Schmidt Speaks at Workshop on Rethinking Politics in Organization
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke at a workshop on “Rethinking Politics in Organization” at the Copenhagen Business School from March 28-29, 2019.
At the workshop, Schmidt gave a presentation on “Politics and Organization in the Eurozone Crisis: Does the Politicization of Organizational Interaction Make for More or Less Legitimacy?”
Schmidt was one of three distinguished keynote speakers to present work as part of the launch of a three-year program of activities devoted to the development of politics in organization studies, or ‘organizational politics’. The speakers, including Schmidt, sketched out an issue they are currently working on and seminar participants further explored where organization studies might meet politics empirically and/or conceptually in the light of these sketches.
Participants worked with our speakers on one seminal text and explored questions chosen by each speaker to form focused discussion groups. The purpose of the workshop was to make connections between people interested in the broad area of politics and organization and to explore joint interests, develop concepts and novel perspectives, and build topics and reading lists for research and future seminars.
Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. She has published a dozen books, over 200 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a US-EU comparative study of the ‘rhetoric of discontent.’ She is a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor — France’s highest honor.