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The Seventh Annual ICCSR Symposium Call for Papers
Conference Information:
The ICCSR (International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility) 7th Annual Symposium will be held on Tuesday 27 April, 2010 at the University of Nottingham, UK. The theme of the symposium is ‘Corporate Social Innovation and Sustainable Community Development’. The symposium addresses the issue of poverty, one of the biggest development challenges today.
The rise of global poverty has reinvigorated the question as to whether and how should businesses embrace wider roles and responsibilities, and respond to poverty and development challenges afflicting communities. What are the governance implications of businesses taking such responsibilities? As community development and poverty reduction move from the periphery to the heart of strategic business thinking, there is a need to reconceptualise the role of business in poverty reduction in the local communities that goes beyond philanthropy and towards sustainable community development.
The symposium will examine why and how businesses facilitate, support and promote i) interventions and ii) institutional mechanisms and structures that advance sustainable livelihoods in the communities particularly those in developing countries.
For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ICCSR/events.php?e=48
Call for Papers Information:
Papers with a conceptual, theoretical or empirical focus that present new research insights, ideas on business models, strategies and stakeholder engagement processes are invited that a) respond to factors contributing to poverty; and b) advance sustainable community development in developing countries.
Multidisciplinary papers are also invited which contribute knowledge on how companies are transforming value chain activities to benefit local communities. The papers can cover, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Corporations and community (and, or social) enterprise development
- Corporations and community asset-building
- Business approaches towards community empowerment and capacity building
- Social partnerships and stakeholder engagement
Authors interested in submitting a paper for presentation at the symposium should submit an abstract of 1,000 words to judy.muthuri@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday, 11th December 2009.
A more extensive outline is now available to download from www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/iccsr