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Hi All,

Here is an updated Call for Papers for the Responsible Leadership Conference in November in Pretoria, South Africa, with an extended deadline, expanded track options, panel conversations, and practitioner conversations.  

Best to all,
Sandra Waddock

Boston College

With this announcement the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership and the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative along with international conference partners – Griffith University Business School, Business School Lausanne, Tongji SEM and Babson College - would like to invite further submissions related to responsible leadership from a trans-disciplinary perspective involving social and natural science. 

CONFERENCE THEME

As the interconnectedness and complexity of the world continues to grow, there is increasing awareness of the limitations of knowledge gathered within strict disciplinary boundaries, just at the point where humanity is pushing beyond many planetary boundaries and limitations.  The result is an enhanced need for responsible leaders whose knowledge and wisdom transcends disciplinary, sector, and most current boundaries.   Management, leadership, and business knowledge by itself cannot ensure a sustainable and equitable future.  Scientific knowledge alone is not enough.  Governance and political science knowledge alone is not enough.  What is needed is an integration of knowledge about and insight into responsible leadership across disciplinary boundaries ranging from management and economics studies, the physical and biological sciences, law, government, and the humanities and social science.  Only by integrating across current disciplinary boundaries can we find hope for generating what has been termed Earth System Governance, a way for humanity to manage the complexities of the world to create a just, equitable, and sustainable world for all.  We are searching for a New Political Economy, as the High Level Report to the UN Secretary-General prior to Rio+20 called it. For this conference, we invite submissions relating to responsible leadership from and across any of these perspectives, particularly from the physical and biological sciences. 

For transformative change toward a sustainable and equitable world, which McIntosh has termed 'the necessary transition', responsible leadership must be developed both within disciplines, and across scientific and other types of disciplines altogether, including management, economic, humanities, natural, legal and political, and social sciences.  Responsible leadership is needed in all areas of science to bridge scientific understanding into business and governance systems that span the earth.  Similarly, responsible leadership is needed in business and global governance and political systems that take into consideration the new interdisciplinary imperatives being uncovered by basic and applied sciences.  Single discipline-based knowledge and leadership alone will be insufficient for humanity to 'the necessary transition' to a sustainable and equitable world.

The purpose of the Third International Conference on Responsible Leadership will be to create a forum where scholars of management and responsible leadership in business and government can come together with leading biological and physical scientists to generate shared perspectives and understanding across disciplinary boundaries.  Many scientists are themselves attempting to bridge scientific disciplines to create a dialogue about the crucial multi-disciplinary insights needed to tackle increasingly complex issues, such as genomics, disease, sustainability, energy, and food security, to mention just a few areas.  Each of these arenas is fraught with leadership responsibilities that are not bounded by the particular scientific disciplines but need to create bridges between what are now rather rigid boundaries with little conversation going on among them.  This conference aims to bring together academics interested in dialogue about the ethical, responsibility, leadership, and human implications of research within these complex and interconnected domains.

For this conference, we invite submissions relating to responsible leadership from and across any of these perspectives, particularly from the physical and biological sciences

CONFERENCE TRACKS

Under the umbrella of the theme outlined, we invite scholarly papers, as well as proposals for practitioner workshops and panel conversations within the following tracks:

·         Responsible leadership issues in bridging scientific, management, and political systems to create a just and sustainable world;

·         Leadership and disciplinary issues in integrating across and within scientific disciplines:  leadership and responsibility implications, ethical issues, and sustainability issues for the future in, e.g., energy, biodiversity, food security, agriculture, genomics, disease;

·         How business and other types of enterprises are bridging across scientific, management, and social science disciplines to create a sustainable future; and

·         Social-eco system management and governance, Earth System governance, global action networks (GANs), valuing ecosystem services.

GUIDELINES AND SCHEDULE FOR SUBMISSION:

31 March 2014:             Deadline for submission of paper abstracts and workshop proposals

16 May 2014:                Notification of acceptance of abstracts and workshop proposals

30 June 2014:               Deadline for full paper submission

29 August 2014:            Announcement of full paper acceptance and opening of registration

Scholarly paper requirements

·         Abstracts of scholarly papers (max. 500 words) can be submitted to the conference office (CRL2014@up.ac.za). They should be submitted electronically (by e-mail), in RTF/MSWord format as file attachments (not as part of the message).

·         All paper abstracts will go through a blind-review process. The conference manager will remove author identifying information and process the review of abstracts.

·         Successful abstract submissions will be notified and submission of full papers will then commence.

·         All full paper submissions will go through a double-blind peer review process. Therefore, all author-identifying information should be removed from the paper except for a cover page.

·         We advise all non-native english speakers to have their papers checked by a native speaker before submission.

·         Full papers should be no longer than 35 pages (double-spaced) including tables, graphs, references and endnotes.

·         The formatting of the paper has to follow the guidelines of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship.

Practitioner workshop requirements

·         Workshop proposals (max. 1000 words) can be submitted to the conference office (CRL2014@up.ac.za). They should be submitted electronically (by e-mail), in RTF/MSWord format as file attachments (not as part of the message).

·         Submissions are invited in the following formats (with acknowledgement to the Academy of Management's format):

o    Catalyst: 30 minute interactive demonstration or extended discussion of particular practices, challenges, or opportunities

o    Topical: 60 minute interactive session that includes some combination of presentation, discussion, participant reflection and application, simulation, or other form of interactivity.

o    In-depth: 90 minute interactive workshop offering in-depth exploration of a particular subject, course, or activity.

·         Workshops proposals will be considered by the conference committee using the following criteria:

o    Relevance to an identified audience of participants

o    Evidence of a dynamic and interactive session

o    Interest to multiple tracks or conference interest groups clearly linked to at least one of the conference tracks

o    Clarity of proposal narrative and session format

o    Provision of useful "take-aways" for participants

Panel discussion requirements

·         Space for panel discussions in plenary is limited. Please contact the conference office  if you have a proposal in this regard.

CONFERENCE CONTACTS:

Please check our website (http://www.up.ac.za/crl) for up-to-date information on deadlines and procedures.

Any further queries about the academic conference can be addressed to the Conference Office:

Contact:          Carto Abrams-Swarts

E-mail:            CRL2014@up.ac.za

Tel:                 +27 12 420 4271