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Professor Bobby Banerjee

Professor of Management

Cass Business School, Faculty of Management

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Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Bobby Banerjee is Professor of Management and Associate Dean of Research & Enterprise at Cass Business School. He was also Director of the Executive PhD program from 2013 to 2019. His primary research interests are in the areas of corporate social irresponsibility, sustainability, climate change and resistance movements. Other research interests include critical management studies, Indigenous ecology, and postcolonial studies. He has published extensively in leading scholarly journals and am the author of two books: Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and the co-edited volume Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalization. He serve on the editorial board of seven international journals and was a Senior Editor at Organization Studies from 2007 to 2019. He is an Associate Editor at Business & Society. He is also a cofounder of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Bayes Business School.

Prof Banerjee teaches an undergraduate module on Climate Change and the World Economy, which offers critical and multidisciplinary perspectives on climate change focusing on issues like climate justice, policy and climate activism. He also leads an MBA international study tour of Cuba where we meet business leaders, government officials, students and academics to understand the challenges of an economy in transition, with particular references to environmental and social sustainability. He also conduct various seminars for PhD candidates. He currently supervises 6 PhD candidates.

Qualifications

  1. BSc, ST Joseph's College, Bangalore University, India
  2. MBA, University of Bombay, India
  3. PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Employment

  1. Associate Dean of Research & Enterprise, City, University of London, Jan 2019 – present
  2. Director - Executive PhD program, Cass Business School, City University of London, Jan 2013 – Feb 2019

Languages

Bengali (can speak and understand spoken), English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Hindi (can read, write, speak and understand spoken).

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Business Ethics
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Critical Management Studies
  • Environmental Management
  • International Business
  • Management
  • Organization Theory
  • Strategic Management

Industries

  • education, training & employment agencies
  • environmental management
  • mining
  • non-profit & voluntary sector
  • oil & gas
  • utilities

Geographic Areas

  • Africa
  • Americas - South
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Australia & Oceania
  • Americas - Latin
  • Americas - North
  • Scandinavia
  • Asia - East

Research

Title of thesis: Exploring the role of local setting dimensions in cross-sector collaborations for sustainable development

Sep 2017

Summary of research

New questions are emerging in the management literature regarding the role of local settings and communities and how these can benefit from new organizational interventions and models that aim to address grand challenges such as lack of education, health issues, poverty, energy alternatives, achieving sustainable development, among other. Moreover, there are still variations in the literature in terms of what is considered successful engagement or outcome.

The goal of this research proposal is to contribute to understanding how cross-sector collaborations aimed to achieve sustainable development are embedding the dimensions of their local settings in the formation, implementation and outcomes of their initiatives

Research students

1st supervisor

Daniel Fisher

Attendance: Sep 2018 – present, part-time

Thesis title: On The Lack Of Social Moral Efficiency In Public Function Firm Delivery: Towards A New Approach Of Firm Responsibility

Role: 1st Supervisor

Ana Cristina Dahik Loor

Attendance: Sep 2017 – present, part-time

Thesis title: Beyond discourse: exploring cross-sector collaborations as an alternative to solve grand challenges in local indigenous communities in Mexico

Role: 1st Supervisor

Carla El Hage

Attendance: Sep 2017 – present, part-time

Thesis title: Exploring refugee entrepreneurs

Role: 1st Supervisor

Johanna Järvelä

Attendance: Sep 2017 – present, full-time

Thesis title: Politics of responsibility in mining conflict governance - A case study of Finland & Chile

Role: 1st Supervisor

Juvaria Jafri Madani

Attendance: Sep 2016 – present, full-time

Thesis title: ‘Development as Inclusion’: Inclusive development through the lens of informality

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Publications

  1. Banerjee, S.B. (2018). Transnational power and translocal governance: The politics of corporate responsibility. Human Relations, 71(6), pp. 796–821. doi:10.1177/0018726717726586.

Books (3)

  1. Banerjee, S.B., Chio, V.C.M. and Mir, R. (2009). Organizations, markets and imperial formations: Towards an anthropology of globalization. ISBN 978-1-84844-317-4.
  2. Banerjee, S. (2009). Organization, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalization. Banerjee, , Chio, V. and Mir, R. (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-84844-317-4.
  3. Banerjee, S. (2007). Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Sheffield: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-84542-976-8.

Chapters (29)

  1. Banerjee, S.B. (2017). Corporate environmentalism and the Greening of Strategic Marketing: Implications for marketing theory and practice. Greener Marketing: A Global Perspective on Greening Marketing Practice (pp. 16–40). ISBN 978-1-874719-14-4.
  2. Spicer, A. and Banerjee, B. (2016). Governance: Changing conceptions of the corporation. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies (pp. 403–411). ISBN 978-0-415-70286-7.
  3. Banerjee, S.B. (2012). Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment. The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment (pp. 572–590). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958445-1.
  4. Banerjee, S.B. (2011). Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press.
  5. Banerjee, S. (2011). Globalization. In Tadajewski, M., Maclaran, P., Parsons, L. and Parker, M. (Eds.), Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies London: Sage.
  6. Banerjee, B., Busch, T., Cooper, T., Mazutis, D. and Stomp, J. (2010). MNCs' social, ethical and legal responsibilities (corporate social responsibility). Research Companion to Green International Management Studies: A Guide for Future Research, Collaboration and Review Writing (pp. 47–84). ISBN 978-1-84980-363-2.
  7. Banerjee, S., Kashyap, R. and Iyewr, E. (2009). The relationship between corporate and individual environmental responsibility. In Saito, F. (Ed.), Consumer Behavior New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. ISBN 978-1-60692-394-8.
  8. Banerjee, S., Clegg, S. and Carter, C. (2009). Managing globalization. In Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Management Studies Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  9. Banerjee, S.B., Chio, V.C.M. and Mir, R. (2009). The imperial formations of globalization. Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalization (pp. 3–14). ISBN 978-1-84844-317-4.
  10. Chio, V.C.M. and Banerjee, S.B. (2009). Towards an anthropology of globalization. Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalization (pp. 219–231). ISBN 978-1-84844-317-4.
  11. Mir, R., Banerjee, S.B. and Mir, A. (2009). How does knowledge flow? A critical analysis of intraorganizational knowledge transfer. Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalization (pp. 98–131). ISBN 978-1-84844-317-4.
  12. Banerjee, S.B. (2008). The political economy of corporate social responsibility. Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship (pp. 454–475). ISBN 978-1-84542-836-5.
  13. Banerjee, S. (2007). Corporate citizenship: A critical perspective. In Clegg, S. and Bailey, J.R. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies Sage. ISBN 978-1-4129-1515-1.
  14. (2006). The Challenge of Organising and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility. In Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-62635-5.
  15. Banerjee, S. and Osuri, G. (2005). Making global subjects: Diasporic identity as a media event. In Lindstead, S. and Lindstead, A. (Eds.), Interrupting Identities New York: Routledge.
  16. Banerjee, S. (2004). Teaching sustainability: A critical perspective. In Galea, C. (Ed.), Teaching Business Sustainability Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing. ISBN 978-1-874719-54-0.
  17. Banerjee, S. (2004). Managing sustainability. In Linstead, S., Fulop, L. and Lilley, S. (Eds.), Management and Organization - A Critical Text. London: Palgrave.
  18. Banerjee, S., Browne, M., Fulop, L. and Lindstead, S. (2004). Managing strategically. In Lindstead, S., Fulop, L. and Lilley, S. (Eds.), Management and Organization - A Critical Text. London: Palgrave.
  19. Banerjee, S. and Osuri, G. (2003). Organizing multiple spacetimes in a colonial context: Indigeneity and white Australian nationalism at the Melbourne Museum. In Lindstead, S. (Ed.), Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation London: Routledge.
  20. Banerjee, S. (2003). The practice of stakeholder colonialism: National interest and colonial discourses in the management of indigenous stakeholders. In Prasad, A. (Ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis New York: Palgrave.
  21. Banerjee, S. (2000). Corporate environmentalism and environmental management: A review. In Dahiya, S.B. (Ed.), The Current State of Business Disciplines: Management (pp. 1789–1808). India: Spellbound Publications.
  22. Banerjee, S. (2000). Environment regulations and standards: Implications for trade in Vietnam. In Tran Van Hoa, J. (Ed.), Prospects in Trade, Investment and Business in Vietnam and East Asia (pp. 182–199). London: Macmillan.
  23. Browne, M., Banerjee, S., Fulop, L. and Lindstead, S. (1999). Managing strategically. In Fulop, L. and Lindstead, S. (Eds.), Management - A Critical Text. (pp. 364–413). London: Macmillan.
  24. Banerjee, S. (1998). Globalization, economic development and ecology: A critical examination. In Rao, C.P. (Ed.), Globalization, Privatization and the Free Market Economy. (pp. 47–62). Westport: Quorum Books.
  25. Banerjee, S. (1996). The greening of public policy: The role of consumer research. In Riquier, C. and Sharp, B. (Eds.), Southern Marketing: Theory and Applications (pp. 255–277). Adelaide
  26. Banerjee, S. (1996). The greening of marketing education. In Martin, A. and Starr, R.G. (Eds.), Expanding Marketing Knowledge (pp. 557–564). Auckland
  27. Participatory Action Research. In SAGE Publications, Inc.. ISBN 978-1-4129-5670-3.
  28. Organization and Identity. In Routledge.
  29. Management Ethics. In Routledge.

Journal articles (51)

  1. Bobby Banerjee, S., Maher, R. and Krämer, R. (2021). Resistance is fertile: Toward a political ecology of translocal resistance. Organization pp. 135050842199574–135050842199574. doi:10.1177/1350508421995742.
  2. Banerjee, S.B., Jermier, J.M., Peredo, A.M., Perey, R. and Reichel, A. (2021). Theoretical perspectives on organizations and organizing in a post-growth era. Organization, 28(3), pp. 337–357. doi:10.1177/1350508420973629.
  3. Sree Kumar, S., Banerjee, B., Duarte, F.D.P. and Dadich, A. (2020). The business – government nexus: Impact of government actions and legislation on business responses to climate change. Journal of Management & Organization, 26(6), pp. 952–974. doi:10.1017/jmo.2020.21.
  4. Ergene, S., Banerjee, S.B. and Hoffman, A.J. (2020). (Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement. Organization Studies pp. 17084062093789–17084062093789. doi:10.1177/0170840620937892.
  5. Banerjee, B. (2020). Modern Slavery Is an Enabling Condition of Global Neoliberal Capitalism: Commentary on Modern Slavery in Business. Business & Society pp. 765031989847–765031989847. doi:10.1177/0007650319898478.
  6. Arda, L. and Banerjee, S.B. (2019). Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: The NGOization of Palestine. Business & Society pp. 765031987082–765031987082. doi:10.1177/0007650319870825.
  7. Alamgir, F. and Banerjee, S.B. (2019). Contested compliance regimes in global production networks: Insights from the Bangladesh garment industry. Human Relations, 72(2), pp. 272–297. doi:10.1177/0018726718760150.
  8. Banerjee, S.B. (2018). Markets and violence. Journal of Marketing Management, 34(11-12), pp. 1023–1031. doi:10.1080/0267257x.2018.1468611.
  9. Slawinski, N., Pinkse, J., Busch, T. and Banerjee, S.B. (2017). The Role of Short-Termism and Uncertainty Avoidance in Organizational Inaction on Climate Change. Business & Society, 56(2), pp. 253–282. doi:10.1177/0007650315576136.
  10. Banerjee, S.B. and Jackson, L. (2017). Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh. Human Relations, 70(1), pp. 63–91. doi:10.1177/0018726716640865.
  11. Fleming, P. and Banerjee, S.B. (2016). When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies. Human Relations, 69(2), pp. 257–276. doi:10.1177/0018726715599241.
  12. Bobby Banerjee, S. (2014). A critical perspective on corporate social responsibility. critical perspectives on international business, 10(1/2), pp. 84–95. doi:10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0021.
  13. Banerjee, S. and Morley, C. (2013). Professional Doctorates in Management: Toward a Practice-Based Approach to Doctoral Education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 12(2), pp. 173–193. doi:10.5465/amle.2012.0159.
  14. Kraemer, R., Whiteman, G. and Banerjee, B. (2013). Conflict and Astroturfing in Niyamgiri: The Importance of National Advocacy Networks in Anti-Corporate Social Movements. Organization Studies, 34(5-6), pp. 823–852. doi:10.1177/0170840613479240.
  15. Banerjee, S.B. (2012). A Climate for Change? Critical Reflections on the Durban United Nations Climate Change Conference. Organization Studies, 33(12), pp. 1761–1786. doi:10.1177/0170840612464609.
  16. Wittneben, B.B.F., Okereke, C., Banerjee, S.B. and Levy, D.L. (2012). Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes. Organization Studies, 33(11), pp. 1431–1450. doi:10.1177/0170840612464612.
  17. Banerjee, S.B. (2011). Embedding Sustainability Across the Organization: A Critical Perspective. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 10(4), pp. 719–731. doi:10.5465/amle.2010.0005.
  18. Banerjee, S.B. (2011). Voices of the Governed: towards a theory of the translocal. Organization, 18(3), pp. 323–344. doi:10.1177/1350508411398729.
  19. Banerjee, S.B. and Bonnefous, A.-.M. (2011). Stakeholder management and sustainability strategies in the French nuclear industry. Business Strategy and the Environment, 20(2), pp. 124–140. doi:10.1002/bse.681.
  20. Wittneben, B., Okereke, C., Banerjee, B. and Levy, D. (2010). Special Issue on Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes. Organization Studies, 31(5), pp. 629–631. doi:10.1177/0170840610374920.
  21. Banerjee, S. and Tedmanson, D. (2010). Grass burning under our feet: Indigenous enterprise development in a political economy of whiteness. Management Learning, 41(2), pp. 147–165. doi:10.1177/1350507609357391.
  22. Banerjee, S.B. (2010). Governing the Global Corporation: A Critical Perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(2), pp. 265–274. doi:10.5840/beq201020219.
  23. Wittneben, B., Okereke, C., Banerjee, B. and Levy, D. (2010). Special Issue on Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes. Organization Studies, 31(4), pp. 505–507. doi:10.1177/0170840610373854.
  24. Wittneben, B., Okereke, C., Banerjee, B. and Levy, D. (2009). ‘Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes’. Organization Studies, 30(9), pp. 1013–1015. doi:10.1177/0170840609344025.
  25. Wittneben, B., Okereke, C., Banerjee, B. and Levy, D. (2009). Organization Studies Special Issue on. Organization Studies, 30(8), pp. 917–919. doi:10.1177/0170840609344026.
  26. Wittneben, B., Okereke, C., Banerjee, B. and Levy, D. (2009). `Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes'. Organization Studies, 30(7), pp. 813–815. doi:10.1177/0170840609106746.
  27. Bobby Banerjee, S. (2008). Necrocapitalism. Organization Studies, 29(12), pp. 1541–1563. doi:10.1177/0170840607096386.
  28. Bobby Banerjee, S. and Prasad, A. (2008). Introduction to the special issue on “Critical reflections on management and organizations: a postcolonial perspective”. Critical perspectives on international business, 4(2/3), pp. 90–98. doi:10.1108/17422040810869963.
  29. Mir, R., Bobby Banerjee, S. and Mir, A. (2008). Hegemony and its discontents: a critical analysis of organizational knowledge transfer. Critical perspectives on international business, 4(2/3), pp. 203–227. doi:10.1108/17422040810869990.
  30. Banerjee, S.B. (2008). Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Critical Sociology, 34(1), pp. 51–79. doi:10.1177/0896920507084623.
  31. Banerjee, S.B. and Linstead, S. (2006). Make that sixty-seven. Human Relations, 59(3), pp. 429–442. doi:10.1177/0018726706064183.
  32. Banerjee, S. (2006). Live and let die: Colonial sovereignties and the deathworlds of necrocapitalism. Borderlands, 5(1).
  33. Osuri, G. and Banerjee, B. (2004). White diasporas: media representations of September 11 and the unbearable whiteness of being in Australia. Social Semiotics, 14(2), pp. 151–171. doi:10.1080/1035033042000238277.
  34. Greene, S. (2004). Indigenous People Incorporated? Current Anthropology, 45(2), pp. 211–237. doi:10.1086/381047.
  35. Banerjee, S.B. and Linstead, S. (2004). Masking Subversion: Neocolonial Embeddedness in Anthropological Accounts of Indigenous Management. Human Relations, 57(2), pp. 221–247. doi:10.1177/0018726704042928.
  36. Banerjee, S. (2004). Re-inventing colonialism: Exploring the myth of sustainable development. Situation Analysis, 4, pp. 95–110.
  37. Banerjee, S.B., Iyer, E.S. and Kashyap, R.K. (2003). Corporate Environmentalism: Antecedents and Influence of Industry Type. Journal of Marketing, 67(2), pp. 106–122. doi:10.1509/jmkg.67.2.106.18604.
  38. Banerjee, S.B. (2003). Who sustains whose development? Sustainable development and the reinvention of nature. Organization Studies, 24(1), pp. 143–180. doi:10.1177/0170840603024001341.
  39. Banerjee, S.B. (2002). Corporate environmentalism: the construct and its measurement. Journal of Business Research, 55(3), pp. 177–191. doi:10.1016/s0148-2963(00)00135-1.
  40. Banerjee, S. (2002). Organizational strategies for sustainable development: Developing a research agenda for the new millennium. Australian Journal of Management, 27(1 Supplement), pp. 105–117.
  41. Banerjee, S.B. and Linstead, S. (2001). Globalization, Multiculturalism and Other Fictions: Colonialism for the New Millennium? Organization, 8(4), pp. 683–722. doi:10.1177/135050840184006.
  42. Banerjee, S.B. (2001). Managerial perceptions of corporate environmentalism: interpretations from industry and strategic implications for organizations. Journal of Management Studies, 38(4), pp. 489–513. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00246.
  43. Banerjee, S. (2001). Corporate citizenship and indigenous stakeholders: Exploring a new dynamic of organizational stakeholder relationships. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 1(1), pp. 39–55. doi:10.9774/GLEAF.4700.2001.sp.00007.
  44. Bobby Banerjee, S. (2001). Corporate environmental strategies and actions. Management Decision, 39(1), pp. 36–44. doi:10.1108/eum0000000005405.
  45. Banerjee, S.B. (2001). Managerial Environmental Attitudes and Corporate Environmentalism: A Preliminary Investigation. The Journal of Environmental Education, 32(4), pp. 49–50. doi:10.1080/00958960109598663.
  46. Banerjee, S. and Bloch, P. (2001). An involvement perspective on environmentally conscious consumption. Journal of the Australian New Zealand Academy of Management, 7(2), pp. 1–19.
  47. Banerjee, S.B. and Osuri, G. (2000). Silences of the media: whiting out Aboriginality in making news and making history. Media, Culture & Society, 22(3), pp. 263–284. doi:10.1177/016344300022003002.
  48. Banerjee, S.B. (2000). Whose Land Is It Anyway? National Interest, Indigenous Stakeholders, and Colonial Discourses. Organization & Environment, 13(1), pp. 3–38. doi:10.1177/1086026600131001.
  49. Banerjee, S.B. (1998). Corporate Environmentalism. Management Learning, 29(2), pp. 147–164. doi:10.1177/1350507698292002.
  50. Banerjee, S., Gulas, C.S. and Iyer, E. (1995). Shades of Green: A Multidimensional Analysis of Environmental Advertising. Journal of Advertising, 24(2), pp. 21–31. doi:10.1080/00913367.1995.10673473.
  51. Iyer, E. and Banerjee, S. (1993). Anatomy of green advertising. Advances in Consumer Research, 20, pp. 494–501.

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Professional activities

Editorial activity (4)

  1. Organization Studies, Senior Editor, 2009 – present.
  2. Organization, Member of Editorial Board, 2008 – present.
  3. Critical Perspectives on International Business, Member of Editorial Board, 2007 – present.
  4. Culture & Organization, Member of Editorial Board, 2004 – present.

Media appearances (4)

  1. The mismatch between indigenous communities and mining wealth. (2013) The Guardian (newspaper).
  2. Executive PhDs: Call me a doctor. (2013) The Economist (magazine).
  3. Cass opens new campus in the City of London. (2013) MBA24.
  4. Jeff Randall Show. (2013) Sky News (television).