IVEY RESEARCH SERIES EVENT
Presented by the Strategy Group | Hosted by Oana Branzei and Krista Pettit
November 4-5, 2024, Ivey Business School
Speakers: Paula Jarzabkowski and Ann Mische
This research event will share cutting-edge research and engage in conversations with Dr. Paula Jarzabkowski and Dr. Ann Mische about how organizations create value and navigate uncertain futures. We will focus on uncertainty related to climate-induced disasters and systemic change.
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Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor, Practice and Process Studies Research Hub Lead & Professor in Strategy School of Business The University of Queensland (AUS) and City, University of London (U.K.)
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is a global expert in the public-private mechanisms proliferating around the world to address the insurance protection gap. The insurance protection gap is the economic loss from catastrophic events that is not insured. In advanced economies, the burden of paying for recovery from disasters then falls upon the government and taxpayers. In low-income countries, disaster recovery sets back economic gains by decades affecting the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people.
Currently, Paula is researching the changing nature of terrorism risk and how we can remain financially resilient to risks such as civil unrest, cyber-attack, explosive threats, or lone attacker events; how we can reconfigure the insurance market around sharing the risk of climate change, with a particular Australian focus on flood and cyclone risk; and how innovations in disaster risk financing, such as disaster liquidity insurance, can be used to support climate adaptation and response.
Paula is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management and a Fellow of the British Academy. Paula is a member of the Expert Advisory Group, Pool Reinsurance Company UK; a Board Member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) High Level Advisory Board for the Financial Management of Catastrophic Risks; and has been Co-Chair of the Expert Advisory Group of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, Centre for Global Disaster Protection.
Ann Mische, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies; Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Affairs (U.S.)
Professor Ann Mische’s research focuses on communication, deliberation, and leadership in social movements and democratic politics. She has examined these processes in her study of Brazilian youth politics during re-democratization as well as in her work on anti-partisanship in recent global protest waves. Currently, she is working on a book on the role of futures thinking and foresight methodologies in social and political change efforts across global networks focused on democracy, development, peacebuilding and climate change. Mische is a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
In her first book, Partisan Publics (Princeton 2009), Mische drew upon extensive ethnography and formal network analysis to explain the involvement of young activists through intersecting civic and political networks. Her second co-authored book, Measuring Culture (Colulmbia 2020), takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of social interaction to neuroscience and computational social science. In her third book Futures in Contention (in progress), she examines how cultural technologies for future-oriented deliberation are being used in transnational debates and interventions related to democratic governance, social and economic inequality, political violence, and environmental degradation.
This book builds on Mische’s previous theoretical work on how cultural construction of the future influences actions, relations, and political process (American Journal of Sociology 1998; Sociological Forum 2009; Theory and Society 2014). Mische's articles on the Brazilian case have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Poetics, the International Review of Social History, and several edited volumes, including Social Movements and Networks (Oxford, 2003). She has also written broader theoretical articles on agency, culture, temporality, relational sociology, and social interaction, appearing in the Annual Review of Sociology, Social Research, the Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (2011), the Oxford Handbook of Social Movements (2015), the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2018), and The New Pragmatist Sociology (2023). Mische has served as chair of three sections of the American Sociological Association: Sociology of Culture (2021-22), Political Sociology (2013-14) and Theory (2007-08).