance #repsymp24

How different sorts of sanction against #dopingincycling teams impacts on future behaviour, not on their own but in combination: regulatory, economic and social sanctions working together - such as public trust in regulators, and how organisations react. @Maxine_M_Yu #repsymp24

.@CyrusDioun unpacks #stigma in the legalised Washington marajuana market and its market stigmatised groups (MSGs) - the legacy impacts, prejudice (only 3% black sellers) and how language addresses the stigma, e.g., 'medical benefits' #repsymp24

#repsymp24: Stakeholder responses to scandal & controversial firm actions @DrNGillespie @KishaLashley @CyrusDioun @Maxine_M_Yu Farhan Iqbal @KelleySchool; CEOs’ actions & #socialevaluations Tim Pollock @HaslamUT, Jung-Hoon Han @SKKUni1398, @strat_prof, Peggy Lee @WPCareySchool

V. interesting example from @cohenmohliver on global differences re #LGBT within organisations and networks: when Coco-Cola bottlers in Switzerland pushed to support an anti-gay referendum, Coco-Cola conspired to sneak a pro-LGBT cover onto a far right newspaper. #repsymp24

#repsymp24 Naomi Gardberg @Baruch_Zicklin, researching international attitudes (to adoption) makes a plea for more research into implications of #LGBT, in a context of very little existing scholarship

#repsymp24 Bryant Hudson @IESEG fascinating cultural context for studying #LGBT #stigma: dedicated LGBT homes for the elderly in France, and official resistance to building them on egalité grounds: 'Arent you creating a ghetto?'

Last afternoon of #repsymp24 kicks off with a panel/discussion: 'Multinational LGBTQ policies in contested international business environments: #stigma, #reputation & stakeholder reactions' with BIll Newburry, Naomi Gardberg, Bryant Hudson @cohenmohliver

Amazing discussion on #socialpurpose & #ethics encompassing organisations (esp. alignment) & self-worth (inc #ikigai), where the law is necessary (or evil), who chooses (top-down, bottom-up, inside-out, outside-in), the 'dark side' & #purposewashing. The epitome of #repsymp24

Next at #repsymp24: 'Looking for the ethics in social #purpose' @Prof_LSpence @willsharvey, Rita Mota @ChuaNathania @Samuel_Mortimer @EricOrts; 'Governing China: between national #legitimacy & international reputation management' Sonja Opper, @AnnaLiAhlers, Nicholas Lardy

Emily Ulrich on #BlackRock's 'tainted' global activities, how 'location decisions play a significant role in shaping corporate image' & the 'consequences to firm reputation... can translate into material financial cost'. Great set of presentations from young scholars #repsymp24

'The legitimation trap': Alex Rustler's fascinating case study of the pitfalls of a #mining company in Peru seeking #legitimacy through non-market practices, and how growing local expectations 'undermine their own legitimation processes' #repsymp24