Call for Papers: Business & Society "Sustainable Development and Financial Markets"
Posted: 2011/12/22
Deadline: 2012/10/15  Deadline: October 15, 2012
More information: website
Many examples can be found which illustrate that, in spite of increasing concerns about environmental and closely related social and governance issues, there has not been a significant global shift towards greater sustainability. This Special Issue will address this paradoxical situation related to the market demand for and "supply" of sustainable development.
Contributions to the Special Issue may cover (but are not limited to) the following research questions:
- What are the contemporary sustainable investment practices, and how effective are they in terms of their contribution to sustainable development? How are these sustainable investing practices affected by other events and upheavals in financial markets, such as the 2008/2009 financial crisis or the 2011 Euro crisis?
- How can different (economic, sociological, psychological, etc.) theories of equity market participants' decision making, business cycles, and aggregate market dynamics inform the debate on sustainable development and financial markets?
- How do individual market participants react to sustainable investment products? Do the characteristics of these "sustainable" investors differ from those of regular investors?
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 Call for Papers: Corporate Accountability Reporting
Posted: 2012/04/29
Deadline: 2012/09/01 Deadline date: September 1, 2012
More information: website
 In the last decade, a growing number of for-profit corporations across the world have started voluntarily augmenting their annual financial reports with reports on “corporate sustainability,” “corporate social responsibility,” and “corporate environmental performance,” among others. As of April 2011, there are over 32,000 such reports on the Corporate Register, a database archiving “global corporate responsibility” reports. Relatedly, a number of private organizations have emerged that bundle the standard setting and assurance/ auditing activities for corporate accountability reporting, including the Global Reporting Initiative, B Lab, and AccountAbility.
Harvard Business School in collaboration with one of the world's leading accounting journals, the Journal of Accounting & Economics, is sponsoring a conference on corporate accountability reporting. Hermes Fund Managers have also provided a generous prize money fund for the best papers presented at this conference. For more information on papers and deadlines, please see the above link.
Call for Applications: PhD Sustainability Academy
Posted: 2012/05/01
Deadline: 2012/08/30 On October 25-30, Ivey will host the 5th PhD Sustainability Academy. This year’s theme is Theories and Paradigms for Sustainability.
The Academy will explore, engage and encourage: the emergence, growth and diffusion of theories for researching and teaching sustainability; past, present and future paradigms for sustainability work in academe and practice; and ways to multi-dimensionalize our thinking and action for a more sustainable world. The Academy will rethink sustainability using multiple lenses, push our understanding on systemic/intractable problems we collectively face, and enrich our theoretical and empirical analyses of individual, organizational, societal and eco-system life.
If you are doing your doctorate on sustainability related themes, submit an application by August 30, 2012. All the local expenses are covered, but invited participants are responsible for their own travel.
The Network for Business Sustainability sponsors a Best Paper Award and a $500 cash prize.
 More InformationCall for Papers: International Journal of Disclosure and Governance
Posted: 2011/07/12
Deadline: 2012/07/01 Submission Deadline
July 1, 2012
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The International Journal of Disclosure and Governance is calling for papers for a special issue on Enhancing the Effectiveness of the 21st Century Board of Directors. This issue, planned for late 2012, will build on the success of previous special issues, devoted to Governance in India, XBRL, The Audit Profession and Financial Regulation.
Submission Guidelines: Interested authors should submit manuscripts to special issue coeditor Richard Leblanc at rleblanc@yorku.ca and also copy the journal editor, Michael Alles, at alles@business.rutgers.edu. Please note that the submission deadline for the special issue is July 1, 2012, though early submissions are highly encouraged to enable a timely review. All academic submissions will be peer reviewed. Final submission decisions will be announced by August 31, 2012
Call for Papers: The 19th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics
Posted: 2012/02/13
Deadline: 2012/06/01  Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012
More Information: www.niagara.edu/ethics/
The annual international conference promoting business ethics encourages a very broad-based approach to the discussion of ethical theory and practice and seeks contributions to that discussion from business and academic professionals who are promoting business ethics through:
- The traditional business disciplines: accounting, finance, marketing, advertising and management
- Other related areas of interest: philosophy, Theology, psychology, and sociology
In addition to the general theme for keynote and plenary sessions, Seeking Excellence in Organizations the conference will be organized in broad topical areas based on proposed submissions. Formal academic sessions will be interspersed with panel discussions, interactive conversations, keynote addresses and debates for dynamic participation among conference attendees.
A Call for Papers has been issued. A one-page proposal, including an abstract, along with contact details should be submitted by June 1, 2012.
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Call for Papers: Second Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) Conference
Posted: 2012/04/27
Deadline: 2012/06/01 Deadline date: June 1, 2012
More information: events-mm@deakin.edu.au
Submissions are now being invited for the Second ABEN conference on business, ethics and business ethics. Bringing academics, critics and practitioners together to discuss and debate the nature, intent, effects and futures of business ethics in Australasia and beyond, the ABEN conference is developing into a key forum in the region for reflective, engaged and critical work in the area.
The ABEN conference is inclusive welcoming submissions that explore business ethics from a range of theoretical, empirical and practical positions and perspectives.
For more information on submissions and procedures, please see the below PDF.
Call For Papers.pdf
Call for Papers: Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment
Posted: 2012/05/10
Deadline: 2012/06/01 Deadline date: June 1, 2012
More information: website
Conference date: Spring 2013
Conference location: New York, USA
Blackrock, in association with the National Association of Corporate Directors is sponsoring a paper competition which is open to undergraduates, graduates, PhDs and faculty from any university. They are inviting papers which look at the relationship between investors and public companies. The winners of the competition will be invited to present their work in New York at the NACD Spring Forum in 2013. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2012. For further details please see the above link and the below attachment, or E-Mail: corporategovernance@blackrock.com.
BlackRock&NACD.pdf
Call for Papers: Special Issue on CSR, Institutional Structures & Corporate Governance
Posted: 2012/01/16
Deadline: 2012/04/15  Submission Deadline: April 15, 2012
More Information: Website or Download the Call (PDF 120KB)
This special issue focuses on three broad issues. Papers submitted to the special issue should show how they relate to one or more of the following general themes:
- What is the relationship between global and local institutional structures and CSR strategy and policy choices of firms, both local and multinational?
- What is the relationship between a firm’s CSR strategy and its internal and external governance structures?
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As the global business environment evolves are there more efficient and/or more equitable corporate governance models that involve or promote CSR? Does CSR work better in some governance environments than others?
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of corporate governance research, papers of a theoretical or empirical nature and from a range of disciplines are welcomed. Research that involves substantive international comparisons, and speaks to both local and multinational corporations, are particularly welcome due to CGIR’s global mission.
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Call for Papers: oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2012
Posted: 2012/02/13
Deadline: 2012/03/31  Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012
More Information: www.oikos-international.org/academic/development/
The oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2012 provides PhD students and young scholars working on poverty, sustainable development, and the informal economy from an Organisation and Management Theory perspective a platform to present and discuss their on-going research projects with fellow students and senior faculty.
Research on inclusive business models, market development and sustainability between the informal and formal economy is a promising and challenging field for young researchers and PhD students. It calls for a multitude of methods, combination of disciplines in strategy, organisation studies, sociology, anthropology and economics, and new research designs, e.g. market ethnography in organisation studies.
The 2012 academy focus, “Matching Culture and Markets for Inclusive Development”, aims to attract papers analysing the strategies of businesses, governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs and other interest groups shaping moral markets that build on local capabilities, include the poor and create opportunities for sustainable development.
Call for Papers and Travel Grants
A call for papers has been issued, with a March 31, 2012 deadline. Up to three grants (travel, fee and accommodation) are available for outstanding young scholars coming from developing countries. Complete details and the call for papers at www.oikos-international.org/academic/development/.
Call for Applications: Visiting Researcher, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Posted: 2012/04/09
Deadline: 2012/03/31 Deadline date: March 31, 2012 (Applications will be considered after this date provided that positions are still available).
More information: ethics@utoronto.ca
The Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, invites enquiries from faculty interested in spending time in residence at the Centre as Visiting Researchers. Visiting Researchers will be provided with office space, library privileges, as well as modest administrative support, and are warmly encouraged to participate and share their research in seminars and other Centre activities throughout the academic year. Opportunities to teach on a stipendiary basis in the Ethics, Society and Law undergraduate program at Trinity College, University of Toronto may also be available.
Applications for Visiting Researcher positions for the 2012-13 academic year will
begin to be considered as of March 31, 2012, and will continue until all positions are filled. Applications for periods of less than a year will also be considered – offices are typically allocated in four-month blocks, corresponding to the summer (May-August), fall (September-December) or winter term (January-April). In order to apply, please send a cover letter explaining briefly your background and research plans, as well as a copy of your CV, to ethics@utoronto.ca.
Calls for papers: Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting
Posted: 2011/12/22
Deadline: 2012/03/15  Submission Deadline: March 15, 2012
More information: Website OR Download the Call (PDF 51KB)
The Society for Business Ethics has issued a Call for Submissions to its 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-5, 2012 in Boston, MA. The complete “Call for Submissions”, including a listing of themes for submission, can be downloaded below.
The annual meeting provides an opportunity for members to present their own research results, to become acquainted with the latest developments in teaching and research, to engage in the discussion of emerging business ethics issues, and to enjoy the fellowship of other scholars and professionals in the field. Meetings are held in early August, generally prior to the meeting for the Academy for Management.
 Download the Call (PDF 51KB)Call for Submissions: SBE Annual Meeting - Emerging Scholars/PhD Section
Posted: 2012/02/16
Deadline: 2012/03/15 Submission Deadline: March 15, 2012
More information: www.societyforbusinessethics.org
The Society for Business Ethics encourages all Ph.D. candidates to submit an abstract of an area they are working on for the emerging scholars sections of the Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 3-5, 2012 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA.
This is a special opportunity for young scholars to present to the members of the society. Ph.D. candidates may submit an abstract of between 750 and 1,000 words describing a research project in business ethics or related domains.
Complete details at www.societyforbusinessethics.org
Call for Papers: Business Ethics: Expectations and Disappointments
Posted: 2012/02/10
Deadline: 2012/03/14  Submission Deadline: March 14, 2012
Contributions are sought for a special issue of the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics. The AJPAE is particularly interested in papers that address the following themes:
Spirituality and business ethics: Interest in spirituality within the workplace has grown exponentially in recent years – both from instrumental and normative perspectives. What have we learnt so far? How are the paradigms compatible with one another? How do we manage the demands of the different ‘spirits’: the spirit of capitalism, the spirit of Mother Earth, the spirit of religions, the spirit of Man, the spirit of Woman – amongst others?
Myths in business ethics: Dissatisfied with current trends in the field, a growing number of scholars ‘go back to basics’ and re-read original texts from philosophers, economists or early management theorists with hopes of clarifying assumptions most take for granted. What assumptions should be questioned? Which myths pervade the business ethics area? How did they form and develop? What could they tell us about ethics, business and people?
Business, Society and Policy: Business operates within a social and political context. At the same time, business also shapes that context. What are the relationships between business practices, societal expectations and public policy-making? How does business seek to influence public policy and public opinion (in the past, in the present)? How has that influence shaped social outcomes in areas, for example, of distributive justice and environmental sustainability? How can we make it better?
Submission process
Papers submitted for publication in the journal will be blind refereed. Full details of the submission guidelines are available at: http://www.cappe.edu.au/publications/ajpae.htm#Information_for_Authors
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Guest Editor, Peter McGhee at peter.mcghee@aut.ac.nz by 14 March 2012. Authors will be notified of the acceptance or otherwise of their submission by 16 April 2012. This special issue is scheduled to be published in the second half of 2012.
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Posted: 2011/12/22
Deadline: 2012/03/01  Deadline: March 1, 2012
More Information: b.p.de.bruin@rug.nl
The Review of Social Economy and the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, devote a conference and a special issue to professional oaths and codes. The conference will take place on 11 and 12 May 2012 in Groningen, The Netherlands. Invited speakers are John Boatright (Loyola University Chicago) and George DeMartino (University of Denver). A selection of papers presented at the conference, upon passing double-blind peer review, will be published in a special issue or Review of Social Economy. Guest editor is Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen).
Submissions of extended abstracts are invited of around 1,000 words for conference presentations with a deadline of 1 March 2012. The topic is professional oaths and codes in the broadest sense of the word, including philosophical, economic, psychological, sociological approaches. Submissions, and inquiries, should be sent to Boudewijn de Bruin at b.p.de.bruin@rug.nl and Wilfred Dolfsma, corresponding editor Review of Social Economy, at w.a.dolfsma@rug.nl.
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Call for Abstracts: Western Hemispheric Integration Conference - Best Practices in Organizational Governance
Posted: 2012/01/09
Deadline: 2012/02/15  Submission Deadline: February 15, 2012
More Information: Website
Conference Date: May 30-31, 2012
Location: University of Texas at El Paso
The Center for Multicultural Management and Ethics invites submissions of papers, multi-speaker symposium, or workshop. Submissions should present new material, distinct from published works. Submissions should be consistent with one or more of the general content areas listed below. A broad range of topic areas are invited for submission, and priority is given to those with clear relevance to best practices in any type of organization (such as businesses, government entities, and non-profit organizations) in the Western Hemisphere. Innovative submissions that highlight dialogues between theory and practice, different countries and cultures, different content areas, and different disciplines are encouraged.
Examples of relevant topics include: best practices in contracting and procurement, investigative journalism of organizational misconduct, challenges of sole source contracting and procurement, using audits to discover and prevent inappropriate behaviors, using employee training and hiring procedures to improve workforce integrity, etc.
Conference Theme Tracks
Best Practice Ethics in Organizations
Best Practice Governance Mechanisms
Call for Participants: Human Rights Responsibilities of MNCs in the Developing World
Posted: 2011/12/15
Deadline: 2012/02/10 Call for Participants Deadline
February 10, 2012
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Workshop Date
June 7-8, 2012
This workshop, organized by the TransAtlantic Doctoral Academy for Corporate Responsibility and held in St Gallen, Switzerland, is open to doctoral researchers. The workshop aims to discuss dimensions of human rights responsibilities for MNCs that go beyond legal requirements, since laws and regulations are notoriously weak in most of the developing world.
The main focus lies on the following questions: which rights should companies respect or protect, and what are the consequences for practice?
Aim
This workshop aims at presenting first results and discussing possible frameworks to analyze the topic, and to formulate hypotheses. Upon finishing, a report of the main findings and a clear research agenda will be published online. The workshop will also facilitate exchange and explore possible co-operations among participating scholars.
Call for Papers: The Fifth ISBEE World Congress - Tradition and New Horizons: Towards the Virtue of Responsibility
Posted: 2011/07/27
Deadline: 2012/01/31
Submission Deadline
January 31, 2012
Conference Date
July 11 -14, 2012
Information
www.isbee2012.kozminski.edu.pl/call-for-papers.html
The
ISBEE World Congress
is held every fourth year from 1996. It has succeeded in
attracting the best minds in the field of business ethics. The Congress
provides a forum for business and academics to grapple with some of the
most pressing ethical issues facing businesses all over the world, and
the new horizons coming from business ethics research to fill a wide
range of social expectations. The ISBEE Congress will be held in Warsaw, Poland, hosted
by Kozminski University.
The 2012 Fifth ISBEE Congress will look to identify key directions for
future research that address the complexity of challenges and possible
solutions. It will serve as an inspiration-sharing platform around the
vital area of responsibility. The main theme of the Congress is:
"Tradition and New Horizons: Towards the Virtue of Responsibility".
Submissions
ISBEE is calling for submissions to the 2012 Fifth ISBEE Congress. Visit the Conference website for complete details. Call for papers: European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Research Conference 2012
Posted: 2011/12/22
Deadline: 2012/01/31 Deadline: January 31, 2012
More information: website
Papers and abstracts must be submitted by 31 January 2012 to david.campbell@ncl.ac.uk and can be on any subject in business ethics linked to the main themes of the conference: accountability, transparency, sustainability.Authors are invited to interpret the themes widely to encourage a range of interesting contributions at the conference itself.
There will be a special stream on ‘research methods in business ethics’. The special edition of Business ethics: a European review will be based around submissions to this stream.Please submit papers and/or abstracts to david.campbell@ncl.ac.uk clearly indicating that your submission is intended for the special stream of research methods. If you can submit your abstract or paper before the final submission date, that will be all the more welcome.
Call for Papers: ARCS Fourth Annual Research Conference
Posted: 2012/01/03
Deadline: 2012/01/31 Submission Deadline: Jan 31, 2012
More Information: Website OR Download the Call
 This Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives interested in advancing research on corporate sustainability. This is the fourth annual conference of ARCS, a consortium of universities that seeks to provide data, tools and networking opportunities to researchers who are developing a greater understanding of the opportunities and limits of policies and strategies to foster sustainable business. The conference builds on the successful Third Annual ARCS Conference hosted by the Wharton School last spring.
The conference welcomes unpublished working papers focused on business and sustainability (both social and environmental) from all disciplines and research areas. Submissions are encouraged from a wide range of perspectives and methods including empirical research, theory development, formal theoretical modeling, and experimental methods. Of particular interest to the organizers are papers that have implications for management and organizations. Papers drawn from organizational theory, strategy, operations, sociology, psychology and decision making, law, economics, political science, and other fields are within the realm of the conference.
Download the Call (PDF 423KB) Calls for papers: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Twenty-first Annual Meeting
Posted: 2011/12/22
Deadline: 2012/01/23 Deadline: January 23, 2012
More information: website
The Twenty-first Annual Meeting, open to Association members and nonmembers, welcomes persons from various disciplines and professions for discussion of common concerns in practical and professional ethics. The meeting provides an opportunity to meet practitioners, professionals and scholars who share your interests. The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics was founded in 1991 to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching of high quality in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the practical-theoretical aspects of their subjects. The Association facilitates communication and joint ventures among centers, schools, colleges, business and nonprofit organizations and individuals concerned with the interdisciplinary study and teaching of practical and professional ethics. The Association is also the sponsor of the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl held at the Annual Meeting and the 10 Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowls held under its auspices.
This call invites individuals from all disciplines and professions interested in advancing scholarship, teaching and a general understanding of practical and professional ethics. The meeting is open to Association members and nonmembers alike. Submissions are invited on applied ethical issues in all fields (e.g., business, engineering, government, journalism, law medicine, science, etc.) as well as interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary issues that cut across professions (bioethics, environment, health care, higher education, research ethics, etc.). Submissions may include formal papers, panel presentations, roundtable discussions, case studies, and pedagogical demonstrations. In practice, one submission per person will be accepted. A book may be submitted for Author Meets the Critics and/or Lunch With and Author.
Call for Papers: ICCSR Conference
Posted: 2011/12/15
Deadline: 2012/01/13  A Call for Papers has been issued for the ICCSR 10th Anniversary Conference to be held at Nottingham University Business School, UK, on 26th & 27th April 2012
Submission Deadline
January 13, 2012
Conference Outline
The conference will combine practitioner and academic keynote presentations and practitioner and academic panels which will address the broad question of CSR futures. Both academic researchers and practitioners are encouraged to respond to the call for papers.
Parallel streams will address more focused questions about CSR futures from such perspectives as Consumer Responsibility; Business and Development; CSR in Asia; CSR Context and Dynamics; CSR and Governance; CSR Impact; Leadership for Sustainability; Organisational Change for Sustainability.
PhD Seminar
There will also be a PhD seminar on 25th April.
Complete details at www.nottingham.ac.uk
Call for papers: Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
Posted: 2011/12/22
Deadline: 2012/01/09 Deadline: January 9, 2012
More information: website
You are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, or roundtable discussions on topics related to nonprofits, co-operatives, social enterprises, community economic development, and the social economy in Canadian, comparative, or international contexts. Proposals are particularly encouraged that fit into any of the following areas, broadly defined:
Changing Role of Nonprofits and the Social Economy in an Uncertain World
Co-operatives in 2012, the Year of the Co-operative
Nonprofits in a Time of Cutbacks
Social Enterprises, Social Entrepreneurship, & Social Innovation
Community Economic Development & Community Organizing
Volunteering & Citizen Engagement
Collaborations, Partnerships & Mergers
Communication, Networking & Social Media
Finance
Governance & Management
Research Methodologies & Community-University Research Partnerships
Public Policy & Government Relations
Theoretical Perspectives
Proposals of wider relevance are also accepted, which may not fit the categories listed above. We are particularly interested in papers, panels and roundtables involving collaboration between academics and practitioners. Call for Papers: CBERN PhD Winter Research Meeting
Posted: 2011/11/07
Deadline: 2011/12/19 Submission Deadline:
December 19, 2011
A call for papers has been issued for the CBERN PhD Winter Research Meeting in Toronto from Friday, February 17 - Sunday, February 19, 2012.
Eligibility
Participants in the workshop must be registered in a PhD program at a Canadian institution, and working on a dissertation or substantial research project in business ethics, broadly construed.
Workshop Format
All participants will present a work-in-progress, which could include a paper they hope to send for publication, a paper they are preparing for a conference, or a chapter of their PhD research project.
Information
www.cbern.ca/research/clusters/phd_cluster/winter2012/ Call for submissions: The ACRN Young Scholar Research Paper Competition, 2011
Posted: 2011/10/04
Deadline: 2011/11/15 Submission Deadline
November 15, 2011
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The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) would like to invite
submissions from young researchers for its annual anti-corruption
research paper competition. The anti-corruption research paper
competition gives young scholars an opportunity to take up the challenge
of filling important knowledge gaps in the field, present innovative
approaches for measuring and understanding corruption and showcase new
findings on what works and what does not in tackling corruption and
ensuring sound governance.
Award
The author of the winning paper will receive a travel stipend to
participate at a research conference of her / his choice. The maximum
value of this scholarship is 1500 Euros and it is not exchangeable for a
cash reward.
How to Submit
Contact acrn_editor@transparency.org by November 15, 2011, with the subject line “ACRN research paper competition”.
Call for Papers: Journal of Religion and Business Ethics
Posted: 2012/01/27
Submission deadline and more information: website
The Journal of Religion and Business Ethics is now actively seeking submissions for it's latest issue. If you have presentations, papers or articles dealing with an ethical analysis of business practices and/or economic structures from the perspective of a religious tradition or spiritual system, please consider the Journal's publication for your work.
To submit an article, follow the above link and click on the "Submit" button in the right hand menu. Be sure to have an abstract and author bio prepared ahead of time in order to make the submission process as smooth as possible.
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