04. December 2014, ESCP Europe Paris

 A new seminar series on "Business and Society" will kick-off at ESCP Europe on Dec 4th

We welcome François Maon to be the first lecturer of this series on the Paris Campus. François Maon is Associate Professor of Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility at the IESEG School of Management in Lille and is primarily specialized in research on CSR, Organizational Culture and Change Management. During the seminar he will present his work "Conceptualizing organizational change toward corporate responsibility: A quad-motor theory". This article introduces a composite model of organizational change that moves toward corporate responsibility (CR), built on a combination of ideal-type theories of change and existing conceptualizations of CR development. The result is a quad-motor theory of CR development in which life cycle, teleological, dialectical, and evolutionary motors of change operate interdependently, depending on the unit of change considered and the level of integration of CR principles into the company’s culture and strategy.

 

The Business & Society Research Seminar is a multidisciplinary seminar focusing on Business and Society (B&S) issues. It is meant to cut across disciplines and thematic bounders (management, law, sociology, economics…) to favor exchanges among scholars on large-scale societal problems. Business & Society Research questions the ways in which business and society affect each other. Topics covered may include (without any pretention of being exhaustive): business ethics, corporate sustainability, social and environmental implications of global businesses and value chains, business/government relations, innovative business models at the intersection of public and private interest.

 

 

05. November 2014, ESCP Europe

The SustBusy Research Center is happy to welcome and support the student initiative "EchoLogic" at ESCP Europe! The initiative, initially founded at Campus Turin, is escpecially dedicated to  sustainability issues in daily life on campus. Part of their succesfully promoted projects have been improvements in energy and water savings as well as waste management optimization. Right now the group of motivated students plans to expand their activities to all campuses, the current project being a "Sustainability Day" at ESCP Europe.

With the mission "Be the change you wish to see in the world!  Concurring to the creation of a sustainable future through the development of an entrepreneurial culture and to the promotion of an economic and environmental sustainability, starting from universities." additional support is more than welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05. November 2014, Berlin

On invitation of WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature Prof. Sylvie Geisendorf took part in an expert panel on Water Stewardship in the German parliament to shed light on the effective management of this essential resource for governments and businesses.  

Together with business representatives from Germany she discussed the consequences of water scarcity, the business risks involved as well as perspectives and responses to water challenges as a corporate strategy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05. November 2014, Reykjavik/Iceland

Two researchers of ESCP Europe presented their work in the biannual conference of the International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE) in August 2014 with the theme Well-being and Equity within Planetary Boundaries.

ISEE is a not-for-profit, member-governed, organization dedicated to advancing understanding of the relationships among ecological, social, and economic systems for the mutual well-being of nature and people and hosts one of the most important conferences in the field of Ecological Economics.