The 4th Annual Next Generation ESG Workshop: One-on-one Scholarly Training for Select PhD students - Submissions are due February 15, 2012
Purpose
The Next Generation Workshop focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues is a three-day event that will gather together promising young doctoral researchers and world-leading experts in ESG-related research for the purpose of fostering these young researchers' talents. Junior researchers can often benefit from the opportunity to meet and establish contacts with international experts early in their careers. Therefore, the Next Generation ESG Workshop aims to establish a dialogue between present and future ESG researchers. This will involve scholars from different disciplines, given that ESG challenges are not confined to a narrow disciplinary lens.
Three internationally recognized experts will be invited to Bentley campus the week of May 20, 2012 – along with three doctoral students who will be selected competitively – in conjunction with the Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium sponsored by the State Street Foundation. The experts and students will engage in a series of presentations and discussions (including detailed one-on-one feedback between expert and student), with the goal of promoting research in the ESG area. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in the internationally recognized Bentley teaching business ethics workshop occurring the same week.
The 2012 Next Generation ESG Workshop will feature the following three academic guests:
Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment. Within this role, Andy also serves as Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise.
Professor Hoffman's research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. In particular, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues. He has written extensively about: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome.
He has published over ninety articles as well as nine books, which have been translated into five languages. Among his list of honors, he has been awarded the Aldo Leopold Fellowship (2011), the Aspen Environmental Fellowship (2011 and 2009), the Manos Page Prize (2009), the Faculty Pioneer Award (2003), the Rachel Carson Prize (2001) and the Klegerman Award (1995). His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1), Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design and the Amoco Corporation. Andy serves on advisory boards of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, TRIRIGA Software Solutions, Earth Portal, Center for Environmental Innovation, and Canopy Partnership, as well as the editorial board of Organization & Environment.
For more information on Andy: http://www.andrewhoffman.net./
Kathy Rehbein Kathy joined the management department faculty at Marquette University in 1988 after completing her doctorate in Economics at Washington University. Most of her research has focused on business/government interactions, looking at which companies are most likely to be involved in the political arena and the regulatory sector, which companies are seeking corporate political access and examining the impact of trade policy on the steel sector. This work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Business and Society, and the Southern Economic Journal.
More recently, Kathy has been examining corporate governance and shareholder activism, specifically looking at the corporate responses to shareholder activists and understanding which corporations get targeted. In addition to her research, Kathy has been involved in the governance of the Social Issues Division, Academy of Management (serving as preconference chair, program chair and the head of the division) and she just finished being involved in the governance of the International Association of Business and Society, serving as the program chair and President. In 2010, she received the Sumner Marcus Award for outstanding service from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management.
For more information on Kathy: http://business.marquette.edu/faculty/directory/kathleen-rehbein
Shawn Berman Shawn L. Berman is an associate professor of management and a Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow at the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Washington. Shawn has been at the Anderson School of Management for four years. Before coming to Anderson he served on the faculties at Boston University and Santa Clara University, where he was a fellow to the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Shawn has three main research interests: Stakeholder Theory, especially measurement issues; intra- and inter-organizational trust; and issues of corporate governance. Shawn has also recently become interested in how managerial discretion impacts firm-stakeholder relationships. His work has appeared in The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society as well as other outlets. Shawn's most recent publication, with Robert Phillips, Heather Elms, and Michael Johnson-Cramer on "Stakeholder Theory, Strategy, and Managerial Discretion" appears in the May, 2010 issue of Strategic Organization.
Shawn is on the editorial board of the Business & Society and currently serves as Division Chair for the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, having served as both program chair and professional development workshop chair.
For more information on Shawn: http://www.mgt.unm.edu/faculty/vita/sberman.pdf
Student Selection
The Next Generation ESG Workshop will invite doctoral students who are working in relevant areas to apply for participation via a call for papers. It is expected that candidates will come from institutions from all over the world and from different theoretical and methodological traditions. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, the three-day seminar will invite applications from students in disciplines including management, accountancy, political science, philosophy, economics, environmental studies, information systems and sociology, to name a few. Participants must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program, preferably in their 2nd or 3rd year, and their research must be ESG-related.
Students will be chosen on the basis of a 5000-7000 word paper submission, evaluated by a conference coordinating committee, prior to the workshop. The selection will be based on each paper's relevance to the conference focus, quality of research, practical relevance and clarity of research description. Please note also that the submission should be single-authored and a 'work in progress' but one that is well thought out and articulated. Selection will be competitive. Students selected will be awarded all expense stipends for travel and participation.
Please email submissions to:
Cynthia Clark Williams, PhD
Director, Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance
Bentley University
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
ccwilliams@bentley.edu
The Next Generation Workshop is made possible by the State Street Foundation and co-sponsored by the Harold S. Geneen Institute for Corporate Governance.
More information about the ESG Workshop can be found at http://legacy.bentley.edu/geneen/events.cfm