Conflict and co-creation: Strategies for change in management education

This workshop is part of Responsible Organising (RO) workshop series under the heading “Envisioning the School of Organising”, posing a simple question: “How could we reimagine teaching, research and administration in a way that embody our deepest aspirations for human organising?”

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Date: 26.9.2023 10.00-13.00

Location: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Room 307

The workshop is open to everyone, regardless of background – no teaching experience is necessary.

Business schools are powerful institutions that shape future decision-makers' perceptions of what and who matter in organisations and society. Despite the surge of corporate responsibility and sustainability in business school curricula, management education is recognized for (re)producing inequalities and failing to respond to contemporary ecological and social crises. If business schools are to equip their students with the ability to imagine other – better – ways of organising, we need to think twice about what and how we teach.

In this workshop, Micaela and Susan share their experiences of working for change in the classroom and present two examples of teaching gender-related topics and engaging with feminist theories and pedagogy. Together with the participants, they explore the question of how we can act to challenge conventional paradigms in management education and discuss the strategies and struggles involved in working with supposedly controversial topics that confront the status quo of the business school.

The workshop will be held in person at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, with the presentation streamed online. Participants who register for the presentation online will receive a link to Teams.

If you have any questions, please contact responsible.organising@hanken.fi.

Speakers information

Micaela Stierncreutz is a Doctoral Researcher in Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. In her research, which focuses on equality work and how equality is acted upon in Nordic organisations, she explores the role of resistance in working for change.

Susan Meriläinen is Professor of Management at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her main area of research is feminist theorising of organizations and management, with a particular focus on feminist activism at work. Susan’s current projects relate to the embodied and material aspects of feminist knowledge production practices and their potential to challenge the patriarchal social formations of academic work.