CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS CSR Research Call for contributions – Seminar 2016: Taking corporate responsibility to the next level: Innovative business approaches

CSR Research Seminar 2016 – Taking Corporate Responsibility to the next level – 23-24 June 2016 | Brussels, Belgium

• You are a PhD candidate or an emerging scholar in the CSR field?
• You are conducting research on business & society, corporate responsibility, or a related topic?
• You want to thoroughly discuss one of your papers or your PhD project with leading scholars?
• You want to enhance your ability to write and review scholarly publications?
• You want to meet other researchers and develop your network?

You are invited to submit your contribution!

The objective of this two-day “CSR research seminar” is to bring together doctoral students, young researchers and more advanced scholars to present and discuss their research projects and receive feedback. We will explore commonalities as well as differences in each others’  research approaches in an inspiring academic setting. This two-day research seminar will be composed of plenary, thematic, and workshop sessions. Furthermore, there will be sessions on research methodology and publication strategy. All sessions will involve fellow PhD students, emerging scholars and more experienced researchers.
The seminar is co-organized this year by ICHEC Brussels Management School (Belgium), Louvain CSR Network of the Louvain School of  Management (UCL, Belgium), Audencia Nantes School of Management (France), and IESEG Center for Organizational Responsibility (ICOR) at IESEG School of Management (France).

RESEARCH THEMES

With this interdisciplinary seminar, we aim at bringing together scholars sharing a common interest for corporate responsibility and business & society and originating from various business-related research fields including strategy, organization studies, marketing, accounting, finance and sociology.

KEYNOTE SESSION
This year’s keynote speaker will be Prof. Frank Boons, from University of Manchester, for a plenary session on responsible business models. He will share the results of his research on this topic, and inspire us to question the capacity of these new models to overcome the limitations and dysfunctioning of existing tools and models.

APPLICATIONS AND DEADLINES
To present your work at the event, please submit a long abstract (3 to 5 pages, singlespaced, Times New Roman 12) or a full paper (maximum 25 pages, single-spaced, Times New Roman 12) on your research project related to business & society relationships, corporate responsibility, or a related topic. Applications must be submitted via email to no later than March 01, 2016.

Submissions will undergo a blind-review process. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 15, 2016. Please note that this CSR research seminar is designed for up to 60 participants to ensure high quality exchanges, and that there are possibilities to attend without presenting a paper. For any question, please contact us at .

LOCATION AND CONTACT
The seminar will take place at ICHEC Brussels Management School, in Brussels, Belgium (http://www.ichec.be/index.php?&kb_lang=
english/). Boulevard Brand Whitlock 2, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium

Participation is free of charge, but participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

For more information: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS-CSR Research Seminar June 2016-Brussels