A doctoral workshop on stakeholder thinking will be arranged on June 14 at the University of Tampere. For more information, contact Anna Heikkinen (anna.heikkinen(a)uta.fi).
June 14, 2011, at 15.15–16.30, Paavo Koli -auditorium, Pinni A building, University of Tampere
You are warmly welcomed to attend a guest lecture “Responsible Capitalism” by Professor R. Edward Freeman from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Elis and Sigen Olsson professor R. Edward Freeman is academic director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and a University Professor at the University of Virginia. Freeman is perhaps best known for his award-winning book “Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach”, originally published in 1984. His book, “Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation and Success”, was published in 2007 and his new book, “Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art”, was published in 2010. He is the author or editor of more than 20 volumes in the areas of stakeholder management, business strategy and business ethics as well as more than 100 articles in a wide variety of publications. At its 2010 annual meeting, the Society for Business Ethics gave its “Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship Award” to Freeman, noting that there were more than 12,000 citations to his work on stakeholder theory. For more information, please see the University of Virigina website.
The event is part of a doctoral workshop on stakeholder thinking. The workshop and the event are organised by RESPMAN Research Group at the School of Management, University of Tampere.
Everybody welcome! Cocktails are served after the lecture at 16.30–17.00. Please register for the event by sending an email to anna.heikkinen@uta.fi before June 6, 2011.
For more information:
Professor Johanna Kujala, johanna.kujala@uta.fi
The Annual Research Conference of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) was arranged June 14–16, 2010 in Tampere, Finland. The theme of the conference was From Theory to Practice - How does business ethics matter? With this theme the conference focused on research into the reasons why organizations should take business ethics seriously, by concentrating on the motivations, consequences and implications of business ethics. As well as ongoing theoretical discussions, interested was placed on contributions that examine how business ethics is understood, applied, and enforced in practice.
The conference was arranged in collaboration by the RESPMAN Research Group at the University of Tampere, the University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, and the Finnish Chapter of EBEN. The conference was targeted for academics and practitioners interested in responding to the need to investigate, discuss and understand how, why, when and where business ethics matters.
In addition to an interesting conference addressing the motivations, consequences and implications of business ethics, delegates and accompanying persons were offered an attractive social programme with a welcoming reception at the City Hall and a conference dinner at the Finlayson Palace restaurant, known for traditional Continental cuisine and surrounded by a beautiful park.