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Irene Skovgaard Smith is an Associate Professor in Organisational Anthropology at the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. She holds a PhD from Copenhagen Business School and a Master’s in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on social relations within organisations, particularly processes of identity formation, moral disengagement, transnationalism, and mobility. She is a member of the Employment Systems and Institutions research group and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Ethnography.
Her work examines how organisations suspend ethical accountability, construct alterity, and manage transnational dynamics. Key themes include organisational moral disengagement, cosmopolitan identity, and the impact of globalisation on workplace relations. She has conducted fieldwork in diverse settings, including Scandinavian consulting firms and multinational corporations.
Recent research highlights include studies on the Grenfell Tower cladding scandal’s organisational ethics failures and pandemic-era cross-border immobility patterns. Her methodologies emphasize ethnographic approaches, combining immersive fieldwork with sociological theory.
Irene has been a visiting researcher at the University of Turku and actively contributes to peer review for journals such as Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Classical Sociology. Her work has been widely cited in both academic and media contexts, addressing topics like post-Brexit academic experiences and the human impact of travel restrictions.
