Archive for August, 2009

Responsibility Across Borders

Global Dialogue Conference 2009 www.globaldialogueconference.org
Responsibility—climate change as challenge for intercultural inquiry on values
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

An international conference that will bring together the world’s leading experts on responsible investments, corporate responsibility, intercultural ethics and political theory, environmental journalism, and intercultural education for sustainability.

Climate change requires globally concerted actions, but our moral principles of action are local: They are tied to a culture or religion, and often in conflict with each other.
Can we develop a notion of joint global ecological responsibility? This is the most important question in the debate about climate protection, since motivation is the key to change and responsibility across borders is the key to global change.
Here is why this conference stands out and might be of extra importance to you:

  • Cross-cultural differences in value commitments and models of responsibility matter for intercultural marketing, management, and negotiation in transcultural contexts.
  • The conference will present cutting edge research on socially responsible investment networks and corporate social and ecological responsibility.
  • The conference will offer practitioners a forum for critical discussion of problematic aspects of the implementation of corporate responsibility in transcultural contexts of communication and organization.
  • In praxis report sessions practitioners may showcase successful implementations of corporate social or ecological responsibility.
  • Conference sponsors (silver and gold sponsors) may participate in a broadcasted panel discussion with journalists, business research experts, and activists, to discuss whether businesses are merely ‘green-washing’ their interests or aim for genuinely responsible actions.

For more information visit www.globaldialogueconference.org or contact the conference manager: Jacob Bock, filbock@hum.au.dk

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Save the Date – International CSR-Conferences 2009 and 2010 in Beijing and Berlin

4th International Conference on
Corporate Social Responsibility
September 22-24, 2010

Save the Date

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please SAVE THE DATE for the 4th International Conference on CSR at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin scheduled for September 22 – 24, 2010. This highly successful conference has now become a bi-annual event and attracts leading scholars and practitioners. A Call-for-Papers will be made available soon as well as early registration and hotel bookings via the conference homepage: www.csr-hu-berlin.org.

We are pleased to make available a DVD about the plenary sessions from the last CSR-conference in 2008. These include presentations, for instance by A. Michael Spence (Stanford), Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia), Pietra Rivoli (Georgetown), Bradley K. Googins & Sandra Waddock (Boston College), Edward R. Freeman (Virginia), Dirk Matten (York) as well as a number of corporate speakers. For orders go to www.csr-hu-berlin.org.

1st Peking-Humboldt-University Conference on
Corporate Social Responsibility
October 23-25, 2009
Peking University, Guanghua School of Management

You might also be interested in attending the regional CSR-conference in Beijing (China), October 23-25, 2009, jointly organized by the Peking University, Guanghua School of Management and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Management. For details see www.csr-hu-berlin.org or contact us directly.

For more information and questions regarding both conferences contact us at info@csr-hu-berlin.org.

Looking forward to seeing you again.

Joachim Schwalbach & Anja Schwerk

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute of Management
schwal@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
schwerk@wiwi.hu-berlin.de

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