EPSRC/ESRC Energy research clusters

Message from Lorraine… This is EPSRC’s email alert of calls for proposals issued in the last week.

Energy and Equity & Sustainable Energy and Energy Security

EPSRC and ESRC are seeking to support a number of interdisciplinary Research Clusters under two key research themes: ‘Energy & Equity’ and ‘Sustainable Energy & Energy Security’.

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/EESCall.htm

Extended call for EABIS Colloquium 2008

EABIS Colloquium - Contributions Deadline Extended          

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

At the request of many, the deadline for submission of Paper Proposals & Contributions has been extended to: MONDAY 9 JUNE. Full guidelines available at www.eabis2008.info.

Subject:
“Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability: Leadership and Organisational Change”

Focus:

• Internal dynamics of the firm
• Embedding CR and Sustainability in the purpose and strategy of the Firm
• Integration in organisational culture, structure, processes, systems, competencies and transformational leadership required

Related Themes with respect to integrating CR and sustainability:

• Management of Change
• Organisational Learning
• Human Resource Management
• Performance Management
• Leadership Development & Executive Education

Key Dates:

Submission of proposals for presentation (4-5 pages maximum)  9 June to helen.knight@cranfield.ac.uk

 

Invitation to hold presentation      30 June

Presentation at Colloquium          12 September

Invitation to submit full paper       30 October

Submission of full paper approx.     10 January 2009

Review and feedback approx.       10 March 2009

Closure of editorial process approx. 30 April 2009

WE INVITE PROPOSALS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ACADEMICS, PRACTITIONERS, CONSULTANTS, KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS
Note: Full papers are not required till early 2009.

Practitioners: if desired, it might be possible to team you up with academics for joint paper submission for publication in our special issue journals.

With kind regards,

The EABIS Team

Call for CSR papers - Asian Business & Management

Call for Papers: Special issue on “Globalization and CSR in Asia”

Submission deadline: September 2008 for publication: June 2009

 

Asian Business & Management is pleased to announce a special issue focused on a timely and critical assessment of globalization and CSR in Asia, with a view to developing a theoretical and empirical understanding of the issues described as CSR that are emerging in Asia.

 

Our fragmented knowledge of CSR in Asia needs to be reshaped into a coherent understanding so that we can understand each part better. Therefore, the purpose of this special issue is to bring together some of the brightest minds around the whole area of CSR to provide a comprehensive overview of the following topics:

 

1.      Theoretical, conceptual and perspective papers critically assessing the limits of extant knowledge (literature) on CSR, while exploring and expanding the scope and horizons of future development

2.      Critical papers exploring relationships between profit, community and environment

3.      Empirical research elucidating CSR issues and discussing their theoretical implications

 

More specific topics may include, although are not limited to:

 

1.      Global business and its relationship with stakeholders

2.      Global business and its negative environmental impacts

3.      Global management and local human and civil rights issues, including child and forced labour, prostitution, migration and working conditions, product sourcing and purchase arrangements

4.      Corruption in Asian business and management circles

5.      Global business and issues of regional sustainable development

6.      Global business and its relation to perceived social risks in Asia

 

All papers should conform to the Asian Business & Management journal format visit www.palgrave-journals.com/abm/author_instructions.html for details. Please submit manuscripts of up to 8,000 words via e-mail in MS word format to:

 

Professor Philippe Debroux (debroux@soka.ac.jp)

Dr Colin Higgins (Colin.Higgins@vu.edu.au)

Ethical Corporation newsletter

Just a reminder that ‘Ethical Corporation’ do a fortnightly newsletter of all things related to CSR/Ethics/sustainability… the latest edition is HERE. It’s well worth signing up to the newsletter so that it comes directly via email (HERE)

CSR in management research

A useful article that summarises CSR literature in management research:

Lockett, A.; Moon, J. and Visser, W. (2006). Corporate Social Responsibility in Management Research: Focus, Nature, Salience and Sources of Influence, Journal of Management Studies, 43 (1), pp. 115–136 doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00585.x

Calls for CSR-related articles

Here are a few calls for CSR-related papers/articles that were first summarised in the recent BAM CSR newsletter edited by Alan Murray (if you’re not a member of the SIG then it really is worthwhile, click HERE for more info)

 

Call for papers for a special issue of Business Strategy and the Environment. Special issue topic: Trade-Offs in Corporate Sustainability. Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2008. For more information please visit www.seabus-research.net/specialissue/bse/index.html.

 

Call for contributions for a book: “Innovative Corporate Social Responsibility: From risk management to value creation“. How to shift from risk management to value creation? is the key theme of this book. The deadline for abstract submissions is May 31, 2008. For further information, to discuss ideas for contributions and to submit abstracts/manuscripts, please contact: Céline Louche, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Reep 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium, Email: celine.louche@vlerick.be, Tel.: +32 9 210 9798

 

Call for Manuscripts – Business Ethics Quarterly, Accountability in a Global Economy: The Emergence of International Accountability Standards to Advance Corporate Social Responsibility. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically by December 1, 2008 using BEQ’s submission website (http://editorialexpress.com/beq ). Manuscripts must conform to BEQ’s normal submission requirements (see the information for contributors on the BEQ website: www.businessethicsquarterly.org ). Be sure to indicated “special issue – accountability” in the “comments” section of the online submission form. Manuscripts should not exceed 12000 words and will be blind reviewed following the journal’s standard process. For further information contact guest editor Dirk Ulrich Gilbert (dirk.gilbert@phil.uni-erlangen.de ).

 

Special issue call for papers from Social Responsibility Journal on Globalization, Sustainable Development and Socially Responsible Initiatives in Developing Countries. Deadline for submission of full papers is 15th December 2008, the special issue will be published in late 2009. Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically (preferably in Word format) to Ananda at adg_iipm@vsnl.net . Their length should not exceed 9000 words (including all references, tables, figures, author bios, abstracts and keywords), although in some cases, involving mainly the reporting of qualitative data, longer manuscripts may be accepted. The front page should contain the title of the work, list authors’ names, affiliations and contacts. All papers will be subject to the normal refereeing process. Authors wishing to discuss their paper prior to submission may contact the guest editor.

CSR in MBA programmes

An interesting article on CSR in MBA programmes can be found HERE.

Sustainability jobs :-)

Got this through on the ol’ email…

 

There are three posts (2 Senior Lecturers/Lecturers on “environmental development” and “environmental policy” and 1 chair in “Environmental Social Sciences”) available in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK. The job descriptions are available online at:

 

http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ShowVacancies.aspx?Category=Academic (Job Refs:316103 and Job Ref: 316104)

http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ShowVacancies.aspx?Category=Professorial (Job Ref: 336004).

 

The deadlines are May 19th and May 30th, respectively. If interested, please contact Prof. Andy Gouldson for any queries.

 

interesting article from the FT

I thought readers of the blog might be interested in this article which provides an unusual twist on the food packaging debate:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/823eebc6-1007-11dd-8871-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

CSR Textbooks

I’ve added a new page to the blog that contains some CSR textbooks… I’ve only listed those that have been published recently but if you have read anything inspiring in the CSR/Sustainability/Ethics field that is not on there then either add it directly if you’re signed up to the blog or leave us a comment.