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Management scholar Ana Maria Peredo to discuss Indigenous community-based organizing

Part of URI Honors Colloquium ‘Not Business As Usual: Business for the Common Good’

Management scholar Ana Maria Peredo will discuss Indigenous community-based organizing for the common good at URI’s fall Honors Colloquium on Oct. 31.

KINGSTON, R.I. – Oct. 26, 2023 – The University of Ottowa’s Ana Maria Peredo will discuss community and rethinking business for the common good at the 2023 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Peredo is a critical management scholar working on various social justice issues at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Previously, she taught at the University of Victoria.

Peredo will speak at 7 p.m. at Edwards Hall on the Kingston Campus, as part of the University’s fall Honors Colloquium, “Not Business As Usual: Business for the Common Good.” The talk will also be streamed live (video links are available the day of each event, at the link above).

In her work, Peredo focuses on three areas: alternative organizations and solidarity economies, Indigenous economies and decolonization, and alternative futures.

Her concerns for social justice and poverty alleviation are rooted in her experiences growing up and working with Indigenous communities in her homeland, Peru. Building on her background in anthropological and international development and learnings from Indigenous teachings, Peredo’s research contributes to understanding how communities in the Global South and the Global North mobilize their own resources to create local and sustainable well-being. She argues for a re-conception of entrepreneurship to increase its potential for social benefit by recognizing communities as entrepreneurs and a plurality of goals advancing community well-being.

Her work has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Peasant Studies, and the Journal of World Business, among others. She is co-coordinator of a standing group on system change in the European Group of Organizational Studies. Peredo also recently founded the International Academy of Indigenous Research in Management and Organization to encourage emergent scholars to bring Indigenous knowledge into management studies.

The URI Honors Colloquium is free and open to the public. Hosted by URI’s Honors Program, this is the University’s premier lecture series and marks the centennial of the College of Business. Lectures will be held Tuesday evenings through Dec. 5, and will also be available online. Learn more about the fall colloquium. Register for updates here or email urihonors@etal.uri.edu.