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Dear colleagues, 
I am happy that my track proposal on
"Responsibility of corporations: Organisational values, formal norms, and managerial competencies"
was accepted for the 5th BSLab conference.
(Please find the text of the proposal further down):

5^th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium:

"COCREATING RESPONSIBLE FUTURES IN THE DIGITAL AGE:

Exploring new paths towards economic, social and environmental Sustainability "

Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

January 22-24, 2018.

For details please take a look at
http://bslab-symposium.net/

Deadlines are:

• EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:  NOVEMBER 1, 2017

• FEEDBACK ON THE SUBMISSION: by 2 WEEKS AFTER SUBMISSION

• EARLY REGISTRATION: by NOVEMBER 15, 2017

• REGISTRATION OF ELIGIBLE PROPOSALS: by  DECEMBER 15, 2017

• SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM PUBLICATION: by JANUARY 10, 2018

Hoping that for some of your the topic and the location might be of interest.
Gerhard Fink

A historical remark:  The University "Federico II" was  founded in 1224 in Naples, by the German Emperor Frederick II.It is the oldest public non-religious university in the world and the third largest university of Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Naples_Federico_II

Call for papers
Track on 

Responsibility of corporations: Organisational values, formal norms, and managerial competencies.

BSLab 2018 International Symposium, Naples, Jan 22-24, 2018

Track Chair: Gerhard Fink and Mauro Sciarelli

<gerhard.fink@wu.ac.at>

<mauro.sciarelli@unina.it>

 

"Responsibility" is a pretty much opaque term referring to some obligation between agents, be it persons, corporations, social systems, or broadly defined entities such as "the nature", "the environment", "the sea", "the air", or "the aerospace", etc.

"Responsibility" also is a value-laden and perhaps also an affect-laden concept. For illustration of value foundations of obligations, we may pick some values from the Shalom Schwartz Value Survey system (see Sagiv & Schwartz, 2007): social order, family security, national security, self-discipline, protect environment, unity with nature, world of beauty, social justice, freedom. Thus, we may safely assume that a variety of perceived "responsibilities" may be in contrast, if not in conflict with each other.

For papers in this track we invite papers on single concepts of "a responsibility", overview papers about "a range of related responsibilities", and overview papers about "contrasting or conflicting responsibilities". One also may think about "mutually supportive" responsibilities, where a balance between different obligations has to be found.

 

Papers on single narrow concepts of 'a responsibility', may deal with the emergence/foundation of a "responsibility" through framing of (urgent) issues, foundations and justifications by values and/or an emotional climate, its ideological strategic implementations, formal norms and managerial competencies to implement strategies 'towards meeting the responsibility'.

Overview papers on contrasting responsibilities may deal with the emergence of conflict over dominant values and their strategic and operative implementation, on counter narratives, alternate ideological foundations and implementation of strategic and operative change to foster "new responsibilities" and downgrade "old responsibilities".

Overview papers on related (jointly emerging) responsibilities may deal with the emergence of coalitions pursuing related dominant values and their strategic and operative implementation, on 'factual' narratives, 'necessarily joining' ideological foundations and implementation of strategic and operative action to reinforce 'traditional, but almost neglected responsibilities' or to foster "newly adapted or reviving responsibilities" and weaken "the current neglect of prevailing important responsibilities".

Reference:

Sagiv, L., Schwartz, S.H. (2007). Cultural values in organisations: insights for Europe, European J. International Management, 1(3)167-190.