The ESSEC Research Center on Capitalism, Globalization and Governance - C²G² - was launched in September 2010. The mission of the Center is to foster a trans-disciplinary focus on Business in Society and Business and Society issues. Business studies in general have had the tendency of increasingly falling into two (often combined) traps – universalism and “vertical drilling”. Universalism is the tendency to evacuate contexts. “Vertical drilling” is the in-depth exploration of relatively narrow issues or questions with little preoccupation for the dynamics of interplay/interconnections between those issues and others. The progress of “vertical drilling” has been the direct consequence of the acute division of scientific labor in social sciences and business studies. The Center has a trans-disciplinary intellectual strategy. The evolution of the contemporary business world is difficult to understand without a clear reading of the broad context – historical, institutional, political and cultural – in which it is embedded. The Center focuses more specifically on four broad research agenda points:
 | NEWS ERNOP Conference 2015: Call for papers 7th International Research Conference of the European Research Network On Philanthropy Interdisciplinary Research on Philanthropy: Connecting the Dots ESSEC Business School Paris, July 9-10, 2015 Call for contributions-CSR seminar "Innovative Practices and Emerging Trends: Extending the Corporate Responsibility Research Agenda", June 11-12, 2015  UPCOMING EVENTS Brownbag Seminars Marion Ligonie (ESSEC) - "Performativity in the making: Applying the theory of shared value" - N305, June 10, 2015
Research Seminar Series LATEST EVENTS Professor Claire Dambrin (ESCP) - "The Fabrication of Underuse: A longitudinal study of a CRM software package" - Le Club (N231), May 26, 2015 Professor Dror Etzion (McGill) - "An Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing well siting in the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Boom" - Le Club (N231), May 12, 2015 Professor Rober J. DAVID (McGill) - "The Evolution of Issue Interpretation within Organizational Fields: Buffering versus Integrating Framing of Environmental Issues in Civil Aviation" - Le Club (N231), Mar. 24, 2015 Professor Grégoire MALLARD (The Graduate Institute Geneva) -Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an age of global fracture - N305, Mar. 5, 2015 Professor Guido PALAZZO (HEC Lausanne) - Values Against Violence: Institutional Change in Societies Dominated by Organized Crime - Le Club (N231), Feb. 13, 2015 |