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Dear Colleagues,

Welcome the Gronen research conference, organized by Aalto University School of Business and to be held in Helsinki, Finland 16.-18. June 2014.

The theme of the conference is: How can corporate responsibility tackle critical global sustainability challenges?

Within this theme Gronen 2014 conference focuses on research of corporate responsibility policies, strategies and activities, as well as the influence and impact of CR with regard to three broad global sustainability challenge areas, namely

•                          Climate change and scarcity of natural resources

•                          Global poverty and inequality

•                          Growth or degrowth – how and for whom?

More information about the conference is available at http://www.gronen2014.aalto.fi.

Linked with the conference there will be a special issue on Poverty, Business Strategy, and Sustainable Development in Organization & Environment. The Call is attached and is also available at SAGE O&E webpage (http://oae.sagepub.com), section O&E Call for Papers.  The direct link is http://oae.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/O&ECallsforPapers.pdf.

For those who want to connect the conference with a couple of days off, Helsinki in June offers the nightless night and other beautiful midsummer time experiences. You can also venture to St. Petersburg, Russia, with the historical Hermitage or take a ship tour to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia with a medieval old town.

Welcome to Gronen 2014 in Helsinki!

Minna Halme, Raimo Lovio & Frank Belz

Organizing Committee

Minna Halme, Ph.D.

Professor, Corporate Responsibility

Aalto University Business School

P.O.Box 21230

FI-00076 AALTO

Finland

e-mail: minna.halme@aalto.fi

tel. +358 40 353 8251

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