11 September, EABIS Annual Colloquium, Cranfield, UK

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11 September, EABIS Annual Colloquium,
Cranfield, UK
2008 KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING FORUM
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Basic Information

• International Research Network on Social and
  Environmental Aspects in Business and Management
  (SEABUS)
• Institute for Futures Studies and Technology
  Assessment (IZT), Berlin, D
• European Academy of Business in Society
• School of Management of Royal Holloway,
  University of London, UK
• Amsterdam Business School, University of
  Amsterdam, NL
• Center for Business and the Environment at Yale,
  Yale University, USA
• Queen's University Management School, Queens
  University Belfast, UK
• Corporate Environmental Governance Programme,
  University of HK
• Faculty of Business, University of Victoria,
  Canada
• Umeå School of Business, University of Umeå,
  Sweden

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Project Overview

• The main purposes of SEABUS are
• to foster a conceptual and methodological
  exchange among an international network of
  academic researchers.
• to further development and dissemination of
  research into social and environmental issues in
  corporate management.
• The SEABUS network is being funded by the German
  Federal Ministry of Education and Research under
  grant number 07 IFS 11.
• Project Website http//www.seabus-research.net/

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Business/Academic Collaboration

• Multi-stakeholder Transfer Workshop organised by
  EABIS in October 2009
• focus on environmental and social trade-offs
  beyond win-win situations
• case-study format of best practice firms
• Key insights will also be compiled into an EABIS
  Executive Briefing

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Project Output

• International knowledge development around
• Three Research Workshops
• Publication of two special issues of an academic
  journal
• Multi-stakeholder Transfer Workshop organized by
  EABIS
• Research Summer School
• Two special streams at conferences
• Professional Development Workshops at the Academy
  of Management
• Exchange of researchers and visiting researchers
• Other publications

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Mainstreaming

• Two key contribution to mainstreaming CSR
• greater insight into how companies manage
  trade-offs around social and environmental
  issues. This should advance our knowledge as to
  how companies proceed with their CSR initiatives
  once the low-hanging fruit are harvested.
• contribution to the development of new management
  approaches, particularly in the light of rapid
  and drastic changes in the natural and social
  context of corporate decision-making.
• project aims to contribute to the search for a
  new paradigm for corporate management.