Beyond CSR? Business, Poverty and Social Justice
1 day conference 22 May 2006,
National Liberal Club, London
Timetable
9.00am to9.30am / Coffee and Registration at National Liberal Club
9.30am to
9.45am / Welcome & Opening Remarks
Prof. Jedrzej George Frynas and Dr. Peter Newell
9.45am to 11.00am / Keynote Speakers Round-table
Rt Hon Clare Short MP and Rt Hon John Redwood MP
11.00am to 12.30pm / Parallel Sessions
Panel A. Who benefits? Impacts of CSR Initiatives (Main Conference Room)
Panel B. CSR and International Development
12.30 to 1.30pm / Lunch
1.30 to 3.00pm / Parallel Sessions
Panel C. Governance Dimensions of CSR (Main Conference Room)
Panel D. Corporate Accountability
3.00 to 3.30pm / Tea and Coffee Break
3.30pm to 5.00pm / Parallel Sessions
Panel E. Power and Participation in CSR (Main Conference Room)
Panel F. CSR in Developing Economies
5.00 to 5.30pm / Summaries by Panel Chairs and Closing Remarks
Chaired by Prof. Adrian Henriques
5.30pm / Conference ends
PANEL A. CSR and International Development
Panel Chairs: Rhys Jenkins, University of East Anglia Peter Lund Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Maureen Kilgour, University of Warwick, ‘The U.N. Global Compact, women’s equality and development’
Julia Sagebien, Dalhousie University, Canada, and Melissa Whellams, Saint Mary's University, ‘CSR and development: Broken promises or undue expectations?’
Angela Hansen, Peacepath Consulting, ‘The Millennium Development Goals business: Corporations in the architecture of international development?’
Ralf Barkemeyer, University of Leeds ‘Legitimacy as a key driver of CSR and consequences for the development agenda’
PANEL B. Who benefits? Impacts of CSR initiatives
Panel Chairs: Michael Blowfield, Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, USA; Anita Chan, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, Australia
Michael Blowfield, ‘The search for meaning – how to measure CSR’s impact in the developing world’
Stephanie Barrientos, University of Sussex, ‘Assessing the Impact of Codes of Labour Practice on Workers in Global Production’
Kate MacDonald, University of Oxford, ‘Globalising justice within coffee supply chains? Fair Trade, Starbucks and the transformation of supply chain governance’
Anita Chan, ‘Transnational Corporations-Facilitated Trade Union Elections in China--Challenges and Possibilities for Workers' Participation’
PANEL C Governance Dimensions of CSR
Panel Chairs: Halina Ward, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK; Soren Jeppesen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark;
Anne Tallontire, Natural Resources Institute, ‘Regulation, re-regulation and co-regulation: Exploring governance issues in agri-food chains’
Joris Oldenziel , SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations), Netherlands, ‘Governing CSR: The responsibility of states to apply CSR standards to trade’
Shuaihua Cheng, Shanghai Municipal Development Research Centre, China ‘The role of the State in the CSR Movement: A China Study’
Onyeka Kingsley Osuji, University of Manchester, ‘Governance Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility: The State` s Role in the Regulation of Corporate Non-Financial Reporting’
PANEL D. Corporate Accountability
Panel Chairs: David Fig, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; Chandra Bushan, Centre for Science and Environment, India
David Fig, ‘Not worth the paper: The social and environmental impacts of eucalyptus plantations in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’
David Murray, EITI International Advisory Group ‘Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Extractive Industry Revenue Management’
Lucy de las Casas and Robert Lloyd, One World Trust, ‘Realising Corporate Accountability’
Marketa Evans, University of Toronto, Canada, ‘CSR and beyond: MNCs, NGOs and International Development?
PANEL E. Power and Participation in CSR
Panel Chairs: Maggie Opondo, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Marina Prieto-Carron, University of Bristol
Marina Prieto-Carron and Maggie Opondo, ‘Power and participation: women workers' voices from Nicaragua and Kenya’
Jem Bendell , AUT, NZ ‘Facing and Defacing Corporate Power’
Peter Utting, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, ‘CSR and equality’
Donna Chung, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, ‘Power and Participation in CSR: New Voices and Evolving Approaches to Transnational Corporate Self-Regulation of Labour Standards in China’s Apparel and Footwear Industries’
F. CSR in the Developing World
Panel Chairs: George Frynas, Middlesex University Business School, UK Ana Muro, Centre for Corporate Sustainability, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kenneth Amaeshi, University of Warwick, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility as Deinstitutionalization of Corruption in Developing Economies: a case study of Nigeria’
Lars Gulbrandsen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, ‘Oil company CSR collaboration in 'new' petro-states’
Ana Muro, ‘From Philanthropy to Strategy and Back Again: Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility in Argentina’
S Jaseem Ahmad, Middlesex University Business School, UK, ‘From Principles to Practice: Exploring Corporate Social Responsibility in Pakistan‘
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