Business History through the looking glass of [De]colonisation: A BBS seminar mini-series
This mini-series aims at providing food for thought on increased awareness of history鈥檚 significance in shaping our thinking, in our research and teaching.
In partnership with the BBS Decolonisation Project, throughout the seminar series we will be presenting the potential value of Business History鈥檚 contributions to our understanding of the pasts, presents and possible futures of colonising and decolonising. We will hear presentations by business, management and financial historians from within and beyond BBS, with all staff invited. The series will showcase the diverse, innovative, and often transdisciplinary historical research being undertaken across these fields and will present us with often unfamiliar 鈥渉istories of the present鈥 that can help us in developing and deepening our understandings of how decolonizing and recolonizing may play out in the coming decades. We also envision these presentations as providing food for thought on ways to incorporate insights from business, management and financial history into our teaching and curricula.
For the first seminar in this series, 鈥淭he 鈥History of the Present鈥: indigenous management knowledge鈥 we were joined by Stephen Cummings, Professor of Management and Associate Dean (International and Accreditation) at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He focused his talk on his upcoming book, Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks, to be published by SAGE, where he highlighted, reflected on, and welcomed discussion on the issues he raised.
You are invited to the second seminar 鈥淎 decolonizing-recolonizing experience from Latin Americas on business history education? 鈥 with on 21 May 2024. Those who want to watch online can join on
Alex Faria is Associate Professor in Organization and Strategy Studies at the Brazilian School of Public Administration and Management of the Funda莽茫o Getulio Vargas (EBAPE-FGV), Rio de Janeiro-Brazil. He is also Associate Director and Module Director at the International Masters鈥 Program for Managers (IMPM), Visiting Researcher at Lancaster University Management School, Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Researcher of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq-Brazil), and past Chair of Critical Management Studies Division at the Academy of Management. His scholarship within and outside existing systems of knowledge draws on critical management studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, and management learning. He is a member of the Decolonizing Alliance and the Action Learning Lab:Alliance.