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Dear All,

The Fifth CR3+ conference, co-organized by Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland), Audencia School of Management (Nantes, France), ISAE/FGV (Curitiba, Brazil) and La Trobe University Business School (Melbourne, Australia) will take place at Hanken in Helsinki on April 28-29 2017.

The overall theme of the conference is 'Making Corporate Responsibility useful'. Until now the concept of Corporate Responsibility / Corporate Social Responsibility (hereafter CR), as used in business studies, may have been mostly made useful from the perspective of the 'business case', as exemplified by the long debate around the alleged positive relationship between Corporate Social Performance (CSP) and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP). Too often, while the supposed positive impacts of CR on the business bottom line have been a key claim for legitimizing CR practice in business, business schools and business journals, the impacts on society have tended to be less closely investigated, or only from a win-win perspective focusing on obvious positive impacts without problematizing potential negative externalitiesIn this conference, we wish to stimulate reflections and research on making CR useful not only for business (and not only in a narrow financial sense) but also from the perspectives of (1) society as a whole, (2) non-business actors, and (3) research. Thus, we invite papers that explicitly think in terms of making CR useful from a number of (partially overlapping) subthemes/sessions:

1.       Making CR useful for business firms and entrepreneurs

2.       Making CR work better for the common good / communities / society

3.       Making CR useful for/through non-business actors

4.       Making CR useful for research

5.       Social impact, responsibility and responsibilization in/of magement education and research

6.      Critical issues in the organization of labour, human resource management and its consequences and impacts over workers health and their subjectivity

7.       'Corporatization' and CR

8.      Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains

9.      Environmental, Social And Governance (ESG) Data: Exploring Its Usefulness

10.  Social and Human Sustainability Within and around Work Organisations

11.  Exploring CSR and Innovation

The deadline for a 500-1000 words abstract to be sent to ccr@hanken.fi and theme/sub-theme/session convenors is October 31 (acceptance in streams will be based on those abstracts, announced by November 15) and the deadline for full paper will be March 31. We will look into the possibility of a special issue to which the better papers may be submitted.

More details regarding the different themes/sub-themes, call for papers and registration can be found at www.cr3.fi.

 Please note that the deadline for a 500-1000 words abstract to be sent to ccr@hanken.fi is October 31, 2016 (acceptance in streams will be based on those abstracts, announced by November 15) and the deadline for full paper will be March 31, 2017.

Any queries in relation to the conference should  be directed to ccr@hanken.fi.