Organized in partnership with the Society for Business Ethics (SBE) and the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE)
Hosted by Bordeaux Ecole de Management, France
October 26-27th, 2006
“Is There a Responsibility of Business Schools
to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility”
ADERSE was created in 2002 with the mission of developing education and research in the field of CSR and Business Ethics in France. The first ADERSE Conference was held in 2003 in Paris, the second in 2004 in Toulouse, and the third Conference, co-sponsored by ISEOR and the SIM Division of the Academy of Management, took place in Lyon in October 2005.
ADERSE is pleased to invite submissions to its 4th Conference, which will concentrate on the main theme indicated above, in three languages: English, French and Spanish. The purpose of this Conference is to facilitate a constructive dialogue between professors and researchers working worldwide on business education and CSR-related issues.
Submissions can range over the following topics:
Educational content of CSR programs
Curriculum examples, syllabi, readings, dialogue starters and workshops related to CSR teaching.
Pedagogical approaches utilized in CSR education: case studies, role-playing, personal implication, students’ projects, etc.
Demonstrations and workshops on CSR teaching software and methods.
How to assess students’ appropriation of the responsibility dimension
International comparisons of CSR education
Teaching business ethics, CSR, and sustainable development in various countries: comparative perspectives.
Development of the teaching of business ethics in the U.S. and its evolution towards CSR and corporate citizenship.
Differences in CSR teaching methods depending on course design.
Mainstreaming CSR in business curricula
Should CSR courses be made compulsory and why?
Stand-alone courses vs. integration, or both.
How to permeate the ethical concern and CSR-related issues through traditional management disciplines (strategy, organizational behavior, finance, marketing, accounting and control, operations management…)
Institutional aspects
Institutionalization of CSR (degrees, chairs, certifications, specialized departments, etc.)
Accreditation criteria for courses on ethics and the role of accreditation bodies.
CSR as a means of differentiation and strategic positioning: some pioneering business schools have already chosen to differentiate themselves along this line. To what extent can they lead the others to follow this orientation?
What are the responsibilities of business schools in the world today?
How can they be defined in relation to the process of globalization and its consequences?
Changing the mindsets in business schools: what are the best levers and strategies?
Should deans, professors and students be selected according to their ethical sensitivity?
How to find a balance between the development of students’ managerial knowledge and their societal and environmental awareness?
Cross-cultural dialogue and the search for a global ethics
The problematic elaboration of a set of shared ethical values on the global marketplace.
Questioning and rethinking the purpose of corporations worldwide is a fundamental issue for management education. How should this theme be handled?
Could business schools foster a dialogue on that issue with their foreign counterparts?
Submission formats and deadlines:
Proposal submission deadline (1 page abstract): April 1st, 2006.
Response on the proposals by the Scientific Committee before April 30th, 2006.
Paper submission deadline: June 30th, 2006. Papers may be submitted electronically in any of the conference languages (English, French or Spanish) in Word and should not exceed 15 pages, 30,000 characters (including spaces). References should be formatted in the style required by the Chicago Manual of Style (for information please refer to the following link: www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/tools.html).
Evaluation of the papers and response to participants by the Scientific Committee before August 31st, 2006.
All submissions should be sent to: corinne.affagard@bordeaux-bs.edu
Conference Steering Committee:
Nicole Barthe, University of Nice, President of ADERSE;
Christophe Estay, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Academic Director;
Anne Gombault, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Laboratoire Humanisme et Gestion;
Laura Hartman, DePaul University (Chicago), Co-Chair of the Committee on International Collaboration for the Society for Business Ethics;
François Lépineux, INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Past-President of ADERSE;
Samuel Mercier, University of Bourgogne;
Jean-Jacques Rosé, EHESS-SHADYC (Marseille), Vice-President of ADERSE;
Deon Rossouw, University of Pretoria, President of ISBEE;
Henri Savall, University of Lyon III, Director of ISEOR;
Zahir Yanat, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Vice-President of ADERSE and Chair of the Conference.
For more information, please refer to the following websites:
www.aderse.org
www.societyforbusinessethics.org
www.isbee.org
www.bordeaux-bs.edu
