We are pleased to announce the public availability of the key deliverables from the 1 year project “The Changing Role of Government: The Relational State and its Implications for Corporate Responsibility” carried out by an international team of academics from:
ESADE Business School in Spain
SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy
The Norwegian School of Management
The project was developed through EABIS’ unique Corporate Funded Research Programme, sponsored by founding partners IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever.
This research project focused on government positions on promoting CR, with a comparative examination of existing policies in Italy, the United Kingdom and Norway. The outputs of the project are a significant contribution to the work of academics and practitioners aiming to understand the different public policy systems and approaches that exist in Europe and how these correlate to the development and integration of “responsible” business practices.
A complete list of research outputs is now available through the EABIS website. For more information, please click here.
We encourage you to share this material with colleagues who can benefit from this examination of the Changing Role of Government in Corporate Responsibility.
The Cambridge Climate Leaders Reference Guide is designed to help leaders prioritise and navigate their way through the plethora of documents and websites available on climate change. Compiled by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry to support the training programme that is running with Al Gore’s The Climate Project the Guide is organised into the following three broad themes to cover the most important aspects of the climate change debate.
Understanding Climate Change
Policy Responses to Climate Change
Ideas for Action on Climate Change.
Within each theme, the Guide provides one page summaries of the key documents (12 in all), as well as profiling the key websites (11) and listing additional resources.
For further information and to access the guide, available as html or for free download, please visit the following website www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/gore.
New EU Parliament Resolution Points to Bright Future for CSR Research, Education and Training and Commends EABIS
EABIS welcomes the approval by the European Parliament of a new Resolution on CSR, outlining a broad vision for increased support for research & knowledge development and education & learning initiatives around corporate responsibility.
The report – authored by Richard Howitt MEP, for years an important champion of corporate responsibility at the EU level and a previous keynote speaker at EABIS annual events – affirms some key messages:
The European political institutions have a vital long-term role to play in promoting corporate responsibility issues and driving change
It calls for the European Commission to allocate over 18 million EUR in funding to dedicated corporate responsibility research projects over the next six years
Business schools are in a pivotal position to address the European agenda through better integration of business in society subjects into their education and training programmes
It commends EABIS and its members for their leading role in advancing knowledge and learning in support of European policy objectives Please click hear to read the EABIS Announcement
Please click here for the complete EABIS Announcement
If you would like to read the Resolution in full, please visit the European Parliament website here or download the provisional text adopted here.
The Next Great Transformation: Sustainable Enterprise - Call for Ideas, Stories, Innovations and Papers
EABIS, in its role as supporting partner, is delighted to introduce you to the conference ‘The Next Great Transformation: Sustainable Enterprise’ - A Conversation About The Future taking place at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England from 24 to 26 October 2007, co-organized by the Coventry University Allied Center in Human Security, the UN Global Compact, the Eden Project and the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics and Center for Corporate Citizenship of the Boston College. The conference is sponsored by Shell International and also supported by the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Business as an Agent for World Benefit, the European Academy of Business In Society (EABIS) and Business Leaders Initiative for Human Rights.
A better understanding of complex dynamics and systems is required for a sustainable enterprise economy, particularly fragile eco-systems but also human society. Both transcend traditional territorial boundaries and established institutional social mechanisms. Facing the problems our current way of thinking has created, such as global warming and global terrorism, we must use our newfound knowledge to create a paradigm shift to a more equitable global socio-ecological situation.
The conference aims to explore new models, new systems, new policies and new strategies for this century and share the most brilliant, innovative practice around the world on sustainable enterprise. The conversation will take the form of a few provocative keynote speakers but there will be plenty of space for open and structured conversations in parallel and plenary sessions. A Roundtable in Sustainable Enterprise involving representatives form business, government, NGOs, academia and others has been meeting in London and will report on its findings during the event.
The conference seeks innovative ideas about how to build a more just and sustainable world in a way that will allow for the next great transformation. Sustainable enterprise pioneers, interesting thinkers, business, government, agencies, NGOs, and academics are invited to send their Ideas, Innovations, Stories and abstracts for Papers.
Please click here for the Call for Papers and for further information on the programme and registration details. The deadline for submissions is 2 May 2007.
EABIS is pleased to invite you to participate in this research workshop organised by the Institute of Governance and Public Management of Warwick Business School and scheduled to take place Wednesday, 30 May 2007 at Warwick Business School.
The event will serve as an important preliminary platform for the 6th EABIS Annual Colloquium (September 20-21, ESADE Business School, Barcelona), which will take as its theme “Global Governance and the Role of Business in Society”.
The workshop presents academics and engaged stakeholders with three outstanding opportunities around Global (Economic) Governance:
To help shape and enhance a more specialised knowledge and learning agenda
To contribute to the knowledge development and learning recommendations that will be streamed back to the European Commission to inform the FP7 Framework Programme
To engage with faculty members from the Social Sciences and Humanities for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, knowledge and perspectives
Gathering a selected group of academics and stakeholders from business, government and civil society with an acknowledged expertise, the workshop will allow in depth discussion on the following key questions:
How can governments share their responsibility for public space?
How can corporations accept democratic accountability - especially at global level where there is no demos?
Is there a public sphere beyond the state, and if so who populates it? What is the equivalent to those questions at global level? How does government gain access to global public space?
Are MNCs the only global citizens?
Participation and Registration Details
The workshop will have a limited number of participants to allow for effective dialogue and strong interaction between the participants. Priority for attendance will be given to those who have related work or ideas to contribute to the dialogue.
If your current work addresses the above issues and questions and believe you could enhance the content of the workshop, please pre-register by completing the Participation Request Form available on the event website but no later than Monday 16 April 2007. You will be informed of your selection by Friday 20 April.
As it forms part of the "CSR Platform" Project, led by the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) and funded by the European Union's 6th Framework Programme, participation is free of charge. Please note that travel and accommodation costs for participants will not be covered.
For further inquiries please contact: Kam Johal, Warwick Business School, E-mail: kam.johal@wbs.ac.uk
ACUA Special Interest Group, 28 March 2007, DTI Conference Centre, London
New Generation Corporate Universities and Academies: Developing a Global Perspective on Quality and Standards to Achieve Excellence
EABIS Members are invited to express interest in participating at the above Special Interest Group (SIG), which is being held on Wednesday 28th March 2007 at the Department of Trade and Industry Conference Centre in London.
This ACUA SIG event sets-out to explicate the factors that are shaping the quality of corporate university and academy interventions and promote a code of best practice. Differences can be a barrier to the determination of Corporate University & Academy Quality Standards but they can also provide the inspiration for new ideas in the local setting.
The SIG introduces three key-note speakers whose knowledge and experience is at the leading edge in dealing with the issues and factors in and around the subject area. Their presentations will define interesting considerations in the design of a code practice for business inspired training, education and situation learning, for example, between Europe and the USA and in the UK.
The 3 Keynote Speakers are:
Dr. Bianka Lichtenberger, Managing Director, FIBAA www.fibaa.com “Quality Assessment in the Design and Management of Corporate Universities”
David Rose - MD Innovation Associates & Ecuanet Contract Manager www.ecuanet.info “Developing and accrediting best practice - how and why”
Brian Stevens, Director FEdS Consultancy Limited www.signposterprogramme.co.uk “Policy Interface dynamics: the need for change – using the Goodison Group and the Signposter Programme as exemplars”
All SIG delegates will have the opportunity to add their experience and comment on the way forward in establishing quality standards that will underpin a corporate university professional accreditation methodology that is commensurate with the challenges posed by the dynamics of global competition.
The United Nations Global Compact (www.unglobalcompact.org) has established a global Task Force to create a set of Principles for Responsible Business (Management) * Education, to be presented at the Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva in July 2007 where more than a 1000 executives, including most senior business representatives, are expected.
Based on the success of the Global Compact and a related set of Principles for Responsible Investment, signed in 2006 by investors holding assets of over $2 trillion, the UNGC will be launching these principles for business schools in July. In the interest of creating an open process, the UNGC has created a “wiki” to which anyone who is interested in the Principles for Responsible Business Education can contribute.
To read the current draft and introduce your suggestions please follow the link http://unprbe.pbwiki.com and use the following password: responsibleeducation.
We strongly encourage you to add your input to the Wiki and to share this information with colleagues that you believe would be interested to contribute.
EABIS is delighted to announce the launch of the first Call for Contributions for the 2007 EABIS Colloquium. Given this year’s thematic focus on global governance and its implications for business in the 21st century the 2007 Colloquium will draw upon thought leadership across different disciplines, including political science and international relations, to support an in-depth debate on the questions raised about the balance in relationships between regulators, companies and their stakeholder groups.
Through this Call, we seek to examine the impact on business in society at the following three levels:
The Global, Supranational, International & Industry Sector Level
The National, Sub-National, Local/Regional and City Level
Company and Individual Manager/Executive Level
We hereby invite papers and research presentations from academics across a wide range of disciplines and reflective practitioners from business, government and civil society.
Please click on the following titles to download the relevant documents:
For all additional information please visit the EABIS Event website here
Location / Theme
The event will take place at ESADE Business School in Barcelona on September 20 and 21, and will have as central theme “The Emerging Global Governance Paradigm: The Role of Business and Its Implications for Companies, Stakeholders and Society”.
Swedish professor, Prof Dr Anders Aspling will be the new dean at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School starting this summer to follow in the footsteps of Roland Van Dierdonck, who has been the head of the School for nearly ten years.
Professor Van Dierdonck is the dean who bundled the strengths of Ghent University and K.U.Leuven into an independent business school with two campuses. He led Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School to three accreditations and a top position in European rankings, as well as to a third campus in St. Petersburg.
The new dean was president of IFL (Swedish Institute of Management) for seven years and Senior Vice president of SIAB (one of Sweden's largest and most international construction and real estate corporations) for five years. Currently, he is a senior associate of the MIL institute, another Swedish business school. He is also member of the board of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) since 1996 and as the head of the Global Responsibility Initiative for EFMD he launched a partnership with the United Nations and is developing a programme to ensure that the next generation of business leaders will act in a globally responsible way.
For further information please visit the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School website here or contact :
Vanessa Debruyne
Press relations officer
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
Tel.: +32 9 210 92 05
E-mail: vanessa.debruyne@vlerick.be
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