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Sub-theme 45:

Global Organizations and the Creative (De-)Construction of Expertise

 

Convenors:

Dieter Plehwe
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) (Germany)
plehwe@wzb.eu

Tor Halvorsen
University of Bergen (Norway)
tor.halvorsen@aorg.uib.no

Diane Stone
University of Warwick (UK)
diane.stone@warwick.ac.uk

Asunción Lera St. Clair
University of Bergen (Norway)
asun.st.clair@iuh.uib.no


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
International Organizations, Knowledge and Education

Roser Cussó
International expertise and transformation of democracy: The use of indicators and data analysis in education

Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg
The OECD and expert advice on university reform: An ideological double shuffle across a national/international interface

Tor Halvorsen
Towards knowledge societies? Whose knowledge – for whom?
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
International Organization, Knowledge and Re-regulation

João Antonio de Souza e Silva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray and Sylvia Constant Vergara
Humanitarian reform: Deconstructing the concept that the UN is the best implementer of humanitarian response in Camp Coordination/Camp Management

Sebastian Botzem
Formalizing the rules of the transnational game: Procedural legitimacy in accounting standardisation
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
International Organization, Corporations and Philanthropy

Andreas Rasche and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert
Upsetting traditional governance. How the United Nations global compact links actors and levels

Dieter Plehwe
Free to wreck the world? The role of corporate foundations in the rise of neoliberal hegemony
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Corporate Social Responsibility

Kristina Tamm Hallström
The power and role of expertise. The case of the ISO 26000 process

Juliane Reinecke
Standard setting for the certification revolution: The production of ethical certainty

Ana Guedes and Alex Faria
Deciphering corporate social responsibility in emerging economies: An exploratory investigation in Brazil
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Europe, Experts and Knowledge: Execution and Transformation of Governance

Kathrin Böhling
Beyond knowledge-formation: Learning from experts in the European Commission

Laura Horn
Bringing in the experts. Transnational expert groups in corporate governance and financial market regulation in the European Union
 

– no Session VI –
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Contesting/Bolstering Hegemonic Expertise

Diane Stone
RAPID knowledge: 'Bridging research and policy' at the overseas development institute

Marion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh
Choosing the knowledge we carry: Contesting hegemonic managerialism

Convenors
Conclusion – Global Organization and Expertise Perspectives for EGOS 2009: 'Passion for Creativity and Innovation

 

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