The International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management International Forum
Business and management scholarship for social good
2nd December 2025 I 11:00 - 12:50 CET (10:00 - 11:50 GMT)
Location: Zoom
Description
The International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) are delighted to invite all of our members to join us for an International Forum webinar on 2nd December 2025 from 11am-12.50pm CET.
Our theme, Business and management scholarship for social good encourages IFSAM members to contemplate the business school as a propellant of social mobility. Through panel discussions and a ‘Q&A’ session with participants, we will invite critical reflection on the ways in which we can work towards this goal through our research, teaching and scholarship.
In recognition of IFSAM’s 35th anniversary we will also introduce a specially curated ‘IFSAM 35th Anniversary Memory Booklet’ to mark the occasion.
Provider Information
This event is staged by the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM)
Who should attend?
As BAM is a member organisation of IFSAM, this event is free, and open to all BAM members.
Guest Speaker
Prof Alessia Contu
Alessia Contu is Professor of Management at the University of Massachusetts, USA. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, an MA from Lancaster University, UK, and a Doctor of Psychology degree from the University of Cagliari, Italy.
Prior to joining UMass, she held academic positions at Lancaster University and Warwick Business School. From 2014 to 2021, Alessia served as Chair of the Management Department at the UMass College of Management, Boston. Her multidisciplinary research explores ethics, institutional and organizational politics, resistance, control, and inequities in management, organizational, and educational practices.
She has published in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Review. Alessia currently serves as Editor for Critical Studies and Business Ethics at the Journal of Business Ethics, and previously held the role of Associate Editor for Human Relations and Organization. S
he co-directs the Centre for Innovative Teaching at UMass and co-convenes the annual PHILOS Colloquium. In these roles - and as Commissioner for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement in her city - Alessia actively supports engaged scholarship and promotes responsible management and leadership. Her current empirical projects focus on equality, inclusion, and belonging across education, entrepreneurship, and arts management.
Jeroo Billimoria
Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with over thirty years’ experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll Awardee, Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her previous organizations are Child and Youth Finance International, Aflatoun International, Childline India and Child Helpline International, which have helped enable the financial inclusion and protection of children and youth in more than 180 countries.
Jeroo is the founder of One Family Foundation, which is currently incubating the Government Council of Social Innovation (GCSI) and other major initiatives, and is Board Chair Emiratus at Catalyst Now and a Board member at WINGS.
Prof Sophie Bacq
Sophie Bacq is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and holds the Coca-Cola Foundation Chair in Sustainable Development at IMD. A globally recognized thought leader in social entrepreneurship, Sophie was named to the 2024 Thinkers50 Radar list and recognized among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University.
Her research, published in top-tier management and entrepreneurship journals, has received multiple best paper awards from Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing and Journal of Management Studies, and the 2019 Academy of Management Emerging Scholar Award.
A member of several Editorial Review Boards (AMJ, ETP, JOM), Sophie is Co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Business Venturing. She co-directs The Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference and teaches the Social Entrepreneurship Doctoral Seminar.
Event Fee
This event is free for all to attend, however attendees are encouraged to become Members of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management and the British Academy of Management.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.