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Tid: 29. august 2003 til 31. august 2003 EBEN 16th Annual Conference 2003
The Business Ethics Center of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences will host the EBEN 15th Annual Conference in August 29-31, 2003 in Budapest, Hungary.
Aim of the Conference
The title of the conference is "Building Ethical Institutions for Business" which allows the participants to reflect and debate on the role of institutions in the transformation of business toward a more human and ethical form.
Ethics in business is not only about personal choices, nor about organizational or corporate habits and behavior or even about global developments. Ethics in business is facing increasingly institutions of various kinds, social, economic, political, by which ethical possibilities for business are greatly influenced, positively or negatively. Think of new alliances between public and private players, or of the current system of financial transactions on a global scale. The conference is about the moral quality of institutional arrangements, be they existing or newly to be developed, and about how to manage them in a morally sound way.
Ethical institutions as meant in the title are broadly conceived. They include institutional arrangements at all levels of economic activities, from individual and organizational to societal and global, which aims at providing frameworks for cooperation, reconciling interests, elaborating norms, and monitoring business activities. The conference provides a forum for business ethicists, business and public administrators, consultants and NGO activists to assess and critically evaluate functioning ethical institutions as well as to explore opportunities for designing new institutions, which fits in the new economic, political, and social reality of the 21st century.
Issues to Be Addressed
The scope of conference includes stakeholder activism, global governance structures, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, corporate citizenship, ethical investment, stakeholder society, Internet-enabled corporation, environmental regimes, human rights, future generations, and ethical institutions for corporate accountability. What are the factors that contribute to the formation and working of successful ethical institutions? What are the most important problem areas and issues of conflict? What is the role of cultural factors in institution building? What are the relevant ethical and theoretical approaches in understanding ethical institutions?
Theoretical, empirical and managerial approaches to these and related issues are welcome. Papers should present theoretical framework for analyses, empirical references to existing practices or proposals for institutional reforms.
Language
The official language of the conference will be English.
Date and Venue
The conference date is August 29-31, 2003 (from Friday to Sunday) to provide participants with the opportunity to get less expensive airfare. An EBEN Doctoral Workshop will precede the conference.
The venue for the conference is the buildings of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, which lie on the fascinating bank of the Danube in the downtown of Budapest.
Deadline for Sending Abstract
Participants are asked to provide a detailed abstract of their planned presentation (500-750 words) accompaigned with a short biographical note (100 words) electronically by March 1, 2003 to:
Dr. Laszlo Zsolnai, Director
Business Ethics Center
Budapest University of Economic Sciences
1824 Budapest, P.O. Box 489
Hungary
Phone/Fax: 36-1 318 3037
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