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ICCSR 10^th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE CSR FUTURES: KNOWLEDGE & PRACTICE

NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL, JUBILEE CAMPUS, NOTTINGHAM

26^TH & 27^TH APRIL 2012 

In recent years CSR has emerged as both a sub-field of business and management studies and as a basic management concept.  In essence it refers to business responsibility to and for society but the meaning of these terms alone has provoked controversy. So where is CSR going?  Is this just a matter of issues and context?  Or is CSR acquiring some stable attributes?  If, so what are these attributes and what explains them?  Is CSR becoming institutionalised, and again, if so how and why?  Is the future CSR more about responsibility, a business case, ethics, sustainability, or even compliance.

This two day conference marks the 10^th Anniversary of the founding of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility.

The conference will consist of eight parallel streams with over 70 papers accepted for:

Asian CSR and its Dynamics

Beyond the Attitude-Behaviour Gap: Novel Perspectives on Consumer Ethics

Business and Development: Moving Forward on MDGSs

CSR Context and Dynamics

CSR & Governance: Comparative and International Perspectives

CSR Impact: Beyond Financial Performance

Leadership for Sustainability

Organisations in Transition – Exploring the Role of Accounting and Reporting for Organisational Change toward Sustainability

There will also be combine practitioner and academic keynote presentations and practitioner and academic panels which will address the broad question of CSR futures. 

Keynote speakers:

Professor Tom Donaldson, Mark O. Winkelman Professor in Ethics & Law at the Wharton, School of the University of Pennsylvania

Professor Ruth Aguilera, Associate Professor in Business Administration, Labor, Industrial Relations, Sociology & Law, University of Illinois

Clare Short (Secretary of State for International Development, 1997 to 2003, MP for Ladywood 1983 – 2010; Chair, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) 

Academic Panel:

Professor Jeremy Moon, Director of the ICCSR (Chair)

Professor Andy Crane, George R Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics, Schulich School of Business

Professor Jean-Pascal Gond, Visiting Professor of Management, HEC Montreal

Professor Dima Jamali, American University of Beirut

Professor Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility, Schulich School of Business

Professor Ken Starkey, Professor of Management & Organisational Learning, Nottingham University Business School

Practitioner Panel:

Peter Lacy, Managing Director Sustainability Services, Accenture (Chair)

Gerry Boyle, Head of Business Relations, Oxfam

Will Oulton, European Head of Responsible Investment, Mercer

Thomas Thomas, Executive Director, Singapore Compact for CSR

On-line registration has now opened.  For further details visit our website www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/iccsr