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The Next Generation ESG Workshop: One-on-one Scholarly Training for Select PhD students - Submissions are due February 1, 2011

Purpose

The Next Generation Workshop focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues is a three-day event that will gather together promising young doctoral researchers and world-leading experts in ESG-related research for the purpose of fostering these young researchers' talents. Junior researchers can often benefit from the opportunity to meet and establish contacts with international experts early in their careers. Therefore, the Next Generation ESG Workshop aims to establish a dialogue between present and future ESG researchers. This will involve scholars from different disciplines, given that ESG challenges are not confined to a narrow disciplinary lens.

Three internationally recognized experts will be invited to the EuroMed Management – Marseille campus the week of May 23, 2011 – along with four or five doctoral students who will be selected competitively – in conjunction with the Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium sponsored by the State Street Foundation. The experts and students will engage in a series of presentations and discussions (including detailed one-on-one feedback between expert and student), with the goal of promoting research in the ESG area. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in the internationally recognized Bentley teaching business ethics workshop occurring the same week.

The 2010 Next Generation ESG Workshop features three academic guests:

Monika Winn

Monika Winn is an Associate Professor of Business Strategy & Sustainability, Francis G. Winspear Scholar and the Faculty's Champion for Sustainability & Social Responsibility at the University of Victoria. Her teaching and research target the many aspects of business and sustainability, and her primary research interest is on organizational and institutional change related to the challenges of sustainability. Recent research streams focus on (1) leveraging social and environmental issues in business for progressive strategic action; (2) integrating business strategy with nature's functioning principles; (3) climate change impacts for business, and (4) implications of sustainable "Base of the Pyramid" approaches for marketing to the poorest of the poor.

Her research has been published in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Business and Society, Journal of Business Venturing, British Journal of Management and others. She actively collaborates with colleagues in several international research networks, spanning Europe, North America and Australia. She has been a contributor to the Greening of Industry Network since its beginnings, and co-founded and chaired the international Academy of Management's "Organizations and the Natural Environment" group.

Dr. Winn has international teaching experience, including executive education on Corporate Sustainability in Canada, the United States and Australia (in the Sustainable Enterprise Academy, the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, University of Queensland) and at the University of California (Santa Barbara and Irvine). Prior to attaining her PhD in 1996, Dr. Winn founded and ran a successful business in Southern California. (http://www.business.uvic.ca/faculty_staff/faculty/view/40)

Andrew Millington

Andrew Millington is the director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society at the University of Bath. He has researched widely into the relationships between business and society. His current work focuses on two discrete but related projects. First, the motivation and management of corporate social performance; key themes in this project emphasize the role of organizational characteristics, corporate strategy, stakeholder pressures, and industry conditions as stimulants of corporate social performance and its organization and management within the corporation. Second, the interface between the cultural and institutional environment in China and the Chinese operations of UK and US firms. Key issues include the relationships between ethical conduct and guanxi in different business contexts and the impact of institutional and cultural factors on the management of relationships within and between organizations in China. He has obtained funding from the EPSRC, the ESRC, the European Commission, the DTI and the Welsh Office and has published in leading management journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Business and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies and the Cambridge Journal of Economics. (http://www.bath.ac.uk/cbos/members/millington.html)

Ann K. Buchholtz

Ann Buchholtz is the Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Rutgers Business School  where she also serves as Research Director of the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership, developing courses and programs to fulfill the organization's mission of promoting and strengthening ethical leadership among current and future business leaders.

Buchholtz received her Ph.D. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored numerous articles that examine the intersection of business ethics, social issues and corporate governance. Her work has been published in Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, Organization Science, the Journal of Management Studies, Corporate Governance an International Review, among others, and presented in numerous national and international conferences.

She serves on the editorial boards of Business & Society and Business Ethics Quarterly. Buchholtz is the chairperson of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, where she was a member of the ethics task force that designed a Code of Ethics for the Academy, and she served as the inaugural chairperson of the Academy's Ethics Adjudication Committee. In teaching, Buchholtz was awarded the "Trailblazer Advocate of the Year" award for her service learning programs, which taught business students to use their skills to effect positive changes in society. She is the recipient of many other teaching awards including Profound Effect on a Student Leader and various Outstanding Teaching Awards. (http://business.rutgers.edu/newsDetail.aspx?id=379)

Student Selection

The Next Generation ESG Workshop will invite doctoral students who are working in relevant areas to apply for participation via a call for papers. It is expected that candidates will come from institutions from all over the world and from different theoretical and methodological traditions. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, the three-day seminar will invite applications from students in disciplines including management, accountancy, political science, philosophy, economics, environmental studies, information systems and sociology, to name a few. Participants must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program, preferably in their 2nd or 3rd year, and their research must be ESG-related.

Students will be chosen on the basis of a 5000-7000 word paper submission, evaluated by a conference coordinating committee, prior to the workshop. The selection will be based on each paper's relevance to the conference focus, quality of research, practical relevance and clarity of research description. Selection will be competitive with four or five students chosen. Students selected will be awarded all expense stipends for travel and participation. 

Please email submissions to:

Cynthia Clark Williams, PhD

Director, Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance                     

Bentley University

175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
ccwilliams@bentley.edu