Being Crafty: The Significance of Craft for Research in Business and Management

In this lecture, I explore the meaning and significance of craft for the self-understanding and development of organizational research. The construct of craft is situated in the context of its displacement by modernisation, as a practice characterized by skills that elude standardization and routinization. Consideration of research-as-craft, we suggest, speaks to, and supports, a distinctive – imaginative, embodied and being-centred – aspect and mode of management and organizational research. In unsettling and subverting knower/known and mind/body dualisms, ‘craftiness’ is of ethical and political, as well as methodological, significance.

15:00 – Welcome by Head of Department Dorte Salskov-Iversen

Introduction by Dean of Research Peter Møllgaard

15:15 – Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hugh Willmott

16:00 – Reception at MSC in Dalgas Have 15

Registration: Please send an email to gl.msc@cbs.dk before 23 October, 2017.