SIG OFFICERS (2019-2021):
Edoardo Mollona (University of Bologna), SIG CHAIR (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Francesco Gangi (Università Degli Studi Della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), SIG PAST CHAIR (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Lucia Michela Daniele (Università Degli Studi Della Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli), GT CO-CHAIR, PROGRAMME CHAIR (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Davide Bizjak (University of Naples Federico II), GENERAL TRACK CHAIR (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Marika Carboni (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), COMMUNICATION OFFICER (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Luigi Corvo (Università degli Studi Roma Tor Vergata), PROGRAMME CHAIR (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
GT01_00 Busines for Society General Track
The Business for Society General Track addresses how organizations interact with their social, political and natural environment. Consistently with the interdisciplinary nature of this field, the general track aims at cross-fertilisations with colleagues from economics, political sciences, sociology, humanities, who investigate the conditions under which organizations may contribute to sustainable development. Coherently with EURAM 2020 theme: “The business of now: the future starts here”, the track welcomes work that explores how demographic, political and technological trends challenge management scholars. The general track particularly welcomes contributions not explicitly covered by other B4S tracks.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 13: Climate action
Davide Bizjak , University of Naples Federico II, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
BUSINESS FOR SOCIETY SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST01_01/ST02_01 - Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law, Governance & Purpose (co-sponsored by Business for Society SIG-01 and Corporate Governance SIG-02)
This track aims at developing new perspectives between law & management studies in order to facilitate the rethinking of the legal constitution and governance of corporations. There is a growing awareness of the necessity to revise the principles of corporate governance, particularly in relation to innovations that aim to strengthen progress toward responsible and sustainable management practices. This track seeks to identify such innovations and support their implementation by examining current management and legal theories of the corporation, alternative and emergent forms of corporations, and new avenues in law & management to enable governance designs fostering responsible business and innovation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Kevin Levillain , MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ST01_02 Measuring, managing and communicating on performance for sustainability: new trends and innovative tools
Measuring, managing and communicating performance for sustainability play a central role in the implementation of the sustainability strategy, and developing relationships with stakeholders. It comprises practices and mechanisms to measure, represent, report and communicate firm’s performance, embracing environmental, social and economic aspects. We aim to attract papers which critically review and advance theory, methodology and practice on: sustainability and environmental reporting, social balance sheet, Integrated reporting, non financial disclosure, management control and performance measurement systems for sustainability, quality and assurance of sustainability disclosure and IR, the effects on the organization and its stakeholders, the role of CFO and the controller.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Lucrezia Songini , University of Eastern Piedmont, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ST01_03 - Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability
The dysfunctioning of the global financial system which culminated in the 2008 global economic meltdown calls for an in-depth analysis of financial, banking, investment, monetary and fiscal mechanisms. The growing pace of financialization coupled with insufficient regulation and oversight have been at the origin of market and institutional failures. The track invites theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions that investigate the existing business and management practices and propose alternative innovative financial and investment models to accelerate economic and social transformation. A particular emphasis is placed on the role of institutional investors, asset managers and the banking industry to enhance financial sustainability.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Sharam Alijani , NEOMA Business School, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
BUSINESS FOR SOCIETY SIG TRACKS
T01_04 - Arts for Business and Society
We welcome contributions that put arts at the core of ‘business for society’ research, looking “Now “ at the past to pursue the future. Arts and management have been studied as separated concepts either looking at how applying Business to the artistic field or finding how the artists’ activities could be managed. We look at art as a source of knowledge, by which management should learn. Accordingly, we refer to the etymological meaning of art, which derives from the latin word Ar-tem (the practice of giving value to the human action) and formerly from the Aryan root Ar (moving onwards).
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Davide Bizjak , University of Naples Federico II, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_05 - Environmental sustainability and Industry 4.0
The Industry 4.0. paradigm, that refers to the digital dimension of future industrial structures (Schroeder, 2016), does not only affect the manufacturing activities of the companies but implies a whole change in the companies’ way of facing the market and their competitors. Existing studies tend to be largely focused on the positive side of this fascinating development, neglecting that some technologies and innovations may also impose unpredictable costs on environment and society.
Management scholars are invited to reflect and enhance the understanding on both positive and negative environmental effects of Industry 4.0.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Ilaria Tutore , University of Naples Parthenope , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_06 - Environmental, Social, Governance: A New Paradigm for Businesses
Since concept of CSR went through a progressive rationalization (Lee, 2008), we think that it is time explain how and why ESG related changes in society issues take place. This is the role we expect ESG paradigm will play. But there are some questions that the researchers will need to wrestle with going forward. For example, how firms increase the long-run viability and the value, focusing on ESG factors? Are we able to look beyond ESG? How will firms be judged if not following ESG factors? We encourage submissions of both theoretical and empirical papers that explore ESG paradigm.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 13: Climate action
Nicola Cucari , University of Salerno, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_07 - Market for Society
This topic aims to analyze practices within different fields including market trends, social responsibility strategies, consumer behavior, focusing on new forms of cooperation/cooperation management amongst consumers, retailers and suppliers. This year, we will focus on firms’ ethical practices, ethical consumption, actors’ ethical behavior. This track contributes to the development of the society by taking a critical perspective on current consumerist approaches and seeking to develop a more manageable cooperative sustainable societal understanding. In this context, organizations and brands have a major role by implementing ethical practices and engaging consumers to the co-creation process.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Laure Lavorata , University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_08 - Personal development in business education: forming the business leader of the future, today
How can business education empower the current generation of business leaders to tackle future challenges? This track addresses this question by identifying how business education can foster personal and moral development alongside intellectual openness, ultimately creating future leaders who (1) have an open societally inclusive view and (2) are capable of identifying concrete solutions to pressing social and ecological challenges. We invite contributions that advance the work of authors like Kaiser and Kaplan (2006), Petriglieri et al (2011) and Waddock and Lozano (2013) who encourage reflective practices, socially integrative mindsets and corporate responsibilities, reintroducing relevance and impact to management education.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Dieter Vanwalleghem , Rennes School of Business, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_09 - Philosophy for business ethics
The topic aims to collect any kind of study that successfully applies and adopt philosophical paradigms to explain, interpret, and impact ethical behaviours in management and business. We are looking for novel or established approaches to create synergies between philosophical studies and managerial disciplines. Both in terms of theoretical paradigms and methods of analysis employed, we are open to a broad range of elements: Consequential, Non-consequential and Virtue Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Corporate misconduct and corporate political activity, Ancient Philosophies, Continental Philosophy, Business and Human Rights, Philosophies of Diversity, Organizational Aesthetics, non-Western tradition, Artificial Intelligence and business ethics, etc.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 13: Climate action, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Guglielmo Faldetta , Kore University of Enna, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_10 - Service innovation for society: designing a new role for organizations
Service innovation impacts all parties included in the process. The participatory and co-creative nature of developing service business, service innovation, and services calls for new competences and skills both at the organizational and individual level. Foremost it is pivotal to understand the impacts of the service logics and application of service design on organizations. The impact of service design in organisations; management, competences and skills. This session focuses on the determinants, forms and impacts of using the service design method for conventional and new forms of business organizations, public sector organizations, non-profit organizations and others.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Elisabetta Marafioti , University of Milan Bicocca, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_11/T03_14/ T04_06 - Immigrant Entrepreneurship
In our era of unprecedented worldwide migration, immigrant entrepreneurship changes its face. New contexts and types of migrants cause dynamics in host (and home) countries and challenge the state of the art in research. Issues like the impact on host societies, ecosystems, and the dynamics between migrant generations are in infant stages. As a phenomenon, migrant entrepreneurship is an upcoming issue for researchers and policy-makers for a number of reasons: (civil) wars, intercultural conflicts, over-crowding and poverty. As such, it addresses sustainable development challenges (e.g. no poverty, decent work and economic growth, and reducing inequalities).
We encourage new perspectives and methods as well as novel research approaches to this field by addressing the individual, group and family dimension.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities
Beata Glinka , University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T01_12 / T08_04 - Sport and Sustainability (co-sponsored by Business for Society SIG-01 and Managing Sport SIG-08)
The relation between sport and sustainability is a topic that has raised in the recent years a lot of interest in academics as well as practitioners. Several sport organisations are committed to the management of sustainability issues and many sport events have been arranged adopting sustainability practices. However, in the academic literature, very few studies have investigated the relation between sustainability and sport.
Deepening the relationships between sport and sustainability under the social, economic or environmental point of view is thus the main aim of this track proposal.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Tiberio Daddi, Institute of Management, S.Anna School of Advanced Studies, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
