Book launch: Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility Cut-Throat competition?

Paolo D’ Anselmi in conversation with Heather Yaxley

to launch his book

Value and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility

Cut-Throat Competition?

By Paolo D’ Anselmi, published by Palgrave Mcmillan 2011

Tuesday December 6, 7:00 pm

Italian Culture Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X8NX

More information about the book here: http://bit.ly/tsu98M

Paolo will be also speaking at De Montfort University on the following day (7 December) at 12.30pm. For full details email Prof. David Crowther at davideacrowther@aol.com

Call for papers 11th International Conference on CSR

11th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

 8 – 10 May 2012

Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland

For our 11th conference in this series we will be visiting Finland where the conference will be held in Lahti and hosted by Lahti University of Applied Sciences. It will be organised by Faculty of Business Studies, Lahti University of Applied Sciences and in conjunction with the Social Responsibility Research Network (SRRNet).

 Call for Papers

As usual the conference is intended to be interdisciplinary and welcomes contributions from anyone who has a perspective on this important issue. This time we will be focusing on one of the most urgent issues of the present. So at this conference there will be a focus on the theme of

CSR and Risk Management

In the CSR literature, Corporate Social Responsibility is often associated with the risk management. In practice, CSR has become increasingly important part of the corporate risk management. For example in The Ernst & Young Business Risk Report 2010, social acceptance risk and CSR was mentioned as one of the top 10 risks for business. From corporate risk management point of view, it is important that we do responsible things but also that we do things responsibly. Thus the conference is not focused only on risks associated with different CSR dimensions and activities but also CSR as a part of responsible management, especially a part of responsible risk management. The key question is not only how negative CSR impacts can be minimised but also how CSR opportunities can be maximised and CSR used as a value enhancing concept. Additionally there will be a special focus on the relationship between CSR, business ethics and management related criminality. Although the conference will be focused on CSR and Risk Management, papers addressing all other areas of CSR are welcome. Thus papers are welcome on any topic related to this broad theme and suggested topics for papers include:

• Risks and different dimensions of CSR
• Risks associated with CSR activities
• CSR and business risks (e.g. compliance, financial, strategic and operational threats)
• CSR and business ethics
• Responsibility management
• CSR and management systems
• Reputation management and risk
• Corporate governance and risk management
• Risk assessment and management
• Evaluating CSR activities
• Risk communication, communicating CSR risks
• CSR reporting and risk management
• Responsibility assurance and auditing
• Risk of irresponsibility
• Relationship between CSR and corporate performance
• CSR and value creation
• CSR and management related criminality (e.g. grey economy and corruption, white-collar crime)

Offers to run workshops, symposia, poster sessions, themed tracks or alternative events are especially welcome. Please contact Ulla Kotonen with suggestions.

Although preference will be given to full papers, abstracts of 200-500 words will also be considered. All papers and abstracts should be sent by 10th January 2012 by email to  David Crowther. No more than 2 papers will be accepted from any author.

We will publish proceedings and full details concerning other publishing opportunities for the papers presented at the conference will be provided during the conference.

Doctoral Colloquium

This year we will again be running a doctoral colloquium on one day of the conference. The aim will be to give detailed feedback to doctoral researchers concerning their papers. Feedback will be specific to each person and their research, and will be given by an experienced academic in the field. The colloquium will be an integral part of the conference and all delegates will be expected to participate fully in the conference but the sessions will give extra time to presenters – to allow for discussion and formal feedback. This colloquium will be organised by Professor Dr Güler Aras and abstracts of 200-500 words should be sent by 10th January 2012 by email to Guler Aras. In order to allow detailed feedback full papers will be required in advance of the conference – full details will be given to participants upon acceptance.

Following the tradition established at the 6th conference in Kuala Lumpur, a Young Academician award will be made during this colloquium.

Venue of the Conference

The conference will be held in the Lahti University. The conference fee will be announced later and will include accommodation, meals and conference materials. An optional sightseeing tour will be organised at the end of the conference; full details will be available later. We look forward to welcoming you to Finland in 2012 for the 11th conference in the series. Full and updated details can be found at the conference website.

Dr Ulla Kotonen, Conference Chair, Lahti University, Finland Professor

Dr David Crowther, Chair of SRRNet, De Montfort University, UK

Professor Dr Güler Aras, Chair of SRRNet , Yildiz Technical University , Turkey.

Another offer for Network members

From now until the end of 2011, Social Responsibility Journal will be freely accessible via the Emerald website. Anyone wishing to access the journal should log-in to the Emerald website www.emeraldinsight.com   See details info in your email. 

 

 

 

 

Once logged in, SRJ issues should be freely accessible via the journal’s homepage

Latest issue of Social Responsibility Review

The latest issue of Social Responsibility Review is available. As usual it contains some interesting articles and the writers would like your feedback. The Review can  be found on our website. I hope you enjoy reading it. And please pass a copy to anyone who you think might be interested.

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers on Sustainable Innovation for Enhancing Global Competitiveness in Asian Countries

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers on Sustainable Innovation for Enhancing Global Competitiveness in Asian Countries 

International Conference on Sustainable Innovation (ICoSi 2012) and 3^rd International Joint- Seminar (IJS 2012). 19-21 March 2012, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Background

The era of globalization beginning from the second half of the twentieth century is largely characterized by tremendous changes in physical appearance of human achievements, and these changes evidently remain continue. This is especially demonstrated by breakthroughs in science and technology which constitute a backbone of the modern civilization. While rapid progress of technology gives impetus to vast industrialization that significantly contributes to economic growth of a country, the focus on the short-term economic growth has led to the world’s malaises such as macroeconomic imbalances; moral decadence, family breakthrough; growing inequality and environmental destruction.

To overcome the problems, mutual understanding among nations and countries, and thus among civilizations must be developed by considering inner capacity of every localities and developing the world based on ethical values. Regional consideration in terms of cultural differences, political platform of a country, economic achievements, environmental resources, social capital and the like obtain significance in the regard.

Asian countries can take productive roles as they have shifted from just a home of cheap labor and programming skills to a powerhouse of economic growth generated by innovation in technology. The venture is how Asian countries wisely gear those opportunities to the design and implementation of more sound and sustainable innovation to elevate the Asian countries’ competitive advantages.

Conference Themes

The main theme of the conference is “Sustainable innovation for Enhancing Global Competitiveness in Asian Countries”.

The conference welcomes conceptual and research-based papers related to the following sub-themes:

1. Enhancement of innovative and effective government in cross cultural and religious perspective
2. Policy innovation, mass media, educational and legal governance issues
3. Roles of technology in supporting good governance
4. Energy conservation in information technology
5. Sustainable and conservation issues in built environment
6. Innovation is Islamic economies, banking and financial system
7. Roles of agriculture in food and energy security
8. Trend in agriculture and environment sustainability
9. Enhancing environmental quality in food production
10. Sustainable innovation in health issues
11. Sustainable innovations in disasters management
12. Economic development and sustainability
13. Innovation, growth and sustainability
14. Learning, capability building and innovation
15. Innovation studies and sustainability
16. Transnational knowledge, technology and governance networks and sustainable innovation

Submission details 

There will be two tracks for abstract submissions; papers and posters. Abstracts should be maximum 500 words and must be submitted online via the conference website:http://icosi.umy.ac.id/online-submission   latest by 30 October 2011. Acceptance of all abstracts will be based on relevance for sustainable innovation issues stated in the conference themes, originality and overall quality. Final acceptance of abstract will be communicated by 1 November 2011 via email.

Full papers of 3000-9000 words (maximum) are to be submitted latest by 4 February 2012. Acceptance full paper notification will be informed by 14 January 2012.

Click here to see the Paper guideline and structure

 Important dates

1. Call for papers,  15 September 2011
2. Abstract submission deadline,   30 October 2011
3. Acceptance of abstract notification , 1 November 2011
4. Full paper submission deadline, 4 February 2011
5. Acceptance of full paper notification,  14 January 2011

New book: Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century

 New from Edward Elgar Publishing:

Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century

Debates, Models and Practices Across Government, Law and Business

Bryan Horrigan, Monash University, Australia

This timely and thorough book offers one of the most wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary, and cross jurisdictional analyses of corporate social responsibility so far in the 21st century.

Professor Bryan Horrigan spans subjects as diverse and topical as global corporate responsibility and governance debates, practical guidelines for responsible businesses and their professional advisers, governmental roles in corporate social responsibility, corporations and human rights, and the new era of ‘enlightened shareholder value’. He also highlights an emerging transnational and comparative body of law, regulation, and practice on corporate social responsibility. Illustrated throughout with meaningful controversies and examples, the book also highlights the major recent global developments in corporate social responsibility already this century, focusing especially on Europe, the UK, North America, and Australasia, and charting its future regulatory and research directions worldwide.

The book’s scholarly foundation, up-to-date coverage, and accessible style will appeal particularly to academic researchers and students of corporate social responsibility in the fields of law, business, management, economics, and political science in a number of countries. It will also be of great interest and use to those whose work involves corporate social responsibility within government, business, and civil society.

Click here for more information about this book

SRRNet members will received a discount for buying this book. See details info in your email.

 

 

 

 

Announcements from SRRNet

There are 2 pieces of news today. Firstly we have a redesigned website which I think is a big improvement. Many thanks to Lina Gomez, Universitat Jaume I, Spain for doing this. Have a look at our website and tell us what you think – at www.socialresponsbility.biz .

And secondly one of our members has had a book published.  Congratulations to Lucely Vargas for this achievement.

Invitations to Authors/Call for Papers Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Ethics

Invitation to Authors / Call for Papers

Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Ethics

The Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Ethics (MJAE) is happy to announce The Invitation to Authors / Call for Papers for the first issue.

The Journal’s Statement – Multidisciplinarity which results with an overview is of utmost significance in our scientific proceedings as well as in our daily lives in which we lack surveyability. Applied ethics is one among many possibilities via which this synoptic view can be gained and which enables one to overview the whole pattern of a phenomenon,form and function as a unity, structure and configuration as one. For us, the most suitable way to contribute to this goal is to try to develop clear and stringent multidisciplinary journal for applied ethics.

All the relevant information authors can find in the Journal’s basic document:

• Krkac, Kristijan (2011) Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Ethics, Basic documents, templates, forms, and records, www.filozofija.org
• The deadline for submitting full papers: 1^st October 201
•  Publishing date for the first issue: between December 2011 and January 2012 depending on the number of submitted papers.

 The topic of the first issue is the following:

BUSINESS ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE VERY CORE OF A BUSINESS

Subtopics are the following:

IMPORTANT NOTE 1: Please note to which topic your paper belongs in “2. The Authors(s) MANUSCRIPT Document Template (Template 2)” of the Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Ethics, Basic documents, templates, forms, and records.

(1) Do all core business models imply or include some kind of ethical values? (theoretical / conceptual / critical research and thought experiments are very welcomed)

(2)  Business models, standard procedures, and manifested values (analyses and examples from practice / theory relations are very welcomed)

(3) What is the connection between Core business models and ethical codes (practitioners papers based on experience are very welcomed)

(4) Can there be Core business without values (criticism of the very idea of ethical values being implicit and manifested in a core business basic procedures are very welcomed)

(5) Procedural and ethical values of a standard business procedure (case studies especially welcomed)

IMPORTANT NOTE 2:  If a paper is acceptable by the known criteria stated in the basic documents yet it is significantly out of the topic of the current issue, it can be published in the next issue out of the main topic or in the present one if there would be enough space and time.

Besides papers the journal also accepts:

- paper out of the topic (if there would be time and space to publish them in the current issue)

- cases

- book reviews

- discussions on recent papers

- various announcements

Papers are submitted to the Principal Administrator Darko Staudinger:  darko_staudinger@yahoo.com

IMPORTANT NOTE 3: The procedure that follows is described in the Basic documents, templates, forms, and records mentioned previously. Please follow the Guidelines strictly. If you have any problems considering the process, please do not hesitate to contact The Associate Editor or the Editor

 Multidisciplinary Journal for Applied Ethics

Publisher:              Society for advancement of philosophy filozofija.org

 Address:                Jordanovac 110, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

URL:                       www.filozofija.org

Editor:

Randy Richards, St. Ambrose University, USA  RichardsRandyL@sau.edu

Associate Editor:

Kristijan Krkac, Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Philosophical Faculty of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Croatia  kkrkac@gmail.com

Guest Editor: (first issue)

R. Edward Freeman, University of Virginia, USA, FREEMANE@darden.virginia.edu

Administration office:

Principal administrator (first issue):

Darko Staudinger, MA, Croatia

darko_staudinger@yahoo.com

Administrator’s assistant (first issue):

Antonija Jergovski, BA, FFDI/ZSEM, Croatia

ajergovski@yahoo.com

Editorial Advisory Board:

Guler Aras, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey

Christian Beck, Kath. Universität Eichstätt, Germany

Maria Alice Nun es Costa, Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

David Crowther, De Montfort University, UK

Paolo D’Anselmi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata / Alfa Scarl for Evaluation and Benchmarking, Italy

Renata Franc, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia

R. Edward Freeman, University of Virginia, USA

Khosro S. Jahdi, Bradford College, UK

Borna Jalšenjak, Zagreb School of Economics and Management/Philosophical Faculty of The Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Croatia

Ivan Jalšenjak, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Ivan Koprek, Philosophical Faculty of The Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Croatia

Josip Lukin, Private practice/Croatian Studies, Croatia

Ivan Macan, Philosophical Faculty of The Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Croatia

Irena Martinović Klarić, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Croatia

Janice McCormick, Dubrovnik International University, Croatia

Vedran Micek, University of Zagreb

Fulya Akyildiz, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Usak, Turkey

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Roskilde University, Denmark

Kevin W. Gibson, Marquette University, USA

Damir Mladić, Dubrovnik International University, Croatia

Michael J. Parnham, J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany/University Hospital for Infectious Diseases “Dr Fran Mihaljevic”, Germany/Croatia

Branimir Rajšel, Gammarus Environmental Research, Croatia

Christina Reis, University of New Haven, USA

Marion Secka, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Sandro Skansi, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Ivan Spajić, Philosophical Faculty of The Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Croatia

Matej Sušnik, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Ivan Tomac, Global Deployment Manager, Ericsson

Trpimir Vedriš, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Administration office:

Jelena Debeljak, Zagreb School of Economics and Management, CEP, Croatia

Antonija Jergovski, Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia

Darko Staudinger, Croatia

Stipe Buzar, Croatia

Damijan Bermanec, Croatia

Call for articles and reviews: Social Responsibility Review

It will soon be time for the next issue of Social Responsibility Review  so if you have any articles or reviews which you would like to be included then please send them to David Crowther  by 20^th September.

Call for papers 11th International Conference on CSR

11th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

May 8-10, 2012,  Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland

CSR and Risk Management

For our 11th Conference in this series we will be visiting Finland where the conference will be held in Lahti, and hosted by Lahti University of Applied Sciences. It will be organized by the Faculty of Business Studies, Lahti University of Applied Sciences in conjuction with the Social Responbility Research Network (SRRNet).

Call for papers

Although preference will be given to full papers, abstracts of 200-500 words will also be considered. All papers and abstracts should be sent by 10^thJanuary 2012 by email to David Crowther. No more than 2 papers will be accepted from any author.

This year we will again be running a doctoral colloquium on one day of the conference. The aim will be to give detailed feedback to doctoral researchers concerning their papers. This colloquium will be organised by Professor Dr Güler Aras and abstracts of 200-500 words should be sent by 10^th January 2012 by email to Guler Aras. In order to allow detailed feedback full papers will be required in advance of the conference – full details will be given to participants upon acceptance.

Offers to run workshops, symposia, poster sessions, themed tracks or alternative events are especially welcome. Please contact Ulla Kotonen with suggestions.

Full and updated details can be found at the conference website