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Call for Abstracts + Call for PDW Applicants

The 2016 Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference

Dates: May 15-18, 2016

Location:    Denver, Colorado -- USA
Conference Website:  http://seeconf.org

Submission Deadline:   January 24, 2016

         
1) Abstracts: Scholars 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 (including social and impact entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, etc.). Those selected by a double-blind review process will be asked to present their research. 

Submission Deadline:   January 24, 2016

Authors should submit their abstracts at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEE2016/ 

2) PDW: Assistant Professors & Ph.D. students are invited to apply for the Paper Development Workshop (PDW) that is sponsored by the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) and the Kaufmann Foundation. The PDW will feature addresses from senior scholars, discussions by journal editors, and paper development sessions with experienced mentors.  

Submission Deadline:   March 1, 2016

Please email your full paper and a CV to dan.bruder@bbradvisorygroup.com

Inquiries about the PDW: gideon.markman@colostae.edu

Background

The Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference draws on knowledge from diverse disciplines.  These include but are not limited to studies on sustainability, social & sustainable entrepreneurship, business ethics, firm-community ties, environmental impacts, and resource management.  

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 ecological consideration, social value, and economic opportunity.  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 Academic Research Conference, which serves as a platform for featuring edgy 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

Submitting an abstract signifies a commitment that at least one of the authors will participate in the conference if the abstract is accepted.  Submitting an abstract also represents a commitment that the featured ideas are original and come from unpublished working papers.  

We invite submission of empirical research (including ethnographic and qualitative research) and conceptual studies.  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?

 

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline                                        January 24, 2016

PDW Submission                                                            March 1, 2016

Abstract Acceptance Notification                                   March 4, 2016

Registration Opens                                                          March 1, 2016

Preliminary Program Published                                       April 4, 2016

Events:

PDW                                                                                May 15 – 16, 2016

Conference                                                                      May 16 – 18, 2016

For more information visit http://seeconf.org

Or contact:

Dan Bruder, SEE Conference Director (dan.bruder@bbradvisorygroup.com)

Amy Guerber, Abstract Submission Director (SEEConference2016@gmail.com),

Tom Dean, Organizer (Tom.Dean@business.colostate.edu)

Jeff York, Director (Jeffrey.York@colorado.edu), PDW
Gideon Markman, Organizer (Gideon.Markman@Colostate.edu

Mark , Organizer (markpete@uwyo.edu)

Craig VanSandt, Organizer (craig.vansandt@uni.edu)

Maritza Espina, Organizer (mespina@suagm.edu)

Yolanda Sarason, Organizer (yolanda.sarason@business.colostate.edu)