Values against violence by Guido Palazzo, Professor of University of Lausanne - Conference ESSEC

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"Values against violence: institutional change in societies dominated by organized crime”
Abstract:
Institutions that are controlled by organized crime are particularly change-resistant. Sicilian society, for instance, has been dominated by the Mafia for more than 150 years. Our paper presents the results of a longitudinal study of Addiopizzo, an anti-Mafia organization founded in Sicily in 2004. We examine how a group of young activists used values to successfully challenge one of the key institutions of the Sicilian society: Pizzo - the practice of paying protection money to the Mafia - which is a key pillar of the Mafia’s territorial power. Our paper demonstrates the performative power of values in contexts where institutions are highly resistant to change. (Please find the attached full paper)
About the speaker: Prof. Dr. Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He graduated in Business Administration at the University of Bamberg (Germany) and earned his PhD in Political Philosophy (1999) from the University of Marburg (Germany). His research interests are in Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Branding, Democratic Theory, and Organizational Ethics. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Academy of Management Review. He is member of the editorial boards of Business Ethics Quarterly and Business & Society. You can go to this link of his personal academic hompage or this link of the school webpage if you know more about him and his works.