Second International Conference

The Conference has been designed to understand and deal with the unprecedented impacts of CSR on the working population, society and environment and therefore to elaborate the various frameworks for it with a view to develop evolutionary CSR practices. This is the 2nd CSR conference in series, with the first successful conference in The University of Surrey in 2014, and will be an excellent platform to discuss the global themes of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, ethics and governance in all their various dimensions.

Conference Program

Building New Bridges between Business and Society

Location

Nanjing, China

dates

July 29-31, 2015

program
July 29 Wednesday
  • 9:30 a.m Official Opening of the Conference

    2nd Floor, F6, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics (NUFE)
    Chair: Hualiang Lu
    Welcome speech by President of NUFE.
    Speech by Prof. Dr. Nick Capaldi, Conference Chair, Legendre-Soulé Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans.
    Speech by Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter, Conference Co-Chair, Dr. Jürgen Meyer Endowed Chair for International Business Ethics and CSR, Cologne Business School, Germany.

  • 10a.m. - 12:00 a.m. SESSION ONE (PLENARY SESSION I)

    2nd Floor, F6, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics (NUFE)
    Chair: Rene Schmidpeter

    Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy, Executive Director, The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Rockford University

    Corruption in Business and Regulation as Solution or Cause

    Liu Hansong, Chief Officer for International Labour Affairs, Deputy Director of International Department, China Enterprise Confederation

    Promoting CSR for Chinese Enterprises in Africa

    Wang Xinyu, Deputy Dean, Economic Transition Research Centre, Beijing Industrial University Opportunities and Challenges of Sino-German CSR Cooperation Lifetime Contribution Award (Academic)

  • 2:00p.m. - 3:30 p.m. SESSION TWO

    RM 1: CSR Origins
    Venue: No. 6 Conference Room, 1st Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (13) Stephen Hicks “Entrepreneurship’s Relationship to CSR”
    (36) Rene Schmidpeter “CSR as a Business Approach”
    (37) Martin Brueckner “The Licenses to Operate: On the Interplay of Political, Social and Actuarial Risk Dimensions and the Building of a Conceptual Bridge Between CSR and the Social License to Operate Concept”

    RM 2: Sustainability
    Venue: No. 5 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (26) Weikang Zou “Can Banks Turn China Green? ---Green Credit in the CSR of Chinese Banking Industry
    (8) Nayan Mitra “In The Pursuit of Building The Foundation For Sustainability”
    (38) Carsten Deckert “Sustainable Logistics: A Framework for Green Logistics and City Logistics”

  • 4:00p.m. - 5:30pm SESSION THREE

    RM 3: Asia
    Venue: No. 6 Conference Room, 1st Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (9) Magumi Suto “Does Foreign Ownership Enhance the Corporate Social Performance of Japanese Firms?”
    (32) Liangrong Zu “Sustainability Risk and Crisis Management: A Taoism’s Perspective”
    (24) Wu Sijia Zhang Chenzhao “Study on the impact of social responsibility on business performance for Chinese listed liquor enterprises”

    RM4: Sociological Perspectives
    Venue: No. 5 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (5) Brunhilde Schram, Thomas Walker CMC “Qualityseal for Sustainability and C(S)R (Corporate Responsibility) ECCOS²²
    (30) Rute Abreu “Accounting for Sustainability: The case study of Petrobras”
    (39) Ivan Hilliard, “Presenting the SEEk model- a holistic measurement tool for responsible management”

July 30 Thursday
  • 8:30 a.m. - 10:30a.m. SESSION FOUR (PLENARY SESSION I)

    Venue: Ground Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair: Zu Liangrong
    Thomas Walker, Walk-on, Institute for sustainable solutions
    The CSR Strategy of Europe and the Impacts on the Global Economy
    Wang Xuemei, Director of Workers Rights Protection Department, International Department, All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)
    Labor Dimension of CSR in China
    Yin Guoxin, President, Chenfeng Group, Jintan, P.R. China
    CSR and Sustainable Strategy of Chenfeng Group
    Lifetime Contribution Award (Business)

  • 10:45a.m. - 12:15a.m. SESSION FIVE

    RM5: Sociological Perspectives
    Venue: No. 6 Conference Room, 1st Floor, Xianlin Hotel

    Chair:
    (1) Debarati Das Gupta “Women symbolism in Marketing – Are the human rights legit?”
    (18) Lina Widyastuti “Best Practice of Integrative Model in Mitigating the Impact of International Labor Migration on Family Left Behind”
    (40) LIU Yongqiang “Endogenous Mechanism and Structure of Work-Family Balance Institutions in Chinese Enterprises”

    RM6: Management
    Venue: No. 5 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (7) Thomas Walker, Ron Cambridge “Entrepreneurial Wisdom – Essentials to enable wise decisions and resilience”
    (34) Fabiana Di Lorenzo “Disclosing the use of conflict minerals: the path from mandatory to soft law regulation in matter of supply chains due diligence and new forms of legal advancement”
    (35) Bonnie Lewtas “Sustainable Hospitality Management – Challenges and Opportunities for Small Island Destinations: Case Study British Virgin Islands

  • 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. SESSION SIX

    RM7: CSR Investment:
    Venue: No. 6 Conference Room, 1st Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (27) Ioanna Boulouta “Luck of trust in corporations: a barrier to CSR returns on investments”
    (28) Sujie Wang “Study On The Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility And Social Responsibility Investment”
    RM8: Corporate Finance
    Venue: No. 5 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (29) Marian Eabrasu “Betting on Floods: Lessons from an Indonesian Experiment in Index-Based Microinsurance”
    (31) Rute Abreu “The importance of Gold in the financial report”

  • 4:00p.m. - 5:30p.m. SESSION SEVEN

    RM9: Asia 2
    Venue: No. 6 Conference Room, 1st Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (21) Wang Mengya “Study on the impacting factors of triple performance for farmers’ professional cooperatives: A case study of Jiangsu Province”
    (12) Puan Yatim “Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) and Sustainability Reporting within the Malaysian Plantation Sector”
    (41) Bing Zhu, “CSR in the Context of Transition Economy: An Evaluation of Enterprises CSR Practices in China”

    RM10: CSR and China
    Venue: No. 5 Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Xianlin Hotel
    Chair:
    (23) Wu Maying “Study on the impact of business ethics education on corporate social responsibility orientation of Chinese college students”
    (22) Yan Jiang “Study on the corporate social responsibility information disclosure and equity capital cost for Chinese enterprises”
    (42) Liu Ke “Environmental accounting information disclosure of listed companies analyzed about China's steel industry”

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