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2015 SEE CONFERENCE

Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE)

April 30- May 1, 2015 – Denver, Colorado

Call for Abstracts

The Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference draws on knowledge from diverse disciplines.  These include but are not limited to studies on sustainability, social entrepreneurship, business ethics, firm-community ties, and environmental impacts.  The fact that ethics and sustainability are intertwined with the concept of entrepreneurship is no longer new. Indeed, ethical choices are critical to any business activity and key to the success of startups, small firms, medium enterprises, and large, multinational corporations.  Some even suggest that the focus on sustainability, ethics, and entrepreneurship triangulates every economic opportunity and social value.  The goal of the conference is to lead the advancement and accumulation of knowledge about SEE-related topics.

This sharing of scholarly research is the foundation of the annual SEE Conference, which serves as a platform for discussing cutting-edge research, ideas and theories, while fostering collaborative efforts, and building a worldwide network of scholars who advance the state of knowledge about SEE-related research

Contributors are invited to submit abstracts (2 single-spaced pages not exceeding 1,250 words) that address a broad array of subjects on the topics of sustainability, ethics, and entrepreneurship (SEE). Those selected by a double-blind review process will be asked to present at either the "lightening presentation" sessions or interactive poster session on April 30, or paper presentation sessions on May 1.

Submitting an abstract signifies a commitment that at least one of the authors will participate in the conference.  Submitting an abstract also represents a commitment that the featured ideas are original and come from unpublished working papers.  Finally, the Academic Research portion of the Conference (ARC) is limited to 150 attendees; about 44 manuscripts; and 12 posters.  This low acceptance rate assures a high-quality scholarly event.

We invite submission of empirical and conceptual Abstracts.  We are particularly interested in radical, controversial, and "edgy" projects; novel, useful, and non-obvious research that challenges dogmas and is highly revelatory, even if not fully grounded in well-studied or well-validated theory. 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

·        How does strategy differ when firms are not constituted as vehicles of private wealth accumulation but are owned by communities of members or government?

·        In a capitalist system, wealth and value are measured in monetary units: what is social value, how is social value measured, and how do social value and economic value interact and shape each other?

·        Free markets and competition have brought many benefits (e.g., the average individual material wellbeing has improved markedly, even if the variance is distressing). How does this increasing but uneven material prosperity relate to human 

      wellbeing, sustainability and entrepreneurship? 

·        How does market competition affect the fabric of trust and social value within and between different organizational forms?

·        How does one gain better understanding of sustainable and ethical entrepreneurship?

·        What are most useful conceptual models and empirical analysis of the antecedents, consequences, and contingencies associated with the processes of sustainable and ethical entrepreneurship?

·        What is the role of ethical behavior in the growth, survival, and sustainability of new ventures?

·        What are the roles of economic and institutional systems in motivating ethical and sustainable behaviors?