Program

Conference on International Corporate Responsibility

7-9 June 2002
Pittsburgh, USA

All activities take place in the Jimmy Stewart room of the hotel unless otherwise indicated.


Friday 7 June

8:00 Continental breakfast; pick up name tags.

9:00 Welcome
        Peter Madsen, Director, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University
        Indira Nair, Vice Provost for Education, Carnegie Mellon University
        John Hooker, T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Carnegie Mellon University

9:15 Keynote Address: Olukunle Iyanda, Professor of Marketing, University of Botswana, Inclusive globalisation: A challenge to multinational enterprises

10:00 Break

10:15 Kathleen Getz, Kogod School of Business, American University, USA, The social responsibilities of business in weakened city societies

10:45  Duane Windsor, Jones School of Management, Rice University, USA, Global corporate social responsibility: International regimes and the constellation of corruption, poverty and resource wars 

11:15 Break

11:30 Eric Palmer, Philosophy Department, Allegheny College, USA, The ethics and law of artificial persons: Justice, right and responsibility for multinational corporations

12:00 Frank Winfrey, Business and Economics, Lyon College, USA, The corporate form and corporate responsibility in the international context

12:30 Lunch in Rhapsody II room of hotel

2:00 Jonathan Doh Management Dept, Villanova Univ, USA (with Terrence Guay), NGOs and international corporate responsibility: How nongovernmental organizations influence international  labor and environmental standards

2:30 Jo Ann Oravec, College of Business, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, 1984 and September 11 – Electronic surveillance and corporate responsibility

3:00 Break

3:15 Patsy Lewellyn, School of Business, University of South, Carolina, Aiken, USA, Toward a theory of measuring responsible corporate performance

3:45 Karen E. Schnietz, Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice Univ, USA (with Marc J. Epstein ), Does a reputation for corporate social responsibility pay off? 

Late afternoon: Free time

Evening: Dinner in Rhapsody Ballroom of hotel.  Speaker:  Kears Pollock, Executive Vice President (retired), PPG Industries; charter member and chair, PPG Ethics Committee.


Saturday 8 June

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:30 Mollie Painter-Morland, Centre for Occupational Ethics, University of Pretoria, South Africa 

10:00 Rosa Chun, Manchester Business School, UK, How global 500 firms promote a socially responsible character: A comparative study of Asia, America and Europe 

10:30 Break

10:45 Clarence Da Gama Pinto, Mt. Eliza Business School, Melbourne, Australia, Cross-cultural ethical training for managers  

11:15 Dimitar Panayotov, Business Dept, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, (with Angel Georgiev), Ethical standards and intercultural differences in business  

12:00 Lunch in Opus Restaurant of hotel

2:00 John Meyer, Business Law & Economics, Northern State University, North Dakota, USA, (with Hillar
Neumann), An improved method of defining and measuring corruption for international comparisons

2:30 Vladimir Petkoski, Economics Dept., University of Sts. Cyril & Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia, Corruption and corporate social responsibility  

3:00 Break

3:15 David Lea, History Dept, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Corruption and stakeholder theory: Their relevance to development in Melanesia  

3:45 Eduardo Valdez, Philosophy Dept, University of Philippines, The corporate citizen as a member of civil society: The Philippine experiences during the 2001 people power revolution

Late afternoon: Bus tour of Pittsburgh (departure time to be announced).

Evening: Cocktails and dinner at Monterey Bay Restaurant, overlooking Pittsburgh


Sunday 9 June

8:00 Continental breakfast

9:00 Lee E. Preston, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA (with James E. Post and Daniel H. Rosen), Implementing international corporate responsibility in China  

9:30 Lin Miao, Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Creating business value through sustainability management

10:00 Break

10:15 John Cohan, Attorney-at-Law, Beverly Hills, USA, Environmental rights of indigenous peoples under the Alien  Tort Claims Act, the public trust doctrine and corporate ethics, and  environmental dispute resolutions

10:45 Sheldon Wein, Office of Regional Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, Montevideo, Uruguay; Dept of Philosophy, St. Mary's University, Canada; A basic goods approach to international corporate responsibility: The case of hiring in developing nations  

11:15 Jeanne Logsdon, Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, USA (with Donna J. Wood), Global business citizenship: Responding to global stakeholders with cultural sensitivity  

11:45 Closing remarks

12:00 Conference is adjourned

 

 

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