Provisional Timetable

Wednesday 10th September

10:30	Seminar for EABIS / EU Alliance Laboratory on Non-Financial Performance
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Seminar for EABIS / EU Alliance Laboratory on Non-Financial Performance
16.30	Close of seminar session
16.30	Pre-conference registration opens
17:00	EABIS Supervisory Board
19.00	Board meeting closes
19:15	Opening of EABIS World Café
	Buffet Supper and Cocktail Reception Welcome from Vice Chancellor of Cranfield University, Professor Sir John O’Reilly Welcome from Director of Cranfield School of Management, Professor Michael Osbaldeston Speed networking led by young entrepreneur Oli Barrett
22:00	Close of Reception and World Café

DAY 1: Thursday 11th September

Opening Session

8:00	Conference Registration Opens
9:00	Welcome:	Michael Osbaldeston, Director, Cranfield School of Management Professor David Grayson, Conference Chair, Cranfield School of Management
9:15	Address:	Professor Gilbert Lenssen – President, EABIS
9:30	Setting the Scene – Introductions from business leaders and stakeholders
9:45	Plenary I:	Embedding Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability – The Critical Challenges for Organisational Change
	Key Question:	Building on recent academic and consulting literature highlighting the challenges of embedding ESG issues in the firm (McKinsey 2007 et al), what are the vital knowledge gaps and research questions that need to be addressed to facilitate successful organisational change and the integration of CR & Sustainability into processes, systems and culture?
	Speakers:	Sir Michael Rake – Chairman, British Telecom Group
		Professor Dexter Dunphy – University of Sydney
	Facilitator:	Daniel Franklin – Executive Editor, The Economist
	Comment:	Jane Nelson – Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
11.00	Coffee Break
11:30	Plenary II:	Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability – Innovation and New Approaches to Leading Successful Organisational Change
	Key Question:	Given the lack of research focus and understanding around embedding CR and Sustainability in organisational change processes, what are the key success factors that enable corporate leadership to reposition the firm from an internal resource and systems perspective and drive the mainstreaming agenda?
	Panellists:	Peter White – Global Sustainability Director, Procter & Gamble
		Professor S. Prakash Sethi – Distinguished Professor of Management, Zicklin School of Business, CUNY
		Professor Andrew Kakabadse – Professor of International Management Development, Cranfield School of Management & Vice President, EABIS
	Facilitator:	Peter Lacy – Head of Sustainability Practice, Accenture, Europe, Africa and Latin America Special Advisor – EABIS
	Comment:	John Elkington – Founder, SustainAbility
12:45	Lunch
	Optional Business Networking Lunch “Why should businesses send people to business schools?”

Afternoon Session

14.00	EABIS Knowledge and Learning Forum – The Forum will provide an interactive platform to profile current and future EABIS projects and activities. A key part of this year’s event is to launch the individual cases of the LBS-INSEAD Curriculum Development Project.

15:45	Breakout Workshops – Delving Deeper on CR and Sustainability: Leadership and Organisational Change
	Session A:	The Changing Role of Business in Society and the Challenges of Transforming Organisational Culture
	Key Question:	While many organisations focus on the implementation of change processes at the systemic and structural levels, they often ignore the culture of the firm as a primary barrier or success factor. What are the leading insights and approaches that enable/empower an organisation to transform its culture and collective behaviour in parallel with systemic change around CR and Sustainability?
	Speakers:	John Elkington – Founder, SustainAbility
		Janet Blake – Global CSR Director, BT
		Dr Laura Quinn – Research Director, Center for Creative Leadership
		Prof. Alfons Sauquet – Dean, ESADE Business School
	Facilitator:	Mark Wade

	Session B:	Private Equity, Organisational Change and Sustainable Value Creation for Shareholders and Society
	Key Question:	Through restructuring and enforced organisational change within their acquisitions, to what degree do private equity firms truly perceive and measure corporate responsibility and sustainability as drivers of both earnings / NPV and the intangible assets of the firm?
	Speakers:	Nigel Doughty – CEO, Doughty Hanson
		David Shepherd – Private Equity Canada
		Dr Danyelle Guyatt – Bath Business School and Mercer Consulting
	Facilitator:	Dr Lance Moir – CFO, WIN Plc

	Session C:	Business in Society, the Climate Change Paradigm and Implications for Organisational Change
	Key Question:	Given our general lack of foresight on the implications of climate change for organisational capability, what kind of leadership, knowledge and awareness development, and HRM innovations will be needed to re-engineer the organisational systems and culture of the firm? Will these change processes differ radically from other ones currently in place and use?
	Speakers:	Dorothy Mackenzie – CEO, Dragon International
		Dr Andy Reisinger – IGCC Panel
		Dr Chris Preist – Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory, Hewlett Packard
		Professor Ans Kolk – University of Amsterdam Business School
	Facilitator:	Dr Wayne Visser – Senior Associate, University of Cambridge Programme for Industry and CEO, CSR Internacional

	Session D:	CR, Sustainability and Quality Management – Driving the Processes, Systems and Structures of Organisational Change
	Key Question:	To what degree can Quality Management be viewed as a strategic framework that facilitates the successful embedding of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability in an organisation’s culture, structure, processes and systems? Is it a driver of incremental or transformational change, or even a process-rooted barrier to change?
	Speakers:	Dr Madhav Mehra – Chairman, World Quality Council & President, World Governance Council
		Professor Luk van Wassenhove – Professor and Director of Centre for Social Innovation, INSEAD
		Nikos Avlonas – Co-Founder & MD, Centre for Sustainability and Excellence
		Mike Patrick – Director Corporate Responsibility, TNT Express
	Facilitator:	John Swannick – CSR Director, Lloyds TSB

	Session E:	CR, Sustainability and the Strategic Case for Internal Integration: From External Engagement to Building Organisational Capability
	Key Question:	Building upon key insights from EABIS’ Project RESPONSE on the correlation between internal embedding of CR and high corporate social performance, how can companies improve their integration of external expectations into core business processes, strategic decision-making and internal change initiatives?
	Speakers:	Professor Maurizio Zollo – Bocconi University, RESPONSE Project Director
		Alexy Germanovich – Senior VP, Sustainable Development, Sevestral
		Richard Howitt – Rapporteur on CSR, European Parliament
		Dr Aileen Ionescu-Somers – Deputy Director, CSM Forum, IMD
	Facilitator:	Celia Moore – Director, Corporate Citizenship & Affairs Executive, IBM

	Session F:	Systems Change, HRM and Embedding Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
	Key Question:	How should organisations approach the integration of CR and Sustainability into core competency frameworks, and what are the change implications for internal HRM systems, ranging from recruitment, talent promotion, performance management and balanced scorecards, training and development?
	Speakers:	Chris Bones – Principal, Henley Management College
		Sister Judith Zoebelein – Web Director, The Vatican
	Facilitator:	Professor Shaun Tyson, Emeritus Professor HRM, Cranfield School of Management

17.00	Town Hall Review
	Key Insights and Findings of Day 1, facilitated by Colloquium Chairs David Grayson and Andrew Kakabadse
	Professor Marc Epstein – Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas
	Presentation of HP / Ashridge MBA Essay Award
17:30	Session closes
17.45	Buses depart for off-campus hotels

Evening Activities

18:45	Buses depart from campus for Gala Dinner
19:00	Buses depart from off-campus hotels for Gala Dinner
19:15	Drinks reception opens Presentation of the Faculty Pioneer of the Year Award by Judy Samuelson, Aspen Institute
20:00	Gala Dinner at Woburn Abbey
22:30	Close of Gala Dinner, buses return to hotels and campus

DAY 2: Friday 12th September

Optional Themed Breakfast & Network-building symposium

08.00	CR Research, European Funding and EABIS Network Strategies
	Leaders:	Professor Nigel Roome – CSR Chair, Solvay Business School
		Professor Gilbert Lenssen – President, EABIS
		Simon Pickard – Director General, EABIS

Morning Session – presentation of papers

Parallel Sessions

Track 1 - ‘Doing’ CR- Cases from across the globe’	Chaired by Dr James Collins
CSR Leadership in Spain’s MNC	Dr. Pedro Frances
Corporate Responsibility and Responsibility Leadership Systems: an exploratory study in German multinational corporations	Erik G Hansen & Ralf Reichwald
Leadership and Internal Allocation of Corporate Responsibility: Facts from listed Italian firms	Prof. Mario Molteni & Matteo Pedrini
Mulukanoor Women’s Mutually Aided Milk Producers’ Co-operative Union Limited	Srividhya Raghavan
Leadership and co-creation of change. Cases in Nicaragua and the DR Congo	Josep F Maria & Josep M Lozano
The State of Corporate Citizenship Practice 2008	Prof. Bradley Googins
Mainstreaming strategic philanthropy: An analysis of the management of social initiatives on large Spanish companies	Lourdes Urriolagotia, Alfred Vernis & Ignasi Carreras

Track 2 - Leadership, Change and Spirituality	Chaired by Prof. Kim Turnbull James
Operationalising the Common Good in Business through Leadership and Spirituality	Dr. Mike Thompson
Organisational Leader or part of a wider change movement? How change agents see themselves	Penny Walker
A typology for corporate responsibility: profitable and sustainable	Liz Varga
Ethics, Spirituality and Self Leadership Perspective	Cecile Rozuel & Prof. Nada Kakabadse
Developing Transcending leaders for sustainability: bringing mindfulness to inner dialogue and stakeholder dialogue	Dr Stephen J Downing
Leading for Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Purpose	Issac Mostovicz, Prof. Nada Kakabadse & Prof. Andrew Kakabadse

Track 3 - Rhetoric, Relationships and Governance	Chaired by Ian Richardson & Ruth Sealy
Millennium Development Goals, Peace and Human Rights	Prof. Richard Ennals & Jude Smith Rachele
Leading the Sustainable Story: co-producing quests from contests, scams and downfalls	Prof. Stephen J Downing
Environmental Rhetoric in Finnish Business: Comparison of arguments in environmental statements and in environmental managers’ talk	Tiina Onkila
Corporate Social Responsibility and the triumph of voluntarism: the role of university business schools in the legitimization of collaborative ideology	Ian Richardson, Prof. Nada Kakabadse & Prof. Andrew Kakabadse
Ethical Behaviour- an exploration of business relationship in a global environment of CSR	Ali Quazi, Petra Bouvain, Raechel Johns
Ethical context of co-leadership	Boleslaw Rok
Changing the faces at the top for better governance: the value of female roles	Ruth Sealy & Dr. Val Singh
The influence of Chairmen and Chief Executives as gender diversity change agents in the boardroom	Dr Val Singh & Dale Nelson

Track 4 - Sustainable Demand Chain Management	Chaired by Dr Iain Davies
Is Sustainability inducing any real changes in purchasing strategies	Prof. Fabienne Fel
The Greening of Marketing Strategies and its Impacts on Business Performance	Sofia Lopez-Rodriguez
An exploration of the changing nature of corporations in an age of globalisation and branding	Loong Wong & Petra Bouvain
Corporate Environmental management and corporate social responsibility in forest industry: A review of literature	Marileena Koskela
Building Relationships with employees and customers through a focus on corporate responsibility	Kevin Money & Carola Hillenbrand
CSR Advertisements: the case of Aracruz Celulose	Francisca Farache & Keith Perks
Creating space for what needs to emerge- an account of facilitating change for CSR in an energy company.	Bente Van Alphen

Track 5 - Innovation & Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on CSR	Chaired by Dr Bassil Yaghi
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Aged Care Industry, Sustaining Innovation	Lois Hazelton & Prof. Murray Gillin
Contextual Issues in the adoption of low carbon technologies and the development of a zero carbon factory	Prof Peter Reason & Dr Gill Coleman
Harnessing Creativity and Innovation to Improve Responsibility	Dr Dean Bartlett
CSR and Branding: A balancing act between being good and looking good	Marjolijn Vencken
A knowledge based change management perspective on implementing CSR	Lutz Preuss
Questioning the corporate responsibility department alignment with the business model of the company	Tanguy Jacopin & Joan Fontrodona
CSR as organization development- Reconstructing IKEA’s identity	Mette Morsing & Anne Roepstorff

Track 6 - Impacts on and Impacts of Culture in CSR	Chaired by Dr Yury Blagov
Organisational culture and ethics- contextual and dynamic perspectives	Niels Kornum
The steel has been cooked here-and this is to remain- corporate culture and corporate responsibility for change management	Kathleen Kollewe
135 Minutes of COP: The case for embedding CSR into the DNA of the firm	Prof. Jorge A Arevalo
Employee Responses to Corporate Responsibility Programs: Drivers or Inhibitors of Positive Change?	Lindsay McShane
Embedding human rights in business organisation: from compliance to organizational integrity and due diligence approach	Marco Fasciglione & Assunta Martone
How committed individuals are creating change for sustainability from the bottom up in the organisation: A look at theory, cases and the conditions for supporting emergent bottom –up change alongside the formal plans	Lara Toensmann
How CSR, Sustainability and organizational change are managed across cultures?	Anna Towler

Track 7 - Implementing Organisational Change to CSR	Chaired by Kenneth Amaeshi
Conceptualising Corporate Strategic Sustainability: Routes to suitable transformational Change	Dr Helen Borland
EDF Energy Plc, implementing and embedding corporate sustainability EDF Energy’s Journey towards sustainable future	David Ferguson & Mark Bromley (EDF Energy)
Putting Drivers and Barriers of Corporate Social Responsibility into Context	Thomas Laudal
The development of Governance Structures for Corporate Responsibility	Heiko Spitzeck, Ashok Krishnan & Prof. David Grayson
Reframing Success, Hidden Drivers behind Strategic Sustainable Development	Katherine Raleigh & Heather Worosz
Integrating strategic commitment and stakeholder responsiveness in a dynamic framework or CSR change	Itziar Castello & Josep Maria Lozano
Embedding corporate responsibility through effective organisational structures	Luis Perera, Daniela Winicki, Patricia Awad

Track 8 - SME and Responsible Business Practices	Chaired by Prof. Mario Molteni
Making CSR a reality for small and medium enterprises: the Mexican case	Jorge Reyes-Iturbide
Responsible procurement: Do Italian companies care about social and environmental issues in supplier relationships	Prof. Mario Molteni & Laura Maria Ferri
Responsible Business: social investment in the small and medium business sector. The case of South Africa	Ceri Oliver-Evans & Susan Wilkinson-Maposa
Strategies for overcoming the market access challenge for small scale farmers in Brazil: a literature review prior to an in depth study	Shayna Harris, Lilian Outtes Wanderley, & Francisca Farache.
An ethical approach to Valencian retail trade	Carmen Marti & Roberto Ballester
Starting and inch and going a mile- The dynamics of CSR in small and medium enterprises in Brittany	Dr Sarah Hudson & Dr Julia Roloff
Eco-Design and Organisational Factors: An empirical study	Corinne Berneman, Marie-France Vernier, & Samuel Mayer

Track 9 - Stakeholder & Network Utilisation	Chaired by Prof. Anne Ellerup
From Share of Voice to Share of Care. Case examples and reflections on the role of leadership in the ongoing transformation of the pharmaceutical industry	Dr Olaf Zorzi
The impact of stakeholder collaboration in an organisational change? The case of CSR certification	Manal el Abboubi & Prof Annie Coirnet
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability: Co creating Change with local networks	Prof. Anne Ellerup Nielsen & Prof. Christa Thomsen
Stakeholder analysis and sustainability: The Brazilian case of a forestry based company	Mariana Galvao Lyra, Ricardo Correa Gomes, & Laerico Antonio Jacovine
Organisational Change in cross sector social partnerships	Dr. Maria May Seitanidi
Forum for the future’s collaborative approach to organisational change	Ben Kellard, Stephanie Draper, David Bent, & Anna Birney

Track 10 - Organisational Capacity and Human Resource Management	Chaired by Prof. Shaun Tyson & Prof. Sebastein Point
Recovering from a merger crisis: employees as change agents	Prof. Rosa Chun & Prof. Gary Davies
Epson Training and the Challenge of Organisational Change	Simone Eijsink
How Business leaders and opinion leaders view CSR and sustainability	Dr Yves Fassin & Dr Annick Van Rossem
Bringing together Corporate Responsibility and Diversity: A case study	Deirdre Anderson & Judy Greevy
Corporate Social Responsibility and volunteerism: A longitudinal evaluation of the affect and benefits of an employee volunteer program	Samantha Yakal-Kremski
The Recruitment and Evaluation of Boards of Directors in China	Hong Yang, Professor Nada Kakabadse & Prof. Richard Sanders
Environmental disclosure of the big French Firms: Study of determinants	Amel Ben Rhouma

Track 11 - Leadership Development & Executive Education	Chaired by Dr David Denyer
A strategic change at business schools towards ethics, social responsibility and environmental sustainability education	Janette Martell & Angel Castineira
Executive Education for Leadership and Sustainability	Marella Caramazza & Caterina Carroli
Evading self- fulfilling prophecies: rebuilding the social dimensions of the MBA	Alison Kemper & Roger Martin
Critical-Reflection and Sensemaking in the context of embedding corporate responsibility	Sharon Jackson
Theory Building: Leadership beliefs and leadership practices for Corporate Responsibility	Alessia D’Amato
Moral Organisational Development- What, if anything, do corporations learn from NGO critique	Heiko Spitzeck
The Management Development Institute: A public private partnership	Michael Bzdak & Victor Tabbush

Track 12 - Learning to Lead, Stories of Change and Transition	Chaired by Mark Wade
Towards a stakeholder theory of competitive and corporate strategy	Vittorio Coda, Maurizio Zollo & Mario Minoja
Drawing upon the stories of stakeholders to inform effective leadership change.	Steve Downing, Kevin Money & Carolyn Hillenbrand
Reasons, rules and consciousness: transitioning to corporate sustainability	Mark Wade & Paul Gibbon
Developing Generative Change Leaders Across Sectors: A global Exploration of Integral Approaches.	Alain Gauthier & Walter Link
'New perspectives on corporate scandals: the role of the high, growth, strategy innovation, and stakeholder cohesion.	Mario Minoja & Pietro Mazzola
Fitting CSR into the MBA Curriculum.	Chris Marsden
Effective Management of CSR Performance through a Focus on the Key Drivers of Company Value	John Swannick & Nikos Avlonas
Building an integrity infrastructure in Heineken	Mark van Rijn

09:00	Parallel Sessions I
10:30	Coffee Break
	Launch of 2008 Special Issue of Corporate Governance Journal
11:00	Parallel Sessions II
12:45	Lunch / EABIS General Assembly

Afternoon Session

14:30	Plenary III	Business in Society, Executive Development and the Leadership of Organisational Change
	Key Question:	Given the urgency of defining new skills and the competencies to manage the internal transformation of the firm, how must learning departments, educational institutions and external training providers adapt their own content and methods to embed the core issues of CR and Sustainability?
	Speakers:	Kai Peters – CEO, Ashridge Business School
		Robin Blass – VP Global Learning, Unilever
		Michael Burkhardt – VP, HRM (Northern Europe), IBM
		Professor Kim Turnbull-James – Director, Centre for Executive Learning and Leadership, Cranfield School of Management
	Facilitator:	Stefan Stern - The Financial Times

16:00	Key Colloquium insights and take- aways
	Jane Nelson – Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Simon Pickard – Executive Director, EABIS

16.30	Reflections and Future Agendas Transfer to 2009 Colloquium host
	David Grayson- Colloquium Co-Chair Gilbert Lenssen – EABIS President

17:00	Conference close followed by farewell drinks

The EABIS PhD Conference is scheduled for Saturday, 13th September 2008
Hosted by Ashridge Business School