AccountAbility’s Simon Zadek Wins Prestigious Book Award
Dr Simon Zadek, AccountAbility’s Chief
Executive, has been awarded the Academy
of Management’s 2006 Social Issues in Management Book Award
for his book, The Civil Corporation: the
New Economy of Corporate Citizenship. This prestigious award marks out this
book as the classic and most insightful exploration of contemporary
developments in responsible business practices and their implications for
business strategy and public policy. The Civil Corporation beat 145 international award entrants to
receive honours from the Academy
of Management - the
world’s leading network of business scholars. The book won the highly-prized Social
Issues in Management Division (SIM) Award.
Kathy Getz, Professor at American University ad
Chair of the 2006 SIM Book Award Committee, said in announcing the award at the
Academy of Management’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on 14th
August: “The scope of the book is broad: it looks at a new way to conceptualize
the corporation and how this new corporation fits in a potentially new
institutional order in the future. Simon appropriately criticizes extant
measurement practices for evaluating the quality of stakeholder
relationships…Practitioners and academics alike will find intriguing insights
in the book.”
Simon Zadek, commenting on the Award: “This is an
honour for me, of course, to receive an award previously won by intellectual
giants like Galbraith, Olsen and Rawls. But most significant is that it is the
first time that a book on contemporary developments in businesses role in
society has been recognised in this way by the world’s academic establishment,
which is a credit to the work of many practitioners and academics across the
world.” The Civil Corporation traces the emergence of contemporary
approaches to corporate responsibility and explores its implications for
business practice and broader governance. It introduces ‘civil regulation’ into
the modern lexicon, and connects stakeholder engagement, organisational
innovation and learning, and business strategy and practices. Crucially, it connects an
insightful vista of the broader landscape with a set of practical ‘do’s’ for
businesses and their stakeholders that have stood the test of time.
The Financial
Times review of the book concluded that: ‘The intricate analysis…makes a powerful
case for business to reassess their values, relationships and processes’. Ian Hargreaves, former Editor of The New
Statesman and the Independent
said of The Civil Corporation: “The future depends on our ability to manage
corporate ambition within a sustainable social and environmental framework.
Simon Zadek’s book is a huge contribution to understanding the mechanics of how
this problem might be successfully addressed”.
For further
information, interview requests or review copies of the book, please contact:
EFMD and CEIBS invite you to attend
"Leading China's Future - Future Chinese Leaders" an international conference in
Shanghai (26th-28th November 2006), where leading scholars, academia, business
leaders and administrators from around the globe will discuss and debate what
kind of leaders and leadership China needs for its further development. For
further information, visit the EFMD website or contact Shanshan Ge at shanshan.ge@efmd.org
The Financial Times (15/09/06) covered the release of a notable report on Accountants and Sustainability, published by the Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB), committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). The report emphasizes the 'economics of sustainability' as a driving force in business fundamentals.
The report consists of a series of interviews with accountants from around the world demonstrating that "there can be no doubt that the whole issue of sustainability is moving rapidly up the priority list of professional accountants in business." Evident is that accountants around the world are embracing sustainability, reorganising thier processes and seeking to take a longer term perspective of the organisation.
To access the many enlightened insights of these leading accountants please download the report here.
Aspen Institute has published its latest Closer Look at Business Education report, this time focused on Social Entrepreneurship / Social Enterprise. The report features excerpts from an interview with Duke’s Greg Dees, often viewed as the father of the academic discipline. Download the report: http://www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org/pdf/sereportlist.pdf
The rate at which SE content is increasingly included in MBA curricula has been staggering, given the normal pace of change in academia. In this report, the authors identify some of the most interesting courses, case studies, and campus academic centers. Some tough questions remain, however, including the intellectual cohesion of the SE concept, its relevance to MBA education, and its ability to tackle the world’s toughest issues.
In addition to the report, EABIS member, IESE, also provides a SE course and does leading edge research on SE and the Bottom of the Pyramid, led by Johanna Mair. Relevant links:
CSR & SMEs: EABIS Knowledge and Learning Network Grants (Category C) Awarded
Following the open call earlier this year (July 2006), the participants to be involved in the EABIS Knowledge & Learning Network on SMEs and CSR have now been selected:
Mette Andersen (The Copenhagen Centre, Denmark)
Boleslaw Rok (Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Poland)
Jonas Eder-Hansen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Ted Fuller (Teesside Business School, UK)
Jan Lepoutre (Ghent University, Belgium)
Celine Louche (Vlerick Leuven Business School, Belgium)
Gary Lynch-Wood & David Williamson (University of Manchester, UK)
Mario Molteni (Universita Cattolica di Milano, Italy)
Geoff Moore (Durham Business School, UK)
David Murillo (ESADE Business School, Spain)
Francesco Perrini (Bocconi University, Italy)
Juliet Roper (Waikato Management School, New Zealand)
Laura Spence (Brunel University, UK)
David Grayson (BITC, UK)
The Network will meet in Copenhagen on 27th of October 2006, hosted by Copenhagen Business School. The purpose of the meeting is to clarify priority areas of research and consider possible funding sources to enable a pan-European research project, or projects, to get under way.
This initiative, part of the European Knowledge Network (formerly Category C) Funding Scheme of the EABIS Corporate Funded Programme, has been made possible due to the generous financial support of EABIS's founding corporate partners: IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever.
Ashridge Student Jason Darrow Awarded the 2006 Ashridge MBA Essay Award
Ashridge Business School, EABIS and Microsoft are very happy to announce and congratulate the winner of the 2006 Ashridge Best European MBA Essay Award, Jason Darrow, a full-time MBA student at Ashridge and the first ever winner from the school since it created the Award eight years ago. The 2006 competition is also the first time that EABIS founding partner Microsoft has sponsored the award.
This year’s Award challenged European MBA students to submit thought-provoking essays on the responsibilities of business within the broader context of a knowledge economy. Darrow’s winning entry, entitled “How can I be expected to understand all this?” argues that given the new complexity of global business, business education needs to help future leaders and managers develop the skills to meet contemporary challenges such as geo-political movements and global resource sustainability.
Nigel Roome of Solvay Selected as 2006 Aspen Faculty Pioneer for Europe, with Professors Ans Kolk (Amsterdam, Antonio Argandoña (IESE) and Wojciech Gasparski (LKAEM Warsaw) Highly Commended Runners-Up
EABIS and the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP) are pleased to announce Professor Nigel Roome of SolvayBusinessSchool of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) as the winner of the 2006 Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award for Europe. Prof. Roome, who currently serves as the Daniel Janssen Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility at Solvay, has consistently generated an outstanding body of research, embodied excellence in leading curriculum development initiatives and shown a deep commitment to advancing corporate responsibility knowledge, learning and training.
The judging panel for the 2006 European award was comprised of a balance of senior academics from some of Europe’s top business schools and leading corporate responsibility practitioners from renowned multinational companies. Nominees were judged on having demonstrated excellence in one or more of the following ways:
integrating of social, environmental and economic issues into business school and university courses, curriculum development and design in management education;
demonstrating of leadership in business schools or university activities;
making a positive and visible impact on business practice;
showing cutting-edge scholarship within the context of social and environmental issues in business.
The 2006 Award attracted a record number of nominations from European institutions, reflecting the quality of teaching and research now being conducted on business in society issues. In what was a highly competitive selection process, the panel formally recognised three other EABIS members for their outstanding contributions to the development of corporate responsibility knowledge and learning in Europe: Prof. Antonio Argandona (IESEBusinessSchool), Prof. Ans Kolk (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Wojciech Gasparski (Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management).
The awards were jointly presented at EABIS’ 5th Annual Colloquium in Milan by Gilbert Lenssen, EABIS President, and Judith Samuelson, Executive Director of the Aspen Business in Society Program.
CSR Platform Consortium Meeting 13.09.06 - Final Year Preparations
The CSR Platform Project Partners came together in Stresa, Italy, to dicuss the overarching strategy and approach for the remainder of the project and how the various workstreams can contribute to the overall projects objectives.
Progress to date was reviewed and preliminary findings and observations were presented and intensively discussed.
By September 2007, the CSR Platform Project will provide key recommendations to the European Commission, the academic community, business and other relevant stakeholders concerning:
Future research priorities and knowledge developments needs related to CSR and the role of business in society
A blueprint on how the European Research Area on CSR and the role of Business in Society can be further enhanced in Europe and beyond
How the academic community can optimise its interaction and collaboration with its stakeholders as to ensure relevant research and knowledge generation
A wide range of events are still to be organised in the 12 months to come, including next year's Colloquium, organised in collaboration with ESADE and IESE in Barcelona on 21 and 22 September 2007, marking the close of the project. Therefore, if you want to influence the future of CSR research in Europe, do join us in the coming months at one of the events across Europe!
For more information, please contact Bart Neerscholten, CSR Platform Manager, EABIS: +32-2-541 16 26 or bart.neerscholten@eabis.org
Call for EABIS Newszine Contributions - Issue 3, 2006
We are now ready to invite you to send us
content and contributions for the next issue of the EABIS Newszine, co-produced
with The Copenhagen Centre and scheduled for release in (approximately) the last
full week of October. We welcome institutional or individual stories and announcements on
topics as varied as new curriculum courses, programmes, industry reports,
academic papers and articles, institutional events, etc. – in brief anything
linked directly to corporate responsibility research, education or training.
Business school, company and affiliate members are all encouraged to submit.
Deadline for submissions is 18:00 CET on Monday, October 16,
2006. All material should be sent via
e-mail to Line (lgr@copenhagencentre.org),
preferably as an attachment in MS Word
Please refer to
EABIS Newszine in the ‘Subject’ line of the
e-mail
If you have any questions please do
not hesitate to call Hanne (+45 38 15 23 80) or Line (+45 38 15 23
68).
EABIS 5th Annual Corporate Responsibility Colloquium in Milan a Resounding Success
Keynote Speeches Delivered by George Soros and Mario Monti; More than 160 Research Papers and Initiatives were Presented – The European Academy of Business in Society, Europe’s leading reference point for corporate responsibility, wrapped up its 5th Annual Colloquium in Milan, Italy after two very productive days. This year’s Colloquium, which was co-hosted by SDA Bocconi, was especially successful, having drawn leading individuals in corporate responsibility including top business executives, leading academics, practitioners and policy makers. Among the very distinguished list of speakers and panellists included the CEO of EPSON Europe, the CEO of ENEL, Senior Chairman of Microsoft EMEA, European Head of Funds Trading and Structuring of Goldman Sachs, the Global Director of HR at Unilever and the CEO of E. Capital Partners Indices as well top academics from Wharton School of Business, SDA Bocconi, IMD, INSEAD and more. Building on the four previous conferences, the theme of this year's conference was ‘Corporate Sustainability, Strategic Management and the Stakeholder View of the Firm’. The event examined the challenges faced by managers, educators and policy makers in attempting to mainstream sustainability and responsible business practice to support European economic growth. In particular, the Colloquium explored how corporate responsibility issues affect and impact business strategies and how corporate sustainability can contribute to the strategic management of stakeholder relationships.
Call for Contributors: Information, Communication and Education on Climate Change
Climate change is a matter of global concern and not solely a European issue.
However, it is seen that there is a need to discuss and document
the initiatives at present being undertaken in Europe, a region with a
diversity of industrialised countries, in order to tackle the challenges
associated with climate mitigation and adaptation in a European scale. As
part of the Interreg IIIB project ASTRA
(http://www.astra-project.org/cms/), this book will pay an
equal attention to both mitigation and adaptation measures and will provide
reactive and pro-active messages which may guide reactions and follow-up
action to deal with what is one of the European – and indeed the world´s -
most pressing problems. The book will: Present a review of the approaches and
methods to inform, communicate and educate the public on climate change;
Introduce initiatives, projects and communication strategies undertaken by
governments, NGOs, universities, schools and industry with a view to
informing different stakeholders and raising awareness on climatechange issues; and, Promote the “Pan-Baltic climate change adaptation
and mitigation strategy” document and disseminate some of the
on-going initiatives today in Europe, with an emphasis on positive and
inspiring messages, aimed at encouraging more personal involvement in climate
change issues and inspiring more work in this field. Around 30 chapters
written by representatives from European NGOs, research institutes,
educators, climate experts, media specialists and industry. The deadline for
submissions of expressions of interest for papers is 15th October 2006, and
the selection and commissioning of papers will be complete by 30th October
2006. For further information, please contact the editorial office: ASTRA
Project, TuTech Innovation GmbH, Harburger Schlossstrasse 6 -12, D-21079
Hamburg, Germany [t] +49-40-766296341 [f] +49-40-7766296349 [e]
astra@tutech.de.
Special Edition of the Corporate Governance Journal launched
With
EU Support, EABIS Launches a Special Edition of the Corporate
Governance Journal Focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility and
Competitiveness. Contributors include top Names from Europe and
around the World including Peter Senge – Professor at MIT; Simon
Zadek – CEO at Accountability; Maria Rodrigues – Chief Economic
Advisor to the EU Lisbon Agenda; and Gavin Neath, Chair – Unilever
UK. Download the
press release.
The elusive business case - What's the real benefit of ethical practice?
In the latest issue of Ethical Corporation, it covers the big issues
that matter to your business – CEO strategies, standards development in CSR, and
how the business case does – or doesn’t – add up. Boots CEO Richard Baker offers
top sustainability tips; we cover developments in ISO 2600; AND the business
case for CSR. Check it out here.
Book on Business - NGO Partnerships by Jem Bendell available for free download
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‘In The Company of Partners’ (1997, Policy Press, co-authored with David
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