Denise Fletcher

Rights Lab Visiting Professor in Business and Economies

Dr Denise Fletcher is a Visiting Professor with the Rights Lab's Business and Economies Programme and also Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Luxembourg. She focuses on the roles and responsibilities of organisations in effecting a more equitable and inclusive society and the extent to which human rights issues and sustainability concerns are changing the business-society interface and encouraging entrepreneurs and managers to act in responsible ways. Drawing from organisation theory, intersectionality and the ethics of care, her current projects include: an analysis of modern slavery and its discursive construction in the business and management field; studies of anti-slavery organisations as they develop strategies to disrupt the market conditions that enable enslavement or human trafficking to persist; and co-authored work developing a policy-theory synthesis on deceptive recruitment to show how, despite policy initiatives on Fair Recruitment, this is central to the enmeshment regimes used in the organisation of labour for exploitation.