Archive for September, 2009

ICCSR 7TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM – CALL FOR PAPERS

The Seventh Annual ICCSR Symposium is intended to discuss corporate innovation as it relates to poverty alleviation in local communities in developing countries.

We are interested in conceptual, theoretical or empirical papers that present new research insights, ideas on business models, strategies and stakeholder engagement processes that a) respond to factors contributing to poverty; and b) advance sustainable community development in developing countries.

We are inviting multidisciplinary papers which contribute knowledge on how companies are transforming value chain activities to benefit local communities. The papers can cover, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Corporations and community (and, or social) enterprise development

• Corporations and community asset-building

• Business approaches towards community empowerment and capacity building

• Social partnerships and Stakeholder engagement.

Authors interested in submitting a paper for presentation at the symposium should submit an abstract of 1,000 words to judy.muthuri@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday, 11th December 2009.

The ICCSR will also be preparing a special issue of Business & Society on this topic, to be edited by Prof. Jeremy Moon, Dr. Judy Muthuri and Dr Uwafiokun Idemudia. Papers presented at the symposium would be considered along with those responding to the journal’s own call for papers.

A more extensive outline is now available to download from www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/iccsr

International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR)

Nottingham University Business School

Jubilee Campus

Wollaton Road

Nottingham NG8 1BB

Tel: +44 (0) 115 846 6976

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“Your world, your business”

From the DG Enterprise and Industry website:

YOUR WORLD, YOUR BUSINESS is a collaborative partnership between the European Commission and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise. It promotes European policy objectives in the areas of corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurship education.

YOUR WORLD, YOUR BUSINESS initiative aims to inspire young people “to become the kind of entrepreneurs our society increasingly needs: creative, dynamic, and determined to make the world a better place.”

The main audience are young people aged 16-19, and their teachers, too.

The teacher’s guide and the accompanying videos are available in 24 different languages and can be downloaded from the site.

For more info write at: entr-csr@ec.europa.eu

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