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IABS Sydney 2014 Submission System now open

  • 1.  IABS Sydney 2014 Submission System now open

    Posted 10-13-2013 22:17

    Dear colleagues

     

    I'm happy to advise that the submission system for the IABS 2014 Sydney conference is now open. See: http://www.iabs.net/Conference/SubmitNow.aspx  Remember that a 3-5 page abstract is due Monday 2 December.

     

    The 'call for papers' is reproduced below.

     

    Also, we are now actively soliciting expressions of interest for the doctoral consortium to be help as part of the Sydney conference. The program is being co-ordinated by Dr Michelle Greenwood (Monash University) with the help of Linh Nguyen (University of Sydney). We have secured Professor Ed Freeman as a key participant. Please draw this to the attention of your doctoral students. Full details will be posted under the 'Conference' tab of the IABS website this week: http://www.iabs.net

     

    Follow Sydney 2014 on Facebook for regular updates: http://www.facebook.com/IABS2014   and also join our LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com IABS Sydney 2014

     

    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

     

    _______________________________________

    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

    Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code 00113B

     


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