IGR-IAE Rennes is pleased to invite you to the Managing for Care, Managing by Care day on May 22 in the Amphitheater Jane Aubert Krier or remotely from 9:30 a.m.

This event, co-organised by IGR-IAE and Rennes School of Business, will take place on May 22 (IGR-IAE) and 23 (RSB).

This event is sponsored by RSB, RSB-CUT (Rennes School of Business, RSB), CREM UMR CNRS 6211 (University of Rennes), IGR-IAE, University School of Management, Rennes Métropole and Région Bretagne.

IGR-IAE Rennes & Rennes School of Business – May 22 & 23

The aim of these two days of presentations and discussion is to develop an agenda for how we can manage, practice, research and write about care differently.

Through a series of provocations and practical examples our invited speakers will present empirical examples and conceptual understanding of how care can be (better) managed and how we can manage (better) through and by care. Taking examples of projects already undertaken and our own experiences of care or lack of care (care-less-ness), we discuss and present different approaches to researching and writing about care. The discussions will focus on both formal and informal care contexts, self-care and collective care. 

May 22 – 9:30 / 4:30 – IGR-IAE Rennes

9:30 – 10:00 – Welcome Reception
Hélène Rainelli-Weiss (IGR-IAE Rennes, University of Rennes), Dean of IGR-IAE, University of Rennes & Patrick Valeau (IGR-IAE Rennes, University of Rennes & CREM UMR 6211 CNRS), Dean of CREM UMR CNRS (Centre for Research in Economics and Management) and the convenors: Sarah Robinson (Convenor, RSB Deputy Director Research and Director of CUT) and Caroline Ruiller (IGR-IAE Rennes, University of Rennes)

Paper Presentations

10:00 – 10:30 – Anne Antoni (Grenoble School of Management). ‘About Care & Management:  Why does it matter?’

10:45 – 11:15 – Ilaria Boncori (University of Essex). ‘Researching & Writing Care differently: How can we change it?’

11:30 – 12:15 – Caroline Demeyere (Leuven Catholic University) & Stéphanie Havet-Laurent (INSEEC Grande Ecole). ‘Dare to Care: emotional solidarity at the service of other organisations.’

12:30 – 2:00 – Lunch & walk at the Thabor Gardens.

2:15 – 2:45 – Marjana Johannson (University of Glasgow) & Sarah Robinson (Rennes School of Business). ‘Wellbeing as Care, Care as Wellbeing? Reading organisational wellbeing initiatives through an ethic of care. 

3:00 – 3:30 – Carole Elliott (University of St Andrews Business School) & Diane Burns (Sheffield University Management School). ‘Decent work through AI-driven platform care? Potential benefits of interdisciplinary researching and co-design for long-term care in the UK, Sweden and Finland’.

3:45 – 4:30 – Managing for care, managing by care: sharing of thoughts and understandings from Day 1′.

4:30 – Research break for speakers: an opportunity to reflect on future writing collaborations and draft out some first steps.

7:30 – Speakers’ Dinner – Crêperie St Melaine (joint event with FMCO-CUT-CDF research seminar – Care: Sustainability and Gender).

May 23 – 9:30 / 4:30 – RSB Rennes

9:30 – 10:00 – Welcome Reception, tea and coffee time.

Paper Presentations

9:30 – 10:00 – Lucy Taksa (Deakin University). ‘Research care differently?: a review of qualitative scholarship between 2001 and 2005 focused on representations of older migrants’.

10:15 – 10:45 – Sarah Robinson (Rennes School of Business), Caroline Ruiller (IGR-IAE Rennes, University of Rennes), Christophe Vignon (IGR-IAE Rennes, University of Rennes), Valérie Petit (ESSCA). ‘Spiral and relational writing on organisational violence: what can we ‘do’ with our vulnerabilities, and how can we ‘use’ then with a cathartic approach to embodying care activism in academia?’

11:00 – 11:30 – Ilaria Boncori (University of Essex). ‘An auto-ethography reflection: combining management & work-life resistance as a professional ontology?’

11:45 – 12:15 – Marjana Johannson (University of Glasgow). ‘Care and writing differently: agenda setting – reflections from the cutlure & organisation special issue’.

12:15 – 2:00 – Lunch & Visit to the Art Gallery (FRAC).

Provocations

2:00 – 2:45 – Jean-François Chanlat (Emeritus Professor at Paris Dauphine-PSL University, Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes). ‘Provocation: from Homo Anthropologicus to Homines Curans – Implications for Management and Management’.

3:00 – 4:30 – Managing for care, managing by care: final reflections, take-aways and ways forward.

4:30 – Closure of the even