Hugely looking forward to the R:ETRO webinar with @FollowAlisonT Thurs 5 Dec 4pm GMT: 'Higher ground: stakeholder trust and the limits of reputational risk management' addressing the latter's shortcomings in ensuring more responsible business. More at linkedin.com/showcase/511720…

Looking forward to a great first R:ETRO webinar of term, next Thurs 4-5 pm (GMT): @CarloLCordasco on 'The ethics of explainability in human and #AI decision-making', AI's black-box problem, and the Right to Explanation. More on all past/future R:ETROs: sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centre…

The latest report from our Enacting Purpose Initiative, inspired by the 2024 Purpose Day, co-hosted in Paris in March with the @HECParisSnO (youtube.com/watch?v=m5bPc2UK…), introduces the SCORE² culture framework, aimed at enabling purposeful operations. See: enactingpurpose.org/wp-conte…

'On the surface it looks like a cult' but it is a 'parasocial relationship as a commercial play'. Stephanie Choi @ub_asiaresearch completes a revelatory cultural tour: how differently authenticity & intimacy work in a unique context, confounding our assumptions #repsymp24

'Companies create castles, fans create empires' @DrAreumJeong on superfans (like her) as a 'central productive force' 'a materialisation of effective labour' in #Kpop, 'peer to peer', even 'pushing against capitalist structures' to ensure idols' success #newpower #repsymp24

Farhan Iqbal @KelleySchool on different 'thought worlds' of investors/other stakeholders & effects of reactions to pro-social (LGBT) initiatives captured simultaneously: shareholders 'rewarding low levels of support', but mitigated by public sentiment/firm performance #repsymp24

How different sorts of sanction against #dopingincycling teams impacts on future behaviour, not on their own but in combination: regulatory, economic and social sanctions working together - such as public trust in regulators, and how organisations react. @Maxine_M_Yu #repsymp24

.@CyrusDioun unpacks #stigma in the legalised Washington marajuana market and its market stigmatised groups (MSGs) - the legacy impacts, prejudice (only 3% black sellers) and how language addresses the stigma, e.g., 'medical benefits' #repsymp24

V. interesting example from @cohenmohliver on global differences re #LGBT within organisations and networks: when Coco-Cola bottlers in Switzerland pushed to support an anti-gay referendum, Coco-Cola conspired to sneak a pro-LGBT cover onto a far right newspaper. #repsymp24

#repsymp24 Naomi Gardberg @Baruch_Zicklin, researching international attitudes (to adoption) makes a plea for more research into implications of #LGBT, in a context of very little existing scholarship