Mark Brown
Førsteamanuensis - Institutt for kommunikasjon og kultur
Biografi
Change of career from business to teaching. 1994 to 1997 I completed the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English at the University of Oslo while working part-time as a teacher. First full-time position in tertiary education was at the Norwegian Police Academy (Politihøgskolen) 1998 - 2000, then the BI Norwegian Business School, first temporary then permanent from 2004. I was given three years leave of absence from BI in order to take a temporary three-year research position in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo between 2005 and 2008. My PhD thesis has the title Managing Nature - Business as Usual: Patterns of wording and patterns of meaning in corporate environmental discourse. I defended it successfully in June 2008 and returned to my position at BI.
Research areas
Research interests combine language with business and the environment. My Master's thesis in 1997 was on the Kentucky farmer and poet: Wendell Berry, and explores his interpretation of the central American idea of self reliance as a function of a life within the constraints of community. In my PhD thesis I compared patterns in the wording of texts produced by (a) 'green' business corporations in Britain and (b) British-based environmental NGOs. The differences in patterning in the language point, I argue, to differences in the way in which the natural landscape is conceptualised by these two different communities of practice.
Teaching areas
I teach on the two Bachelor-level communication courses in English at BI: SPÅ 2901 Intercultural Communication in English - Business Cultures and Ethical Dilemmas and SPÅ 2902 Intercultural Communication in English - Negotiations and Presentations.
Publikasjoner
Alm, Kristian & Brown, Richard Mark (2020)
John Rawls' concept of the reasonable: A study of stakeholder action and reaction between British Petroleum and the victims of the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico
Journal of Business Ethics Doi: 10.1007/s10551-020-04474-9 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Brown, Richard Mark & Alm, Kristian (2016)
Tillit til sannheten. En utfordring for BBC.
Alm, Kristian; Brown, Richard Mark & Røyseng, Sigrid (red.). Kommunikasjon og ytringsfrihet i organisasjoner
Alm, Kristian; Brown, Richard Mark & Røyseng, Sigrid (2016)
Kommunikasjon og ytringsfrihet i organisasjoner
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Brown, Richard Mark (2015)
Managing nature-business as usual: Resource extraction companies and their representations of natural landscapes
Sustainability, 7(12), s. 15900- 15922. Doi: 10.3390/su71215791
Brown, Richard Mark (2013)
From Classroom to Digital Arena in Seeking Higherlevel Learning: Student Experience
Seminar.net - Media, technology and lifelong learning, 9(1)
Brown, Richard Mark & Alm, Kristian (2017)
John Rawls' concept of the reasonable - a key to Stakeholder Dialogue. British Petroleum's compensation for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
[Academic lecture]. European Business Ethics Network EBEN Annual Conference.
Brown, Richard Mark & Alm, Kristian (2016)
Stakeholder Dialogue and Rawls' Reasonable Disagreement
[Academic lecture]. EBEN Research Conference 2016.
Brown, Richard Mark (2015)
The organization as whistle-blower: safeguarding organizational freedom of expression in order to safeguard society's freedom of expression
[Academic lecture]. EBEN Research Conference 2015.
Brown, Richard Mark (2015)
"Business - nature relations: from nature incorporated to Nature Inc"
[Academic lecture]. EBEN Research Conference 2015.
Brown, Richard Mark (2015)
Learning Lab Pilot Programme 2014-2015: Work Package 1 (Mark Brown and Siân Griffith) - Report of Steering Group on the Audio Slides Project
[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI.
År | Akademisk institusjon | Grad |
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2008 | University of Oslo | Ph.D. |
1997 | University of Oslo | Master Cand. Philol. |
1995 | University of Oslo | Bachelor |
1982 | Imperial College, University of London | Master |
År | Arbeidsgiver | Tittel |
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2008 - Present | BI Norwegian Business School | Associate Professor |
2005 - 2008 | University of Oslo | PhD Candidate |
2004 - 2004 | BI Norwegian Business School | Senior Lecturer |
2001 - 2003 | BI Norwegian Business School | Lecturer |
1998 - 2000 | Norwegian Police University College | Lecturer |
1991 - 1997 | Assorted language schools | Free-lance teacher |
1990 - 1991 | Touchstone Computers | Sales Manager |
1989 - 1990 | Ram Computer Group | New Business Sales Manager |
1983 - 1988 | IBM (UK) Ltd | Key Account Sales Representative |