1st International Conference on Social and Environmental Accountability (ICSEA) 2014 Colombo

The first Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Social and Envi­ron­men­tal Account­abil­ity (ICSEA) is orga­nized with the inten­tion of defin­ing CSR’s ter­ri­tory and scope as there is no exact def­i­n­i­tion or scope avail­able to iden­tify and develop CSR activ­i­ties fur­ther to enhance per­for­mance of busi­nesses. The event will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka at the Gal­adari Hotel on Novem­ber 4 – 5, 2014.

In 1970, the econ­o­mist and Nobel lau­re­ate Mil­ton Fried­man pub­lished an arti­cle in The New York Times Mag­a­zine titled “The Social respon­si­bil­ity of busi­ness is to increase its prof­its”. In the arti­cle, he referred to Cor­po­rate Social Respon­si­bil­ity pro­grams as “hyp­o­crit­i­cal win­dow dressing”.

How­ever over the past decade this per­spec­tive had been changed dra­mat­i­cally. As an instance more than 8000 busi­nesses around the world have signed UN Global com­pact pledg­ing to show good global cit­i­zen­ship in the areas of human rights, labor stan­dards and envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tion. Nev­er­the­less Gov­ern­ment, Cus­tomers, Employ­ees in a nut­shell Gen­eral Pub­lic is push­ing busi­ness orga­ni­za­tions to be a respon­si­ble cor­po­rate citizen.

The main objec­tive of the con­fer­ence is to open­ing plat­form for a local and Inter­na­tional researchers, schol­ars and experts and prac­ti­tion­ers to dis­cuss and debate on this spe­cific and impor­tant research area and ulti­mately dis­cus­sion will mark new ter­ri­tory for CSR. Hope­fully this asso­ci­a­tion will trig­ger some new insights and ideas in these areas of research. We are look­ing for­ward to excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions and pre­sen­ta­tions. Sec­ondly con­fer­ence will be pro­vid­ing oppor­tu­nity to net­work with each other and share their knowl­edge by set­ting up series of activ­i­ties includ­ing cul­tural show, net­work­ing din­ner, post con­fer­ence tour, dis­cus­sions and one to one meetings.

Orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee of the 1^st Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Cor­po­rate Social Respon­si­bil­ity 2014 invites Researchers, Schol­ars, edu­ca­tors and indus­try lead­ers around the world to sub­mit their full papers, work­ing papers or abstract to take part of this conference.

• CSR and Busi­ness Ethics
• CSR and Con­sumers: Social Mar­ket­ing & Sus­tain­able Marketing
• CSR and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions: Pub­lic Rela­tions, Pres­sure Groups & Media
• CSR and Indus­try: Low-​Carbon Energy, Waste Man­age­ment & Sus­tain­able Industry
• Sus­tain­abil­ity, Inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion and Busi­ness: Multi-​national Cor­po­rate Accountability
• CSR and Role of Government

• Global Gov­er­nance and Cor­po­rate Liability
• CSR and Triple Bot­tom Line
• CSR Report­ing and Risk Management
• CSR and Value Creation
• The Future of CSR and Respon­si­ble Investment
• CSR and Cor­po­rate Performance
• Sanc­tions for non-​compliance in a global market
• Fight­ing Cor­po­rate Greed and Com­bat­ing Corruption
• Illicit Busi­ness Prac­tices: Child Labor, Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking

Awards

Best paper Award

This award will be granted to the best paper in ICSEA 2014 . Orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee will select the best paper based on feed­back of sci­en­tific review com­mit­tee. Eval­u­a­tion based on rel­e­vancy of paper on given themes, con­tent and qual­ity of the paper and impo­tency of find­ings. Both oral and vir­tual paper sub­mis­sion will be eli­gi­ble to “Best paper award”. Deci­sion of ICSEA 2014 orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee is the final decision.

Best Pre­sen­ta­tion Awards

This award will be granted to pre­sen­ters based on their pre­sen­ta­tions at the con­fer­ence. Qual­ity of the pre­sen­ta­tion, con­tent of the pre­sen­ta­tion and level of inter­ac­tion with the audi­ence in the Q&A ses­sion will be used by Ses­sion Chair to select the best paper in his/​her ses­sion. Deci­sion of Ses­sion Chair will be the final decision.

Best stu­dent award

This award will be granted to stu­dent pre­sen­ta­tions. Qual­ity of the pre­sen­ta­tion, time man­age­ment and qual­ity of the find­ings rel­e­vant to ongo­ing prac­tices may have higher level of chance to get selected. Deci­sion of the ICSEA 2014 Research panel will be the final decision.

Sci­en­tific Committee

• Dr. Nalin Abesekara – Sri Lanka
• Prof. Anne Marie Baga­dion – Philippines
• Prof. Hard­eep Cha­hal – India
• Dr. Sabyasachi Das­gupta – India
• Prof. Stan­ley George – India
• Dr. Sami Kajalo – Finland
• Prof. Paul Sergius Koku – USA
• Dr. Veena Tewari Nandi – India
• Prof. Patri­cia Ordóñez de Pab­los – Spain
• Prof. Ner­isa N. Pal­adan, D.B.A. – Philippines
• Dr. Jose Maria Álvarez Rodriguez – Spain
• Prof. Rohini Sama­ras­ingha – Sri Lanka
• Dr. D.A.C Suranga Silva – Sri Lanka
• Ms. Vasupradha Srikr­ishna – India
• Prof. Supathanish Termsnguan­wong – Thailand
• Prof. Neville Waranaku­la­sooriya – Sri Lanka