CALL FOR PAPERS: EBEN RC 2015: Business Ethics and Philosophy of Management, 1-3 October 2015, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Conference website: http://www.tilmeld.dk/EBEN2015/the-event.html
All special tracks: http://www.tilmeld.dk/EBEN2015/special-tracks.html
Business, society and nature
Contact Person: Anna Heikkinen, email: Anna.L.Heikkinen@staff.uta.fi
To meet the urgent social and environmental challenges of sustainable development, research on how to bridge the gap between economy and society is needed. Addressing and adopting sustainability in business has both practical and theoretical challenges; addressing complex sustainability issues requires collaboration with various stakeholder and knowledge that might not be ordinarily found in companies existing repertoire or experience (e.g. Clarke & Roome 1999, Loorbarch et al. 2010). In addition, there is an urgent need for theorising on how business organisations and professionals can engage with sustainability (e.g. Starik & Kanashiro 2013). In this track, we are interested in how business organisation, society and nature interact and collaborate for sustainable development as well as in challenges and opportunities of such interaction. Specifically, this track focuses on how current and future challenges related to physical, social and also cultural changes in society are perceived and attended to in organisations.
We invite paper presentations offering novel and critical insights into the relations and intercourses that arise in business, society and nature interactions. We welcome both theoretical and empirical paper presentations and a variety of methodological choices. The topics of interest for this track include, but are not limited to:
· business, society and nature relations
· corporate sustainability and sustainable development in organisations
· climate change engagement and management in organisations
· business-stakeholder interaction
· nature as a stakeholder
· value creation in business-stakeholder-nature interactions
· ethical aspects of business, society and nature relations
Track organisers: Dr. Anna Heikkinen, University of Tampere, Finland; Dr. Sarah Williams, University of Bedfordshire Business School, UK; Associate professor Johanna Kujala, University of Tampere, Finland
Paper submissions
- We accept the following types of submissions: academic papers, extended abstracts, practitioner
contributions, panel proposals, doctoral workshops, and full papers for possible publication in a special issue
of Business & Society Review. Other Special issues for journals may follow.
- All submissions should be send to following email address: eben2015@cbs.dk.
- Please, do not email your contributions to the organizers and/or track convener.
- Papers should not exceed 20 pages
- Extended abstracts should be approximately 3 pages