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Cranfield School of Management and EABIS would like to thank all the speakers, paper presenters, exhibitors, as well as the AV, IT, Events and support teams at Cranfield who made the seventh annual colloquium, such a resounding success.

A summary of the proceedings will be posted on this website shortly. The ebst of the academic papers from the colloquium, will be published as a special edition of the Corporate Governance journal next year.

Welcome

Cranfield was honoured to be the host the EABIS 2008 Colloquium. Over the coming months, we will be progressively adding more information to this website, so please do come back and check the site regularly.

This year’s Colloquium focussed on how businesses embed a deep commitment to Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. What does existing knowledge and practice in leadership and organisational change have to tell us about how to embed CR and sustainability successfully?

As usual, the Colloquium had a mix of business, business-stakeholder and academic speakers. We maintained successful features of previous years such as the marketplace solutions exchange on the afternoon of the first day; and the parallel tracks where academics and practitioners presented their papers on the second morning.

But we also took into account the evaluations from previous colloquia attendees. They asked for more networking opportunities - especially for newcomers to EABIS events. So, there was a "speed networking" event on the opening evening led by a young entrepreneur Oli Barratt; and a chance to join named "table hosts" from Cranfield and EABIS at the gala dinner held in the magnificent surroundings of historic Woburn Abbey. We also responded to requests for more women speakers and more voices from emerging markets. There were also requests for more opportunities to air views. We had a pre-Colloquium on-line discussion; a chance to use "open space meeting technology; more inter-active plenary sessions; and the option of "early riser" breakfast seminars on the Friday morning.

There were also be more opportunities to "drill down" on key topics of particular interest, with a choice of six interactive seminars on the Thursday afternoon, each led by experts from business and academia.

So, thank you for coming and helping to make EABIS08, the best EABIS Colloquium yet.

David Grayson and Andrew Kakabadse

Andrew Kakabadse David Grayson