Tuesday February 09, 2010

Professor Janet Borgerson

BA (Philosophy) Michigan; MA, PhD (Philosophy) Wisconsin; Docent (Business Economics) Stockholm University; MA (Islamic Studies, distinction) Exon

Associate Professor in Philosophy and Management

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Janet Borgerson received her B.A. (Philosophy) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and M.A. and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison – writing a doctoral thesis on power and ethics under Professor Claudia Card. She completed postdoctoral work in existential phenomenology at Brown University and pursued further study in Bioethics at Harvard University School of Public Health.

Borgerson has served as Malmsten Visiting Professor in the Center for Consumer Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and Research Fellow at the Centre of Digital Enterprise, University of Auckland Business School. Since 2004, she has been a member of the Editorial Review Board of Consumption Markets and Culture. She has taught in the U.S., in England, France, Sweden, and Finland, and at the MBA, Executive, Ph.D., Master’s, and Undergraduate levels. Courses and seminars include: Ethical Issues in Marketing; Marketing Imagination; Philosophy and Leadership; Ethics in Organization; Philosophies of the Future: Innovation and Incompleteness; Ethical Issues of Business and Medicine; and Mapping Ontological Flows. She has formally studied a number of languages, including Italian, French, Chinese, Persian, Swedish, German, Hebrew and Modern Greek; and in 2007 completed a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies at Exeter, winning the University’s Tom Fattorini Prize. She currently is writing a book on Islamic philosophy and models of subject formation.

Borgerson has founded two annual student conferences at the University of Exeter Business School: ‘Exploring Consumer Experience’ (undergraduate) and ‘Exploring Ethical Issues in Business’ (MSc).

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Selected Publications

  1. Borgerson, JL (2010), 'Bad Faith and Epistemic Closure: Challenges in the Marketing Context', in Continental Philosophy and Business Ethics (Ten Bos, R and Painter-Morland, M (eds.)), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
  2. Borgerson, J (2010), 'Witnessing and Organization', Philosophy Today (forthcoming).
  3. Borgerson, J (2010), 'On Witnessing Global Ethics: A Case of International Health Research Involving Human Subjects', in Ethics in the Economy: Power and Principle in the Marketplace (Rendtorff, JD (ed.)), Ashgate (forthcoming).
  4. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, JL (2010), 'Packaging Paradise: Organizing Representations of Hawaii', in Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies (Prasad, A (ed.)), Copenhagen Business School Press (forthcoming).
  5. Borgerson, J (2009), 'Materiality and the comfort of things: drinks, dining, and discussion with Daniel Miller', Consumption, Markets and Culture, 12(2), pp. 155-170.
  6. Borgerson, J, Schroeder, JE, Escudero Magnusson, M and Magnusson, F (2009), 'Corporate Communication, Ethics, and Operational Identity: A Case Study of Benetton', Business Ethics Ð A European Review, 18, 3, pp. 209-223.
  7. Borgerson, J (2008), 'Poetry Lessons: On Organizing Creativity', Aesthesis, 2, 2, pp. 4-14.
  8. Borgerson, JL (2008), 'Review Essay: Phenomenology and Mysticism: Verticality in Religious Experience', Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism, 9, pp. 331-335.
  9. Borgerson, JL and Gustafsson, C (2008), 'Philosophy and Consumption: Discussions on Trust and Brands', Advances in Consumer Research, 35.
  10. Borgerson, JL (2008), 'Living Proof: Reflections on Irreplaceability', C.L.R. James Journal, Special issue on Lewis R. Gordon, 14: 1, pp. 269-283.
  11. Borgerson, JL and Schroeder, JE (2008), 'Building an Ethics of Visual Representation: Contesting Epistemic Closure in Marketing Communication', in Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Tradition (Painter-Morland, M and Werhane, PH (eds.)), New York, Springer-Verlag, pp. 87-108.
  12. Borgerson, JL (2007), 'On the Harmony of Feminist Ethics and Business Ethics', Business and Society Review, 112:4, pp. 477-509.
  13. Borgerson, JL (2007), 'Why Feminist Ethics?' in Philosophy and Organization (Jones, C and ten Bos, R (eds.)), London, Routledge, pp. 116-131.
  14. Borgerson, JL (2007), 'Judith Butler', entry in Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists (Scott, J (ed)), London, Routledge, pp. 47-51. 1
  15. Borgerson, JL, Schroeder, JE, Blomberg, B, Thorss én, E (2006), 'The Gay Family in the Ad: Representations of Non-Traditional Families in Advertising', Journal of Marketing Management, 22, pp. 955-978.
  16. Borgerson, JL (2006), 'Philosophy and Consumption', Advances in Consumer Research, 33, pp. 591-592.
  17. Borgerson, JL and Schroeder, JE (2006), 'The Pleasures of the Used Text: Revealing Traces of Consumption', in Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of Literature (Brown, S (ed.)), London, Routledge, pp. 46-59.
  18. Borgerson, JL, Escudero-Magnusson, M, Magnusson, F (2006), 'Branding Ethics: Negotiating Benetton's Identity and Image', in Brand Culture (Schroeder, J and Salzer-Mšrling, M (eds)), London and New York, Routledge, pp. 171-185.
  19. Borgerson, JL (2005), 'Judith Butler: On Organizing Subjectivities', Sociological Review, 53, October, pp. 63-79.
  20. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, JL (2005), 'An Ethics of Representation for International Marketing', International Marketing Review, 22(5), pp. 578-600.
  21. Borgerson, JL (2005), 'Materiality, Agency, and the Constitution of Consuming Subjects: Insights for Consumer Research', Advances in Consumer Research, 32, pp. 439-443.
  22. Borgerson, JL (2005), 'Addressing the Global Basic Structure in the Ethics of International Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects', Journal of Philosophical Research, special supplement, pp. 235-249.
  23. Rehn, A and Borgerson, JL (2005), 'Is there a Cannibal in Organization Studies?', Culture and Organization, 11(2), pp. 69-81.
  24. Borgerson, JL and Schroeder, JE (2005), 'Identity in Marketing Communications: An Ethics of Visual Representation', in Marketing Communication: Emerging Trends and Developments (Kimmel, AJ (ed)), Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 256-277.
  25. Borgerson, JL (2005), 'Animality', in Organize! Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow (Jones, C and O'Doherty, D (eds)), Åbo, Finland, Dvalin Press, pp. 10-13. 2
  26. Borgerson, JL (2005), 'Ressentiment and the Desire for Power: Further Reflections on the Phenomenology of Oppression', in Philosophy of Emotion (Carlsson, A (ed)), Stockholm, Thales Press, pp. 193-204.
  27. Borgerson, J and Rehn, A (2004), 'General Economy and Productive Dualisms', Gender, Work, and Organization, 11(4), pp. 455-474.
  28. Edenius, M and Borgerson, J (2003), 'To Manage Knowledge by Intranet', Journal of Knowledge Management, 7(5), pp. 124-136.
  29. Borgerson, J (2003), 'Review Essay: The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-organization and Ethics', Organization Studies, 24(8), pp. 1359-1363.
  30. Borgerson, J (2003), 'Contesting Linguistic Capital, Resisting Pedagogic Work', Radical Philosophy Review, 5(1/2), pp. 176-185.
  31. Borgerson, JL and Schroeder, JE (2003), 'The Lure of Paradise: Marketing the Retro-escape of Hawaii', in Time, Space and the Market: Retroscapes Rising (Brown, S and Sherry, JF (eds.)), New York, M.E. Sharpe, pp. 219-237.
  32. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, JL (2003), 'Dark Desires: Fetishism, Representation, and Ontology in Contemporary Advertising', in Sex in Advertising: Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal (Reichert, T and Lambiase, J (eds.)), Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 65-87.
  33. Borgerson, J and Schroeder, JE (2002), 'Ethical Issues in Global Marketing: Avoiding Bad Faith in Visual Representation', European Journal of Marketing 36(5/6), pp. 570-594.
  34. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, J (2002), 'Innovations in Information Technology: Insights into Consumer Culture from Italian Renaissance Art', Consumption, Markets, & Culture, 5(2), pp. 153-169.
  35. Borgerson, J (2002), 'Managing Desire: Heretical Transformation in Pasolini's Medea', Consumption, Markets, & Culture, 5(1), pp. 55-62.
  36. Borgerson, J (2001), 'Feminist Ethical Ontology: Contesting the 'Bare Givenness of Intersubjectivity'', Feminist Theory, 2 (2), pp. 173-189.
  37. Borgerson, J (2001), 'Genius of the Heart: Ontological Reflections on Mozart's Don Giovanni', in Don Juan ou le feu du désir (Blanc, E (ed.)), University of Nice, Nice, France, pp. 83-87.
  38. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, J (2001), Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship edited by David A. Crocker and Toby Linden, Journal of Consumer Affairs, 35 (2), 390-394.
  39. Coviello, J and Borgerson, JL (1999), 'Tracing Parallel Oppressions: A Feminist Ontology of Women and Animals," Feminista! , vol. 3(4).
  40. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, JL (1999), 'Packaging Paradise: Consuming Hawaii', Advances in Consumer Research, 26, pp. 46-50.
  41. Borgerson, JL (1999), 'Ressentiment and Power: A Clarification', American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 99:1(2), pp. 2-3.
  42. Schroeder, JE and Borgerson, JL (1998), 'Marketing Images of Gender: A Visual Analysis', Consumption, Markets, & Culture 2(2), pp. 161-201.
  43. Borgerson, JL and Schroeder, JE (1997), 'The Ethics of Representation: Race and Gender in Images of Hawaii', Cooley Law Review 14:3, pp. 473- 489.