European Union–Mexico

10 Years of The Free trade Ageement

Book publishing

Call for Chapters

In the 1980's Mexico significantly transformed its international economic policy from protectionism to trade-liberalization. Two of the most notable occurrences in this framework were the formation of the North American Free Trade Area in 1994 and the Mexican – European Free Trade Agreement, which entered into force in 2000. Both granted Mexico a preferential access to two of the most important and dominating markets of the world.

Due to their strong commercial ties, the Mexican - US relations in the context of NAFTA have been analyzed in profusion by academic literature. On the other hand, even with the entry into force of the EU - Mexico Free Trade Agreement, EU´s position as Mexico´s second most important trading partner and the recent classification of Mexico as a "Strategic Partner" of the EU, little reference has been made to the legal, commercial and business relations of this partnership.

To enrich the discussion in this field and in the context of the EU - Mexico FTA 10^th year anniversary to be commemorated on October 1^st 2010, the Endowed Research Chair in European Studies on Development and Competitiveness (Cátedra Estudios Europeos sobre Desarrollo y Competitividad,) of the School for Government, Social Sciences and Humanities of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) headed by Dra. María de Lourdes Dieck Assad, former Ambassador of Mexico for the European Union, invites to the contribution for the working title:

"EU-Mexican Legal, Commercial and Business Relations"

Covering topics involving:

The abstracts of about 300-400 words in length should be sent no later than July 31st, 2009 to Gerhard Niedrist gerhard.niedrist@itesm.mx">gerhard.niedrist@itesm.mx, Associate Professor at the Masters Program of International Law at ITESM. Submitted abstracts for chapters will be reviewed for acceptance by a group comprised researchers from the organizing institution. Response on whether abstracts are accepted will be sent to submitters by September 2009. Final chapters (about 10,000 words including footnotes and references) should be submitted by February 29^th 2010. The final papers should be in English and will be published through a major international publisher in the first half of 2010.

The final papers will be presented as one stream at the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Mexican Independence Conference to be held in Monterrey, México in September 2010.

Dear colleagues

Please note , attached call for chapters for edited volume on Corporate Social Action.

Looking forward to your submission

Ronny Manos and Israel Drori

Call for Chapters

Global Perspectives of Corporate Social Action and Social and Financial Performance

Editors :

Ronny Manos (School of Management, Cranfield University, UK and College of Management ,

Academic Studies, Israel) and  Israel Drori (College of Management, Academic Studies, Israel )

Publisher :

Palgrave-Macmillan

Scope :

Corporate Social Action has recently been gaining increasing scholarly attention and is becoming a focal topic of business research. In this book we aim to focus on the interactions and interrelationship between Corporate Social Action, Corporate Social Performance (CSP) and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP). Indeed, the linkage between Corporate Social Action, CSP and CFP presents as yet unresolved issues.  In particular, studies are inconclusive on the nature of the impact of a stakeholder-oriented Corporate Social Action on social and financial performance .

This edited volume welcomes studies that seek further insight on this issue. Although current studies on the linkage between Corporate Social Action and performance often take the narrowly-based perspective of the firm, we seek submissions with broad-based perspectives.  Specifically, we encourage submissions that consider a diverse range of stakeholders, policies, business models and cases.  In line with recent trends that see Corporate Social Action being adapted by companies the world over, we also encourage submissions that analyze international aspect and diverse local contexts and models .

Topics covered :

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following :

•           The relation between Corporate Social Action, Corporate Social performance (CSP) and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP ).

•           Analysis of stakeholder perspectives on the balance between CSP and CFP in different industrial contexts and societies .

•           Case studies .

•           The role of media in shaping corporate strategy relating to Corporate Social Action .

•           Revisiting conceptual models of Corporate Social Action and performance .

•           Issues of Corporate Social Action, legitimacy, identity and reputation .

•           Evaluation models of CSP .

•           The evolution of Corporate Social Action .

•           International aspects of Corporate Social Action and social and financial performance .

•           The relationship between Corporate Social Action, ethics and HR issues .

•           Corporate Social Action  and sustainability .

Procedures :

•           Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers by 15th of September, 2014 .

•           Submissions will be reviewed on a double-blind basis and notifications will be sent to authors by 15th December, 2015 .

•           Last draft is accepted by 15th February, 2015 .

•           Tentative date for publication of the edited book is September 2015 .

Address for submission and further queries :

Ronny Manos, at: rmanos@colman.ac.il