Department of Business Humanities and Law

PhD Defence: Olivia Norma Jørgensen


Friday, January 31, 2025 - 13:00 to 15:00

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Olivia Norma Jørgensen has submitted her thesis entitled:

Auditors as Idealists?
Climate Change, EU Sustainability Regulation, and the Efficacy of Assurance

The thesis is an ethnographic study of the moral dilemmas which sustainability professionals experience working with sustainability in a large audit firm. Drawing on data gathered from Summer 2021 through Summer 2024, the thesis offers an account of moral work in the everyday lives of professionals obtaining assurance and ensuring trust in reported information related to sustainability. The findings show how the implementation of sustainability into finance, regulatory frameworks and audit standards not only led to moral dilemmas in the sustainability professionals’ day-to-day lives but also created a particular kind of morality which has shaped the business landscape of Danish companies’ work with sustainability and beyond.

The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Primary Supervisor:

Associate Professor Daniel Scott Souleles
Department of Business Humanities and Law
Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Marius Gudmand-Høyer (Chair)
Department of Business Humanities and Law
Copenhagen Business School
 
Impact Fellow Aneil Tripathy
Climate and Sustainability Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Provost Gillian Tett
King's College
Cambridge University

Date: 31. january
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Online: Teams
 
*Please note that the microphone and camera of all spectators must be turned off.

Location: Porcelænshavenlænshaven
Room: PHRs20
Reception: Lobby outside PHRs2

*The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence.

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