Our Associates: Scott Taylor

Scott Taylor joined the School in April 2013. He previously worked at Essex, Exeter, and Loughborough universities, and at Birmingham from 2002 to 2007. He has visited and taught at the universities of Auckland, Delhi, GFV-EAESP Sao Paolo, Jeddah, Melbourne and Lapland. Scott is currently a Section Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics.

Working out of the Department of Management at Birmingham Business School, Scott’s research currently focuses on feminism in organisations. Current projects include the use of quotas to change women’s representation in political parties, and women working in the craft brewing sector.

The responsible business agenda is central to all of the research and teaching that Scott does, because it encourages us to see business as inevitably embedded in society, rather than as separate from or parallel to all of our other worlds.

The social responsibility of business to people, and of societies to businesses, are integral to Scott's research in two main areas: first, in understanding the revival of craft as a way of finding meaning in work and making a social contribution at the same time, and second, in asking whether leadership can be different from the male, masculine norm we currently see in many organisations.

The Centre for Responsible Business has enabled Scott to reach wider communities through annual conferences and regular workshops, and to work more closely with colleagues at the university.