Dr Mick Blowfield
mick.blowfield [at] smithschool.ox.ac.uk
| Mick Blowfield has worked as an academic and consultant in the field of corporate social and environmental responsibility with a particular focus on the socio-political context of corporate responsibility, and the role of business in society. Building on extensive experience in international development, including living and working in twenty different countries, he began a critical examination of corporate responsibility in global supply chains in the late 1990s. He was principal investigator and programme manager for a portfolio of government and corporate-funded projects that analyzed the field of corporate responsibility in the context of developing countries. More recently he has worked with CEOs and other senior executives on the role of business as change agent in 21st century society. His current focus is business as an agent of change in the context of climate change. As well as a number of policy papers for the UK government, the European Commission, the United Nations, and the World Bank, Mick has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals for business and development audiences, and his Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Introduction was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. He is also a Teaching Fellow at London Business School and a Visiting Professor at Middlesex Business School. | 
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Recent publications
Blowfield, M.E. (in press) Business, corporate responsibility, and poverty. In: Utting & Marques (eds.) Business and Poverty. Palgrave MacMillan.
Blowfield, M.E. (in press) Conceptualising the business-poverty relationship. Law, Ethics and Economics.
Blowfield, M.E. (in process) Outsourcing governance: the perils of global corporate governance in the 21st century. Journal of Corporate Governance.
Blowfield, M.E. & Dolan, C.S. (in press) Fairtrade facts and fancies: what Kenyan Fairtrade tea tells us about business' role as development agent. Journal of Business Ethics.
Blowfield, M.E. (2009-) In the Shift [blog]. http://www.sseechange.com/blog.
Blowfield, M.E. (2009) Global warning: why corporate transformation in response to climate change is not happening. Business Strategy Review 20, 74-79 (Summer 2009).
Blowfield, M.E. (2009) Multi-stakeholder approaches to strategic change. In: Cunningham & Harney (eds.) Corporate Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Blowfield, M.E. (2008) Business and poverty – bridges and divides. Management Online REview. Available from http://www.morexpertise.com/download.php?id=114 [accessed 22 October 2009].