Call for chapters

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AS A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE James A.F. Stoner, Fordham University, & Charles Wankel, St. John’s University, New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

This book is in a new sustainability series published by Palgrave Macmillan.  Chapter are anticipated to be about 6000-7000 words.

We are interested in chapters on business logic for sustainability.  Chapters might examine this through various different prisms, such as a legal one, an industry one, a technological one, or a social one.  How these sorts of perspectives overlap in helpful or unhelpful ways would be of interest too.

We invite chapters on new models of business sustainability.  That is, how business, resources, and people fit together in a sustainability business model.  We hope that some authors will parse the systems nature of the “global sustainability equation” and of the task ahead of us in achieving global sustainability and then maintaining it as an ongoing, evolving, and continually changing situation.  We are interested in coverage of how entrepreneurs are stepping away from traditional business practices by adopting sustainability.  Cases will be critically assessed.  As customers become green focused it will become a more and more competitive requirement for companies to align with them.

We are also interested in action implications.  Assessing corporate environmental performance is a topic we are keenly interested in receiving chapter proposals on.  We invite chapters on corporate citizenship in the area of environmental stewardship.  Such factors as compliance with national and local laws, product design and packaging, energy efficiency, and minimization of toxic releases might be included.  Transportation industry’s sustainability opportunities would be a wonderful chapter to include.  Such a chapter might examine those things that make transport non-sustainable such as local air quality problems. It will then consider how every transportation mode and the entire system of transportation can be reoriented to fit with a sustainable future.  Another topic we are interested in is the role of microfinance and microenterprise in the development, adoption, and diffusion of sustainable technologies.  This chapter might discuss knowledge transfer from the developing to the developed world in the domain of economics and governance for sustainable development. Areas explored might include: the structure of commons governance institutions and the process of community-based participatory action research.

Motivating business is an important constellation of chapter topics for us.  We are interested in reports on redoing business curricula to emphasize global sustainability issues.  Empowerment for sustainability is an issue we hope to receive a chapter on.  This might discuss how average people in any organization can move toward sustainability. It might consider the manufacturing services and government sectors and also functions including top management, marketing, public relations, purchasing, facilities management, human resource management, finance and accounting, and health and safety.  Another topic we hope to receive a chapter submission on is the role of corporate boards in sustainability issues.  We have found that this topic is not covered much at all yet and would be great terra incognita for you to invade.  A proposal might consider corporate responsibility and sustainability management by corporate boards of directors who are taking a role in overseeing associated risks and opportunities. The consideration by boards of the interdependencies between environmental, social and financial performance, regulation, accountability, transparency and corporate governance, and potential impacts of climate change on business operations is increasing. Environmental awards is a topic we find undercovered in the literature.  We hope it is one that you might decide to tackle for a chapter in our volume.  Prestigious awards such as the Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement and the Global 500 Role of Honor for Environmental Achievement can engage companies and their people towards realizing great sustainability improvement. Such a chapter might consider the changes in organizations who have put themselves into consideration for such awards and how such awards might be adapted to spur on even more environmental change.

Another area that we wish several chapters on is that of business transformations of its environment.  Designing green business facilities would be a great chapter.  Transforming business energy use in urban environments could be a chapter that might consider what businesses in urban environments can do to maximize global sustainability. A prominent would be a focus on energy use.  The impact of global industrial supply chains on sustainable development in developing countries is another important topic we solicit chapters on.  The change in developing countries’ abilities to handle cutting-edge technologies suggests that they are more able to handle cutting-edge environmental approaches and controls to the regulation and sensible planning of development.  Re-educating consumers is an important topic.  A chapter on this might have such themes and content as:  “No brainers” — absolutely obvious things all of us should do, and some of us are already doing, to improve our well-being by reducing wasteful, dissatisfaction-inducing consumption and by switching to more sustainability-friendly, more satisfying ways and consuming.

Finally, we would like to have chapters on new directions to new sustainable futures from the nebulous present in business.  This chapter might contain thoughts on what business needs to be doing and how it can be made to see what it needs to be doing.

Chapter proposals may be of any length but ideally about 200 words.  You should brief biographies of you and your coauthors, including terminal degrees, current affiliation, current rank, related publications, and contact information including office, mobile, Skype, email, and your home page.  Send your proposal to both James Stoner stoner@fordham.edu and Charles Wankel wankelc@stjohns.edu .  Our deadline for receipt of proposals is December 7, 2009.  We anticipate sending final drafts to the publisher in April of 2010 with publication in the fall of 2010.

CSR in Europe

A view on CSR developments in Europe HERE

IBM CSR Study

Interesting study from IBM here: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/csr-study-2009.html

Call for chapters

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AS A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE a volume in the Palgrave Sustainability Series

JAMES A.F. STONER AND CHARLES WANKEL, Editors

Chapter proposals are solicited, particularly on the following topics: Business Logic for Sustainability, Sustainability as a Business Model, Assessing Corporate Environmental Performance, The Transportation Industry’s Sustainability Opportunities, Redoing Business Curricula to Emphasize Global Sustainability Issues, Empowerment for Sustainability, The Role of Corporate Boards in Sustainability Issues, Environmental Awards, Designing Green Business Facilities, Transforming Business Energy Use in Urban Environments, The Impact of Global Industrial Supply Chains on Sustainable Development in Developing Countries, Re-Educating Consumers, New Directions to New Futures from the Nebulous Present.

Proposals of any length will be considered. However, the more detailed proposals are, the more likely they will result in acceptance. Proposals should be accompanied by brief biographies including the chapter authors’ terminal degrees, current institutional affiliations, listing of related publications, and contact information (ideally including email, phone, mobile, and Skype). Chapter proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis until we have an excellent complement of chapters. This is to enable accepted authors to commence work directly. Send your proposal to BOTH stoner@fordham.edu  and wankelc@stjohns.edu  for consideration. Chapters will be due in April. First drafts are expected February 15th to enable review and revision. Chapters should approximate 6000 words. Publication is anticipated in the second half of 2010.

CSR Lectureship – University of Bath

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAF149/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-corporate-social-responsibility/

Lectureship

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer In Corporate Governance And Sustainability

Nottingham Trent University – College Of Business, Law And Social Sciences, Nottingham Business School

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAE727/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-corporate-governance-and-sustainability/

EABIS 2010 Colloquium on September 20/21 Announcement

The 2010 EABIS Colloquium will be hosted by St. Petersburg State University School of Management and focus on the Role of Corporate Responsibility and Governance in Emerging Economies. Please note that the 2010 Colloquium will take place on 20-21 September. The PhD Conference will be on September 22.

Call for papers

“Responsible Management Education: Sustainable Leadership in the era of Climate Change” Contributing to the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) in December 2009, Copenhagen Business School will host an international conference (23-24 November) on sustainable leadership and climate change in partnership with the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and the support of EABIS as a co-convener. The main focus of the conference will be on how business schools can help solve the climate crisis through new educational approaches, sustainable leadership, innovative business models and new forms of partnerships. The conference organisers invite participants from the broadest possible backgrounds: business representatives concerned about competencies of their future managers and employees; business schools’ and research centers’ faculty staff and other scholars of social science interested in climate change research and responsible education of future managers; NGOs and governmental officers working for responsible and sustainable education programmes as well as students interested in influencing their own curriculum. Questions to be discussed, among others, are the role and responsibility of business schools and the contributions social science and business theory can make in the context of climate change. To see the full programme, register and all practical information please visit www.cbs.dk/prme2009 .

Call for papers

Measuring and Communicating CSR and Sustainability:
A Strategy Perspective

The Euram 2010 Conference will have a dedicated track to explore the role of performance measurement and communication systems in supporting the implementation of the firm’s CSR and sustainability strategy and in developing relationships with the stakeholders based on trust and legitimacy.

If you are interested in submitting a paper to this track, please download the full call.

Call for chapter proposals

Call for chapter proposals: Globalization and Ethics (Information Age Publishing, 2010)

 Editors: Charles Wankel, St John’s University, New York Shaun Malleck, University of California, Irvine

Call for chapter proposals. Submission due November 11, 2009

Chapter proposals are solicited on all topics and issues related to globalization and ethics in this multidisciplinary volume. Examples of topics and issues include: Global ethics, ethical critiques of globalization, digitalization and global information issues, the formation of global ethical norms, global environmental ethics, poverty and hunger alleviation, ethical sustainability, local ethics in a global world, relational ethics in global commerce, the impact of globalization on social capital, the impact of globalization on women/minorities/and other underrepresented socio-economic groups, business strategy in a global frame’s ethical implications, the global reach of companies and educational institutions, the impacts of global companies on various developing nations, globalization and genetic engineering, the globalization of reproductive medicine, globalization and regulatory problems, 21st century cosmopolitanism, the global order, the world as a global village, the disappearance of boundaries, global morality, cultural and religious conflicts, culture and global networks, global values, the impact of globalization on wage distribution, world government, the impact of globalization on fairness, the role of consumers in developed countries, product development, and marketing, the global economy, the global marketplace, global awareness, globalization of industries, global supply chains, global tourism, the UN Global Compact, the connection of global scale and business transparency, global commercial relationships, the global code of conduct for business. Proposals of any length are welcome. However, longer ones are preferred to overly brief ones. Also, include brief biographies of all the authors of your chapter. These should include a listing of (1) current institutional affiliation and rank, (2) terminal degree and institution awarding it, and (3) a listing of related publications and presentations. Schedule: Chapter proposals due: November 11, 2009. Chapter drafts due: April 11, 2010. Editorial review of chapter drafts completed: May 11, 2010. Final revision of chapter due: July 11, 2010. Page proofs anticipated: October 25, 2010. Page proof corrections due: November 1, 2010. Anticipated publication date: December 2010. Send your chapter proposals and brief biographies to both Charles Wankel wankelc@stjohns.edu  and Shaun Malleck smalleck@uci.edu  .