Professor Katy Mason: Making & Shaping Moral Markets

Markets are not just “out there” – they are made and shaped through our collective actions (and inactions). They are widely considered to be problematic, driving damaging behaviour: social divides have never been greater, while scientists remind us (with increasing regularity) that we are irreversibly damaging our planet through our commercial activity. Drawing on practice theory and market studies, this lecture presents insights from a 20-year exploration of how markets are made and shaped. It asks, what might we do to make moral markets? Using examples taken from projects on the commercialisation of science, digitally connected places, and the market for Santa Clause, we will explore how the purposive, accidental and mundane practices of distributed actors’ might be differently mobilised, generating new devices and rules that coordinate, collective action across organisational, policy and civic settings, for the good of people and planet.

Professor Katy Mason

Professor Katy Mason is PVC Dean and Professor of Markets & Management at the University of Salford. Her research examines how markets are made and shaped—especially how moral concerns become embedded in market infrastructures to deliver social, environmental and economic value. She has published in a number of leading journals, including Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, British Journal of Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, Long Range Planning and Academy of Management Learning & Education. Katy is President of the British Academy of Management, and Fellow of the British Academy of Management, the Academy of Social Sciences, the Cabinet Office (Policy Fellow) and a Chartered Companion of the CMI.

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