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Hi all

 

Tima Bansal, Guler Aras, David Crowther and I would like to invite interested members of SIM, ONE and PNP Divisions to a caucus we have organized (see description below). If you are not familiar with a caucus session the Academy's description is "Caucuses offer AOM members who share a topical interest or a professional concern to find one another, hold an informal discussion, and develop a sense of community."

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

Monday, Aug 10 2009 9:45AM - 11:15AM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Skyway 283

Organizer: Robert Brent Anderson; U. of Regina;
Organizer: Pratima Bansal; U. of Western Ontario;
Organizer: David Crowther; De Montfort U.;
Organizer: Guler Aras; Yýldýz Technical U.;

The organizers of the caucus Enterprising Our World: Sustainable Business in Action are David Crowther and Guler Aras of the Social Responsibility Research Network (http://www.socialresponsibility.biz) (SRRN), Pratima Bansal, Executive Director, Network for Business Sustainability (http://www.sustainabilityresearch.org) (NBS) and Robert Anderson Chair of the 2010 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) 2010 Annual Conference titled Enterprising Our World: Sustainable Business in Action (http://asac2010.uregina.ca) and incoming president of ASAC for 2010-2011. The purpose of the caucus is to bring together members of the SRRN and NBS networks along with interested members of the AoM Social Issues in Management (SIM) and Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Divisions and others, to explore areas of common interest and opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange. We will hold follow-up sessions at the ASAC conference in June 2010, and at annual conferences of the SRRN. After very brief presentations about the SRRN, NBS and ASAC 2010, we propose to focus on five topics in particular and will encourage attendees to break into moderated discussion groups on each.

 

1. The influence of CSR and sustainability activities on the market's evaluation of publicly-traded companies.

2. Encouraging, measuring and evaluating and rewarding CSR and sustainability activities within the firm.

3. Globalization, regulation and competition, and the implications of CSR and sustainability activities for long-term competitive advantage.

4. Global approaches to regulation of environmental impacts

5. Managing sustainable development in a global economy in a time of crisis.

 

Other topics can be added should they emerge at the caucus.

 

 

Robert Anderson Ph.D., CMA, Editor

Journal of Enterprising Communities

Paul J. Hill School of Business

University of Regina

Regina, SK Canada  S4S 0A2

robert.anderson@uregina