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Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Academy of Business in Society, 5-7 November 2009
Call for Contributions for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Academy of Business in Society:
Finding Solutions to Global Problems through Stakeholder Engagement, New Social Partnerships and Strategic Alliances for a Sustainable Enterprise Economy
Griffith Business School, Brisbane, Australia
Thursday 5 November to midday Saturday 7 November 2009
APABIS is pleased to launch the Call for Contributions for its 3rd Annual Conference at Griffith Business School, Brisbane 5-7 November 2009. Please download the Details and Submission Guidelines from the APABIS website www.apabis.org
This year’s conference focuses on how stakeholder engagement, new social partnerships and strategic alliances have developed over the last ten years or more and can help find solutions to global problems.
The twin challenges of an economic system in urgent need of reinvention and the climate change imperative are in reality the same challenge: that the economic growth of the last two hundred years has been bought at the expense of our own survival. We have been taking from the future to pay for the present by borrowing cash from each other and by pillaging the earth for resources. These two things must now stop. The twin challenges are an opportunity for business, government and civil society to build a new sustainable enterprise economy based on eco-efficiency, smart systems and sustainability.
What does the Asia-Pacific region have to say about itself, and what does it have to say to the world? This region has a specific voice and immense capacity as well as some of world’s largest companies – many of them state owned enterprises – some of them are suffering very badly in the current economic meltdown, but some of them are profiting from their expertise in low carbon and eco-efficient technology.
We invite submissions from business, government, civil society and academia, and from practitioners and researchers. Interdisciplinary approaches that tailor their research questions and analysis to the needs of identifiable user groups, whether in business, government or civil society are strongly encouraged. The best papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of Business Strategy and the Environment to be edited by Jem Bendell, Juliet Roper and Eva Collins.
Contributions (2-3 pages to a maximum of 500-1,000 words) are to be submitted to Chris Auld c.auld@griffith.edu.au by 19 June 2009 and authors will be notified of acceptance by 13 July 2009.
You can register to attend the Conference from 31 May 2009. Early Bird registrations close 30 September 2009.
Please visit http://www.apabis.org for further details.