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Professor Laura Spence

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

International Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

Saïd Business School

PGC Teaching & Learning in HE, PhD (Brunel), International Business Masters Exchange Programme Diploma (Rotterdam School of Management), BSc (Bath)

Laura J. Spence is Professor of Business Ethics and Sustainability at King’s College London. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, she is a member of the Centre for Sustainable Business at King’s Business School and is an expert on the social and ethical aspects of business in relation to global challenges such as social injustice, climate change and inequalities.

Laura uses organization, social and ethical theory in her work, favouring critical perspectives. Her empirical studies tend to reach beyond standard large corporations, to include small and medium sized enterprises, supply chains, and the global south. She prefers to work across disciplines and has published in journals such as Accounting Organizations and Society, British Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Human Relations, and Organization Studies.

Professor Spence is a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, and co-author of the market-leading textbook Business Ethics (Oxford University Press). At Oxford University, Laura is an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation and Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College.