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Academic Conference on Social Responsibility
Theme: Connecting Across the Disciplines

July 15 – 16, 2010
University of Washington
Tacoma, WA

Conference Overview

The Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility at the Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma is pleased to announce its first academic research conference. The conference aims to facilitate high quality, rigorous scholarship on a wide range of social responsibility issues.

Scholars from multiple disciplines including accounting, finance, management and marketing are invited to share their research perspectives and results. The conference will showcase the most current research within the disciplines and allow participants to identify points of intersection across disciplines.

The conference will feature research presentations from participants, and two panel discussion with academic journal editors and leading scholars.

Journal Editors Panel

R. Duane Ireland
Academy of Management Journal

Steven J. Kachelmeier
The Accounting Review

Ajay Kohli
Journal of Marketing

Scholar Panel

Ronald P. Hill
Marketing & Business Law

Jeanne M. Logsdon
Management

Dennis Patten
Accounting

Conference Schedule

The two day conference will start at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 15th and conclude by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 16th.

Registration

The registration fee is $125 and includes conference materials, Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast and lunch, as well as web access to full text of all papers presented. The fee does not include lodging or transportation. A discounted hotel rate will be available at a nearby hotel.

We welcome current and prospective scholars, including Doctoral students in this area of research. The Center will provide financial support covering registration fees and accommodations (double occupancy) for up to ten Ph.D. students.

Additional Information

For more information on the conference, please visit our website at or contact Joe Lawless, Executive Director at jlawless@uw.edu or (253) 692-5685.

Call for Papers
Academic Conference on Social Responsibility
July 15-16, 2010

The growing body of research on the social and environmental impact of businesses raises new questions for academics that span across disciplines. This conference allows scholars who focus on different aspects of social responsibility to share their research, providing links between the decisions, practices, outcomes, and reporting of the social and environmental practices of business.

Theoretical and empirical papers are welcomed on a wide range of topics related to social practices of businesses. Papers may be linked to the conference theme “Connecting Across the Disciplines” or may focus on a specific topic within the broad field of Corporate Social Responsibility. Research related to social responsibility topics such as those listed below is welcomed at the conference.

• Sustainability
• Cause-Related Marketing
• Green Marketing or Management
• Strategic CSR
• Performance Reporting
• Governance and Accountability
• Corporate Citizenship
• Reputation and Branding
• Social & Environmental Accounting

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010. Papers can be submitted in MS Word format to the Center’s email at clsr@uw.edu. All submissions received by the deadline will be double-blind reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Those submitting papers will be asked to provide blind peer reviews for one or two papers submitted to the conference. The review period is from early February to early March. Authors will be notified of decisions by March 15, 2010.

Papers should not exceed 30 pages of double-spaced text (exclusive of references and back matter). Please use standard 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins and 11 or 12 point font. Include a title page with all authors’ names, affiliations and contact information and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Please number all pages of the manuscript.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Submission of a paper indicates at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper if it is accepted. Abstracts of all papers presented at the conference will be publicly posted on the conference website. Full text will be available to attendees only. Papers submitted should not be copyrighted except by the author(s) and should not have been accepted for publication in a journal. The copyrights for all forms of presentation at the conference will remain with the author(s).

For any questions pertaining to the Call for Papers, please contact the Center’s Academic Director, Dr. Jill Purdy at jpurdy@uw.edu or (253) 692-5635

Please visit the Center’s website at for additional information and updates. Sustainability Cause-Related Marketing Green Marketing or Management Strategic CSR Performance Reporting Governance and Accountability Corporate Citizenship Reputation and Branding Social & Environmental Accounting

UW Tacoma is located on Puget Sound just 35 miles south of Seattle. For more information, visit traveltacoma.com.

 

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