Next Generation Workshop focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance

All expenses paid for selected grad students!

The Next Generation ESG Workshop: One-on-one Scholarly Training for Select PhD students – Submissions are due February 28, 2010

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 and practice 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 ones that can be confined to a narrow disciplinary lens.

Three internationally recognized experts will be invited to the Bentley campus in May 2010 – along with four or five doctoral students who will be selected competitively – in conjunction with the State Street 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 practically relevant research in the ESG area. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in the internationally recognized Bentley teaching-ethics workshop occurring the same week.

The 2010 Next Generation ESG Workshop features three academic guests:

Jorge Rivera
Jorge Rivera is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at The George Washington University’s School of Business. His research focuses on the relationship between public policy and business strategies. He has published more than 20 manuscripts and his work received Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management’s Organizations and Natural Environment Division in 2001 and the Policy Sciences Society in 2003. His articles have also been mentioned in more than 30 news stories by national and local newspapers including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post, the Seattle Post, and the Boston Globe. Additionally, in 2009 one of his publications, co-authored with Peter deLeon, examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry was ranked as the most cited manuscript published in the Policy Studies Journal between 2004 and 2009. He is also the author of two books: “Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective” (co-edited with Peter deLeon) by Lexington Press and “Business and Public Policy” by Cambridge University Press (forthcoming in July 2010). In 2009, Professor Rivera was appointed as an Associate Editor of the journals: Policy Sciences and Business & Society. (http://home.gwu.edu/~jrivera/)
Duane Windsor

Duane Windsor is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. His research topics focus on corporate social responsibility and stakeholder theory. He teaches courses in leadership and business ethics, among others. Professor Windsor is the current editor of Business & Society, published by Sage and sponsored by the International Association for Business and Society (IABS). His articles have appeared in such journals as Business & Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Cornell International Law Journal, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Public Affairs, Long Range Planning, and Public Administration Review. He has served as President of IABS and Chair of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the Academy of Management.
(http://business.rice.edu/facultyprofiles.aspx?faculty=Duane%20Windsor)

Robert Hoskisson

Robert E. Hoskisson is the George R. Brown Chair of Strategic Management at the Jones School of Business at Rice University. His research topics focus on corporate strategy and governance and he teaches courses in corporate and international strategic management, among others. Professor Hoskisson has served on several editorial boards for such publications as the Strategic Management Journal (current Associate Editor), Academy of Management Journal (Consulting Editor), Journal of International Business Studies (Consulting Editor), Journal of Management (Associate editor) and Organization Science. His research has appeared in over 90 publications including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of World Business, California Management Review and Long Range Planning. He has co-authored over 20 books including Strategic Management: Globalization and Competitiveness (9th Edition forthcoming), Competing for Advantage and Understanding Business Strategy. He has also co-authored Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management and is a charter member of the Academy Journal’s Hall of Fame. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management and the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society.
(http://business.rice.edu/facultyprofiles.aspx?faculty=Robert%20E.%20Hoskisson)

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 related to the topic of ESG.

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. Selection will be competitive with four or five students chosen. Students selected will have all expenses for travel and participation. Promising papers will be considered for submission to either Business & Society Review or Business & Society depending on the nature of the work.

Please send or 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