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Theme & Important dates
In a context characterised by unceasing trends of globalisation, acceleration of technological change, struggling financial markets, social transformations and increasing prominence of knowledge and innovation, firms are compelled to achieve and sustain very high levels of competitiveness.
However, the recent financial crisis and scandals have put into question the sustainability of economic systems and business models. The increasing attention of society and institutions both to business and professional ethics and to the sustainability of the economic system constitutes an important reason for the consideration of limits to the radical search for competitiveness and profits in the short and medium term.This paradox entails important challenges to scholars, practitioners, politicians and regulators. Facing effectively such an intricate context calls for strategic leaders capable of balancing the answer to competitive and market pressures with a global and long term perspective that goes beyond the survival and profits for their own organisations. As scholars we cannot ignore our key role for the identification of the required competencies for future strategic leaders and the development of the appropriate attitudes and abilities among our students. Our research must focus on questions with real implications in the life and wealth of our societies. In the same line, through rigorous and impactful research, we must stimulate practitioners adopting a sustainable perspective of competitiveness.
New winds talk of strategic leadership, of managers, businessmen, investors, directors, consultants, union members and entrepreneurs who assume their responsibilities in creating and maintaining a sustainable and competitive socio-economic system. The recent history is full of examples of good and bad practices of strategic leadership. The challenge is now to multiply the best practices through social and institutional recognition while lessening the bad ones. Politicians, regulators or other governmental actors are called to warrant the existence of the appropriate conditions for such strategic leadership to emerge and to provide the proper recognition to it.
The pleasant waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea brought to Valencia a wide range of cultures and influences, which shaped this city into an open minded place and a fascinating location to live and visit. We will be honoured to welcome you in this excellent setting for a lively and fruitful discussion. EURAM 2014 is aimed to be a forum for dialogue about how management research and education, by itself and in combination with other disciplines, can contribute to the enhancement of new waves and winds of strategic leadership that will stimulate a balanced and sustainable view of competitiveness in our societies.
Important dates
Submission of Topics/Symposia/DWG Proposals: 9 July 2013
Announcement of the call for papers: 20 September 2013
Deadline for paper submission: 16 January 2014 (2 pm Belgian time)
Notification of acceptance as of 28 March 2014
Early bird/authors registration 25 April 2014
Doctoral Colloquium (2-3 June 2014)
Deadline for submission to PhD Colloquium: 28 January 2014 (2 pm Belgian time)
Notification of acceptance as of 28 March 2014
Authors registration 25 April 2014
Mission
The Business & Society SIG’s objective is to bring together engaged
scholars from various disciplines in order to develop a European-based
B&S stable and supportive community: management but also law,
sociology, economics, political science, social psychology, history,
philosophy engineering, etc., who share a common interest in the vast
and contested B&S field. The B&S SIG aims to promote
collaboration (whether research or pedagogy oriented) among its members
through EURAM Conferences, networking, preparation of common
publications and answers to EU or national funding programs. In
Valencia, we shall propose a general and some more specialized tracks as
well as meetings and social events allowing us to work and play
together.SIG chair: Julienne Brabet (Université Paris Est-Créteil) brabetj@hotmail.com
Programme chair: Rémi Jardat (ISTEC) r.jardat@istec.fr
Description of the topics sponsored by the SIG
01_00 Business & Society - General Track
Track chairs:Corinne Vercher (Université Paris 13) corinne.vercher@wanadoo.fr
Julienne Brabet (Université Paris Est/IRG) brabetj@hotmail.com
The B&S General track invites contributions from all areas related to Business & Society that are not explicitly covered by other tracks within the SIG. It welcomes papers tackling the essential social issues in this vast contested field and very different point of views:
- Theoretical, methodological and/or empirical works,
- Managerial (strategy, finance, marketing, HRM, control, etc.), environmental or more social/political orientations,
- Micro, meso (for instance, sector/global value chain or region) or macro lenses,
- Diachronic (historical) and/or synchronic studies,
- Classical, constructionist/institutionalist or critical analyses,
- Research or pedagogy orientation.
01_01 Accounting and control for sustainability
This stream aims to attract papers which critically review and advance theory and practice in the study of accounting and control for sustainability, highlighting the potential richness of this strand of research for accounting, management and sustainability studies. We welcome papers on management accounting and control for sustainability (e.g. the integration of sustainability into performance measurement systems, their uses for sustainability strategy) and sustainability disclosure (e.g. new developments in sustainability/ integrated reporting).Selected papers will be invited for publication in a volume of the Emerald book series “Studies in Managerial and Financial Analysis” (Series Editor: Prof. M. J. Epstein).
Keywords: Accounting and control for sustainability; Sustainability performance measurement and management systems; Management control for corporate sustainability; Sustainability balanced scorecard; CSR disclosure, sustainability reporting, integrated reporting; The role of accounting, finance and control departments in sustainability
Topic proponents: Lucrezia Songini. Eastern Piedmont University. lucrezia.songini@eco.unipmn.it
Anna Pistoni. Insubria University
Christian Herzig. Nottingham Trent University
Stefan Schaltegger. Leuphana Universität
Igor Alvarez Etxeberria. University of Basque Country, Spain
01_02 Institutions and change
As institutions are reshaped by crisis, chaos and the age of austerity, institutional theory needs disrupting! Paradoxically enough, institutions which were defined by scholars through their persistence, seem to be dominated by multi-factorial causes of change. The track explores this apparent paradox and the two sides of organisations understood as persisting institutions and changing social systems.We seek theoretical and empirical contributions that focus on innovation and disruptions in the spheres of institutional regulation and general organisational and management taken-for-grantedness. We look for papers that contribute to the advance of institutional theory by coupling persistence and change.
Keywords: Events; Institutions; Culture; Ethics; Change
Proponents: Xavier Deroy. Neoma Business School (Reims Management School). xavierderoy@gmail.com
Jean_François Chanlat. Universite Dauphine
Stewart Clegg. UTS
Yvon Pesqueux. CNAM
01_03 Leadership for organisational change and resistance
The purpose of this topic is to explore approaches to leadership that can give shape to progressive social movements and change. Resistance, if not thoughtfully conducted, often does not generate progressive social outcomes. This topic will also allow for a reading of resistance as an organised activity. This is also a call for bringing politics back into management literature. By delving into the politics of leadership, social change and resistance, we seek to challenge the assumption of neutrality of these concepts, and propose to investigate them through simple yet critical questions: what, how, where, when, why and for whom?Keywords: Leadership; Change; Resistance
Proponents: Joanna Vassilopolou. University of Sussex. J.Vassilopoulou@sussex.ac.uk
Mustafa Ozbligin. Brunel Business School, Brunel University
01_04 Finance, economy & society: Towards sustainable re-embedding
The financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath is not a cyclical but a structural crisis: the model itself is in crisis. Finance has become disconnected from the real economy. Consequently, financial risks can spill over from the financial sphere and generate societal risk. Our modern society is embedded in a global economy, which itself has become embedded in global finance. Finance need to be re-embedded in order to serve an increasingly interconnected global economy, to our citizens and the planet. How can this be achieved? The global banking system must be brought to act transparently and ethically by providing responsible financing for economically viable and socially sustainable projects.Keywords: Finance; Re-embedding; Sustainability
Proponents: Catherine Karyotis. Neoma Business School (Reims Management School). catherine.karyotis@reims-ms.fr
Peter Rajsingh New York University
Sharam Alijani Neoma Business School (Reims Management School)
01_05 Crowdfunding: a path to social sustainability?
Crowdfunding as an « entrepreneurial phenomenon » denotes a general trend to substitute the crowd for traditional sources of finance (banks, financial markets, governments…. Descriptive inquiries are multiplying, more or less justified recommendations are accumulating, but crowdfunding remains a fuzzy object for research. Hence, the aim of this track is to gather some stabilized research outcomes and reflexivity on the managerial and social impact of crowdfunding. Contributions could address the following questions:- Is it possible to set up (or to pinpoint) one or several models for crowdfunding?
- What are the possible uses and impacts of crowdfunding?
Keywords: crowdfunding; crowdsourcing; sustainability; Social Entrepreneurship; Business Models
Proponents: Jérôme Méric. IAE de Poitiers CEREGE. jmeric@iae.univ-poitiers.fr
Karima Bouaiss. IAE de Poitiers CEREGE
Denise Rousseau. Carnegie Mellon University
Leire Sans Jose. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Isabelle Maque. IAE de Poitiers CEREGE
Adnane Maalaoui. ESG Management School
01_06 Responsible management in global value chains
Global Vvalue Chains (GVCs) have emerged as complex arenas in which the economic rationale to increase lead firms' flexibility, efficiency and financial returns, co-exists with rising social and environmental concerns at the other end of the chain, addressed in various ways by a plurality of actors such as firms, NGOs, unions, and governments.Our objective is to elicit new research casting light on the ambiguity and complexity of the ways in which economic, social and environmental concerns are being (or not) integrated in the managerial practices of GVCs, and seeking to assess the potential for transformative action towards greater integration of these three dimensions in the governance of these chains.
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Ethical sourcing; Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives; NGO campaigns and strategies
Proponents: Florence Palpacuer. Université de Montpellier. palpacuer@wanadoo.fr
Pamela Robinson. University of Birmingham
Alistair Smith. World Banana Forum
Corinne Vercher. Université Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité
01_07 Psychoanalysis, work, organisations and society
This topic intends to explore the contributions of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of work, management and organisations, and to seek ways of developing psychoanalysis that allows us to make connections between these objects of enquiry and their impact on wider society. We encourage papers that specifically make links between the contribution of psychoanalytical insights to other traditions of thinking: in philosophy, politics, and management studies. We wish to promote a broad psychoanalytical orientation, included but not limited to any affiliation whether Freudian, Lacanian, Kleinian or Winnicottian. We do not intend to support dogmatic or doctrinal disputes but instead seek dialogue and mutual advance. A Journal Specila Issue should be following on from this topic.Proponents: Carine Chemin-Bouzir. NEOMA Business School / GREGOR. carine.chemin-bouzir@reims-ms.fr
Gilles Arnaud. ESCP Europe
Alessia Contu. Warwick Business School, the University of Warwick
Damian O'Doherty. Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester
Howard Schwartz. Oakland University
Bénédicte Vidaillet. Université de Lille 1 - LEM
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