APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS
Dear all,
Below is the final call for papers for the CR3 conference which may be
of interest. Deadline for abstract is Nov.15th.
best regards,
Nikodemus Solitander, Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography
Hanken School of Economics
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CR3 Conference: The Power of Responsibility
April 8-9th, 2011, at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
The CR3 conference is a cooperation between three business schools;
Audencia Nantes School of Management (France), Hanken School of
Economics in Helsinki (Finland) and ISAE/FGV in Curitiba (Brazil). The
first CR3 conference will take place at Hanken School of Economics in
Helsinki, Finland on April 8th and 9th, 2011. Its theme is ‘the power of
responsibility’. The deadline for abstracts submissions is November 15th
2010.
The Power of Responsibility
The concepts of Corporate Responsibility (CR) and Global Responsibility
(GR) are reshaping the ways we think about business and society. From
global governance initiatives such as the UN Global Compact to local
efforts of greening offices, actions are taken in many areas to mobilize
organizations and individuals through the notion of responsibility in
order to work towards a more sustainable world. While much of the
groundwork on popularizing CSR/CR/GR has been prescriptive, focused on
'selling' Responsibility as a powerful principle that should be adopted
by all institutional actors and should lead the actions of managers and
employees, there is no doubt that CR has also become globally
influential as a real world phenomenon. This suggests that the academic
study of CR should now be ready for more descriptive accounts of both 1)
powerful CR actions that have contributed to make a positive difference
and 2) aspects of CR practice that are problematic, including in terms
of power relations and power effects. For this conference, we thus
encourage descriptive studies of both the positive and negative sides of
power.
Taking an explicit power perspective on CR can lead our discussions in
different directions. A few examples follow, but this list is far from
comprehensive. First, such a power perspective may be used to study
power relations within supply chains, for instance by showing how some
powerful corporations have been successful in applying demanding codes
of conduct in their entire supply chain, or by examining the potential
detrimental effects of bargaining power imbalances between small
suppliers and big companies. Second, it could be thought of in terms of
how stakeholder engagement may lead to an empowerment of traditionally
marginalized groups, or how stakeholder co-optation may aim to
neutralize progressive critique, or how stakeholder exclusion may render
certain groups powerless. Third, it may entail studying how the
'responsibilization' of the different actors works as a global project
of liberal governance, through a 'governmentality' lens: both the
productive and problematic aspects of power could be discussed. Fourth,
it may be expressed through a critique of CR discourse which tends to
downplay power dimensions through its 'win-win' bias and its oxymoronic
articulations: here too, it is important to make explicit 'the power of
responsibility'.
We conceive of this conference as a meeting space where it is possible
to exchange scholarly views from different geographical places,
disciplinary locations, and ideological positions. We welcome normative,
descriptive and critical contributions, both conceptual and empirical,
specifically aimed at one of eight streams:
1. Articulating the political role of business through CR: Paradigm
shift or business as usual?
2. Responsible Management Education: Beyond complacency and contestation
3. Business-NGO relations: Power, challenges and opportunities
4. CR and the Base of the Pyramid: Empowering the poor while exploiting
new markets?
5. CR in the Supply Chain
6. Differences within and/or outside organisations: Diversity as
Corporate Responsibility
7. Great expectations: Stakeholder Engagement for Global Responsibility
8. Social Responsibility Investors: How Do They Use Their Power? How Can
Corporations Respond to SRI Power?
Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Guido Palazzo, "The multinational
corporation as a political actor"
Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at HEC, University of
Lausanne and a visiting Fellow at the Universities of Oxford and
Nottingham. He has two main research interests, a) globalization and
corporate responsibility and b) ethical and unethical decision making in
corporations. His work is published in the Academy of Management Review,
the Journal of Management Studies, the Business Ethics Quarterly and the
Journal of Business Ethics. He is associate editor of the Business
Ethics Quarterly and the European Management Review. In 2008 he won the
Max-Weber Award for Business Ethics of the German Industry Association.
Guido Palazzo works with numerous multinational corporations and NGOs in
the field of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Important dates
• November 15, 2010: deadline for abstracts
• December 15, 2010: scientific committee decisions
• January 31, 2011: early-bird registration (€120 for doctoral students,
€200 for others)
• February 28, 2011: registration deadline (€150 for doctoral students,
€250 for others)
For more information please visit http://www.cr3.fi or write us at
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