Brown Bag Lunch with Anna Kim (Tuesday February 2nd)

Tea Time: Temporal Coordination for Sustainable Development

Featuring:  Anna Kim, Assistant Professor, HEC Montréal

Anna Kim will present the above paper, written by herself together with Tima Bansal (Ivey Business School), & Helen Haugh (University of Cambridge).  The previous version of this paper won the “Best Paper on Social and Environmental Practices” Award at the Academy of Management, OMT Division (2015).

Through a multi-sited ethnography of eight Fairtrade-certified tea producer organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, they examined the flows of needs and resources. They found that Fairtrade interventions, despite their emphasis on the long term, inadvertently trapped tea producers in the short term by overlooking the temporal realities of social and biophysical rhythms. Tea producers, however, were able to escape this trap by better coordinating the flows of needs and resources by making temporal connections.

Let’s see where the conversation takes us!

Date: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Location: Goodes Hall, Room 100

Bring your lunch!

RSVP (appreciated but not required): csi@queensu.ca