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International Association of Business & Society (IABS)
Annual Conference
19-22 June 2014
Sydney Australia
Reclaiming the societal dimension:
New Perspectives on 'society and business'
The past 25 years has witnessed considerable development in our understanding of the relationship between society and business. But, mostly our scholarship has placed business at the centre of this analysis. What happens when we take society's perspective? What social issues, challenges and impacts should business address? What is the study of 'society and business' meant to achieve? Is it about 'giving something back' or something more fundamental in terms of how business interacts with society?
A lot of our work has fine-tuned descriptive accounts of how managers need to (and should) consider stakeholders, social performance and social and environmental impacts in order to ensure their legitimacy, continued survival and prosperity. A lot of it has attempted to institutionalise a new, moral language for business. But are there more fundamental objectives to consider?
The theme of the 25th anniversary IABS conference invites you to consider the broader societal, normative and political objectives of our field. Can (should) CSR be transformational of business organisations? Do we need to re-think the role and purpose of business in the context of global social and environmental challenges? Do CSR and our society and business theorising have sufficient intellectual strength to envisage fundamental change in the society and business relationship?
Reviewers for the conference will assess the relevance of the proposal in terms its contribution to the conference theme, as well as a broad range of business & society topics; thus proposals are not required to relate specifically to the conference theme. Given that the 2014 conference will also be the 25th anniversary IABS conference we are also seeking contributions that reflect the past 25 years of work in our field.
We particularly welcome 'experimental' work – ideas that are not necessarily fully formed, but represent innovative attempts to make sense of Business & Society phenomena in new ways. A doctoral consortium and workshop will also be part of this conference. Please bring this to the attention of your doctoral students.
Proposals must conform to submission requirements, and should be submitted electronically by Monday December 2, 2013.
Full submission instructions are posted at http://www.iabs.net
For further information contact the 2014 Program Chair, Dr Colin Higgins: c.higgins@deakin.edu.au
This conference is proudly supported by the Centre for Sustainable and Responsible Organisations (CSaRO) at Deakin University: http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/research/csaro/ and the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility: http://www.accsr.com
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Dr Colin Higgins
Deakin Graduate School of Business
Faculty of Business & Law
Deakin University
Melbourne Burwood Campus
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood, Victoria 3125
AUSTRALIA
Telephone: +61 3 92445046
c.higgins@deakin.edu.au
http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/gsb/staff/profiles/higgins.php
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