June 16-20, 2025 | 9th edition of the Summer School series on Responsible Capitalism
Call for applications: December 2, 2024– February 20, 2025
In its ninth edition, the summer school aims at the development of ideas that promote a more sustainable future by bringing together young scholars from all over the world to discuss their ideas on the Grand Transition of our society from the microlevel of individual decision-making to the organizational and the societal level.
This year the summer school has been jointly coorganized with the Horizon Europe-UKRI “Rebalance” project on the relationship between capitalism and democracy (GA 101061342).
The school gives young scholars the opportunity to discuss with eminent scholars in management theory and to test their ideas and present their work. Participants will become familiar with recent research from a broad set of disciplines.
They will work on their ability to engage in the transdisciplinary discourse which is required for the development of innovative answers to grand sustainability challenges.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Rebalance project this year the school has the opportunity to add democracy among the grand challenges, and learn from leading scholars the ways in which business can undermine democratic principles, processes and values, or contribute to them through new business models.
Who is it for?
Applications are welcome from current PhD students, post-doc scholars and young researchers in Management, Strategy, Organization Theory, Finance, Economic Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, and related disciplines from universities worldwide. Applications from high level policy makers and officials in public and private institutions will be considered if their background is adequate.
Program theme
Our society is facing a legitimacy crisis. The accelerating ecological crisis, the growing gap between the rich and the poor as well as the systemic risks provoked by disconnected financial markets make it necessary to profoundly rethink our routines of production and consumption. While there is a growing awareness for the importance and urgency of radical change, deep processes of transformation usually face numerous institutional and psychological barriers that have to be overcome. As Jared Diamond described in his book “Collapse”, civilizations often react to a crisis of which they do not understand the causalities by reinforcing the routines that might have created the crisis in the first place. The VIU Summer School in 2025 will go beyond those routines, to reimagine pathways for the Grand Transition on which we have embarked on a planetary scale, and to reflect upon the radical change, both in what economic actors do, and how organization scholars theorize about it. We look forward to engaging in discussion with the young scholars in the Summer School.
Faculty
Giovanni Favero, Venice School of Management (VSM), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Elisa Giuliani, Università di Pisa, Italy
Anette Mikes, University of Oxford, UK
Guido Palazzo, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Scientific Coordinator)
Juliane Reinecke, University of Oxford, UK
Francesco Rullani, Venice School of Management (VSM), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Ruth Sealy, University of Exeter Business School, UK (Scientific Coordinator)
Christine Vallaster, University of Salzburg, Austria
Francesco Zirpoli, Venice School of Management (VSM), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (Scientific Coordinator)
Credits
A Certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the course.
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 2
The Program will admit 15 student participants.
Fees
Students of VIU member universities:
€ 250 incl. VAT
Students of other universities:
€ 500 incl. VAT
VIU Alumni are eligible for a reduced fee.
The fees will cover tuition, course materials, lunches in the VIU cafeteria and Social events.
Student participants will be responsible for covering their own travel expenses to and from Venice, accommodation and local transportation.
PhD candidates and post-docs from EU universities may be eligible for Erasmus+ mobility grant support. Candidates should consult the International Office in their own university for information about the calls for applications for funding. VIU will provide any supporting documentation requested for such applications.
Contact VIU Erasmus office: erasmus@univiu.org
Applicants must submit the application form, a letter of motivation which should include a research statement (max.1500 words), a curriculum vitae, a photo, and a short video presentation (2-3 minutes).
For further information, please download the brochure and the program or write to: summerschools@univiu.org
The Summer School is part of the activities of the REBALANCE project.
