The role of Ethics and gender equality towards understanding the UN Global Goals

 

  • Prof. O. C. Ferrel and Prof. Linda Ferrell  - The role of CSR and business ethics on leadership

Dr. O.C. Ferrell is the James T. Pursell, Sr. Eminent Scholar in Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures at Auburn University. Dr. Ferrell is co-author of several leading textbooks including Business Ethics and published several articles in leading journals. He writes weekly business ethics summaries and reviews for the Wall Street Journal with a subscriber list of over 6000. Dr. Ferrell has served as an expert witness is some high profile ethics, legal and marketing cases.

 

Dr. Linda Ferrell is Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department. Dr. Ferrell research interests include marketing ethics, ethics training and effectiveness, the legalization of business ethics as well as corporate social responsibility and sustainability. She has published several articles in leading journals and co-author of several leading textbooks including Business Ethics. Dr. Ferrell also serves as an expert witness in ethics and legal disputes.

 

  • Prof. Patrick Murphy - The role of Marketing ethics and CSR in relation to sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Dr. Patrick E. Murphy () specializes in marketing and business ethics issues. His recent work has focused on normative perspectives for ethical and socially responsible marketing, distributive justice as it relates to marketing decision making, emerging ethical concerns in advertising, and ethics and the ethical foundations of relationship marketing. His articles have won “best paper” awards from the Journal of Advertising, Journal of Macromarketing, and the European Journal of Marketing.

Dr. Murphy is the founder of the International Symposium of Marketing Ethics and CSR.

  • Dr. Wendy Hein  Ethics of Gender and (In)Equalities - Femisnt Perspectives.

Dr Wendy Hein (PhD University of Edinburgh), is Lecturer in Marketing at Birkbeck, University of London, where she researches and teaches on gender (in)equalities in marketing and consumer research. She leads various gender-related research initiatives and is co-lead of Marketing as a subject discipline in the UN PRME gender equality working group. Her research focuses particularly on transforming marketing curricula, marketing and consumption institutions, and on critical feminist approaches to the study of gender, especially men and masculinities.

 

  1. Dr. Anna Fryberg Yngfalk and Assct. Prof. Marcus Fellesson open up a discussion on Gender Equality perspectives in research and education.

Dr. Anna and Dr. Markus are researchers at CTF- Service Research Centre and lecturers in Business administration, Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University. Dr. Yngfalk and Dr. Fellesson have several publications focusses on customers, marketing, organizational practice and the development of service culture. They are working on a project "Customers with benefits: #MeToo, power, and gender in customer-centric service work”. The project seeks to generate more knowledge about the work environment in service organizations by focusing on sexual harassment from customers, which is both more extensive and frequent in the service context compared to other industries.

Refreshments will be served. For more information contact: Samuel Petros Sebhatu, samuel.sebhatu@kau.se