CBS’ contributions as OECD Knowledge Partner 2018
The international organisation OECD will gather influential actors at this year’s OECD Forum 2018 in Paris. CBS will again participate as a special knowledge partner.
“What brings us together” is the theme of the Forum with the issues International Co-operation, Inclusive Growth and Digitalization in focus.
“This event gathers a very wide and diverse audience - high-level government representatives, CEOs, academics, leaders from civil society and trade unions as well as prominent members of media. We see CBS’ active presence and participation in this event as a part of our commitment to responsible management education and as a way to implement CBS’ Business-in-Society strategy”, says Professor Dana Minbaeva, CBS Vice President for International Affairs.
Read more about this year’s focus
CBS’ participation
CBS’ will send a delegation when the Forum takes place on 29-30 May:
An expert in economic inequality
Professor Brooke Harrington will serve as an expert on a panel discussing economic inequality. Professor Harrington is author of the recently published and widely acclaimed book Capital without Borders: Wealth Management and the One Percent, published by Harvard University Press.
Facebook’s impact on human rights
Professor Karin Buhmann will address the issue of ‘What brings us together’ through the case of Facebook’s impact on its users’ human rights and ask whether OECD countries and citizens are subject to a blind spot in regard to responsible business conduct when we do not demand the same steps of Global North based social media companies as we do of companies in the textile or agricultural sectors that source from the Global South. In her research, Professor Buhman works with Business & Human Rights and is a member of Denmark's National Contact Point under OECD's Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
An embodied and graphical exercise about inequality
CBS’ recently established Business in Society research platforms will also be represented. Faculty from the Business in Society research platform (BiS platform) on Inequality will participate in the discussion about the causes and consequences of inequality at a national and international level, including issues of creating inclusive growth that benefits broad segments of the population. The BiS platform on Diversity and Differences will facilitate a workshop for the “Idea Factory” on the theme “what unites us”. The workshop will be an embodied and graphical exercise visualising – and reflecting upon – the struggles and privileges that cooperation between diverse groups of people inevitably brings forward.
A critical role towards digitalisation
The BiS platform on Transformations will be represented by Professor Kim Normann Andersen and Associate Professor Helle Zinner Henriksen. They focus on the transformation of work and management. Professor Normann Andersen explains their proposition:
“The force of digitalisation is equivalent to the force of the invisible hand in the market economy which ensures a match between supply and demand. Yet, where the invisible hand within Adam Smith’s universe was a positive mechanism and an argument for limited restriction on the individual’s choices, we propose a more critical role towards digitalisation”.
OECD was established in 1960 to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in a democratic context.
Read a blog post for the OECD Forum 2018 written by Assistant Professor at CBS David Jinkins:
To Efficiency and Beyond: Ethics and Inequality
For more information, please contact:
CBS Vice President for International Affairs, Professor Dana Minbaeva