Friday Septmenber 17, 2010

University of San Diego

This Summit will explore how product innovations and processes can address some of the most threatening and complex social and environmental problems we face today. In the new millennium, we are witnessing creativity married to practical thinking, generating a wave of innovations with the goal of contributing to a more sustainable and socially just world. Future generations are dependent on our ability to capture the power of new ideas. This summit will address the following questions:

•       In what ways are innovations contributing to increase prosperity and well being among the world’s poor?
•       In what ways can business support local innovations that represent good economic opportunities as well as vehicles for social change?
•       What are stepping stone innovations for generating goods and developing processes for significantly reducing ecological footprints?
•       How can innovations have the greatest impact on the triple bottom line—people, planet and profit?
 
For more information go to: http://www.sandiego.edu/ahlers/peace
 
Event co-sponsored by the Ahlers Center for International Business and the Center for Peace and Commerce.

3 ISSUES

The dominant western theories that underpinned the short-termism and high-risk behaviour of institutions and individuals in global markets are shattered. In this vacuum, Emerging nations have claimed a greater say in defining global economic governance.

The combined effects of economic and social globalization have altered the balance of power between “developed” and “emerging” nations. Access to capital, knowledge and talent have levelled the global playing fields on which firms – old and new – compete.

The increased economic and geopolitical weight of emerging markets and their leading firms has a price: a greater responsibility to address social, environmental and governance issues to ensure the long-term sustainability and stability of the global market system.

2 QUESTIONS

• How is CR understood and applied in emerging market contexts and cultures – by old and new multinationals?
• And, is it viable as a framework for tackling the critical challenges ahead?

1 CONFERENCE

EABIS Annual Colloquium “Corporate Responsibility and Emerging Markets” - 20-21 September 2010- St. Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management

Today’s societies are facing immense social, economical and ecological challenges. Meetings on this ‘global crisis of many facets’ are numerous, and even more possible answers are being put forward. One concept appears to offer broad solutions: sustainability. However, while organic champagne pops at receptions, there are still human beings starving in many countries of the world. It is this area of tension, namely between a growing understanding of the need for sustainable development, and the seeming impossibility to implement it on a global scale.

The challenge now is to rethink pressing problems of today and tomorrow on an economical and cultural, on a global and at the same time regional scale. Sustainability is thus not a mere add-on but rather a dialogue of cultures leading towards a conscious reflection and finally to a more sustainable composure: beyond sustainability.

The Winter School 2010 aims to provide a platform to enter into a critical dialogue between culture and economics reaching beyond sustainability. During one week of inspiring workshops, intensive debates, inter-cultural exchange and artistic interventions the participants will gain new skills that enable them to act as circulators and change agents for sustainable development in economics and culture.

Between November 7th and 13th 2010 the oikos Winter School "beyond sustainability" welcomes 25-30 highly engaged students and young professionals from all over the world on the beautiful campus of Witten/Herdecke University.

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www.oikos-winterschool.org