International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research seeks
papers for a special issue on "Responsible Entrepreneurship for
Sustainable Development (RESD) ." Guest Editors are Chris Seow, Senior
Lecturer in Quality, University of East London, Business School, United
Kingdom;
and Nigel Roome, Daniel Janssen Chair of Corporate Social
Responsibility, Solvay Business School, Free University of Brussels,
Belgium, and Chair of Sustainable Enterprise and Transformation, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Prospective authors should e-mail
their article to the Guest Editor Chris Seow,
seow@resd.org by 14 February
2007.
Recently, there has been a noticeable growth in the adoption of the notion
of environmental responsibility within the global business community.
Environmental responsibility can be defined as actions that seek to limit,
ameliorate, or prevent damage to the existing natural environment that
arise from a company's activities. It includes efforts to improve the
quality or quantity of environmental resources and processes. This is now
often seen as part of the wider practice of corporate social
responsibility and as a form of innovation. Entrepreneurship represents
one of the most important driving forces for innovation, to increase
market efficiencies, respond to changes and opportunities in the context
of business or to lead with new technological, social and institutional
processes, such as new business models. Responsible entrepreneurship
therefore plays a major role in improving the efficiency of resource use,
reducing risks and hazards, minimising waste, safeguarding environmental
qualities and connecting environmental and business goals. Responsible
entrepreneurship provides the ground to ensure the economic success of an
enterprise by the inclusion of environmental and associated social
considerations into an organisation's strategic and operational
activities. It means satisfying present and future customer demands,
whilst also managing the expectations of a diverse set of other
stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, and the community around which
a company operates. It implies a positive contribution to societies'
environmental context by managing an enterprises' environmental impacts.
Under some circumstances it can bring direct benefits to business through
resource efficiencies or as a basis for innovation that secures long-term
competitiveness.
Despite the rhetoric, Responsible Entrepreneurship for Sustainable
Development is at best at an exploratory stage, as it requires new
knowledge or departures from existing skills and their integration with
established business models, processes and routines. At the extreme it
involves the reconfiguration of established business thinking. This call
for papers seeks to highlight issues and practices surrounding how
organisations practice responsible entrepreneurship for sustainable
development. Papers that are conceptual or empirical, and case-study-based
or industry-wide-based are welcome. Contributed papers may deal with, but
are not limited to:
� Cleaner Production.
� Corporate Citizenship.
� Environmental Stakeholder Policy.
� Humanity and Enterprise.
� Managing Strategic Alliances and Outsourcing for Corporate
Sustainability.
� Measurement Systems and Performance Frameworks for Sustainability.
� Responsible Enterprise Development.
� Stakeholder Outreach.
� Strategic Frameworks for Operationalising Sustainability.
� Tools and Techniques to Develop Product and Process Stewardship.
This call for papers invites the submission of original manuscripts.
Authors should not submit previously published papers, or those under
consideration for publication elsewhere. The call for papers employs a
double blind peer review process. Articles for this call are expected to
be �academic� in terms of rigour, but �managerial� in terms of readability
and content. Papers are therefore invited from both research and practice.
Prospective authors should e-mail their article to the Guest Editor Chris
Seow,
seow@resd.org by 14 February 2007. All manuscripts submitted by the
submission deadline will be reviewed by the Guest Editors. Authors will be
notified of the initial short list by 14 April 2007. Full papers should be
4000-7000 words in length although shorter papers, particularly from
practitioner authors, will be considered. This call for papers adheres to
the author guidelines as stipulated in the International Journal of
Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (IJEBR) , where the special issue
will be published. Preliminary notification of acceptance will be by 31
August 2007. The Guest Editors in consultation with the Editor of IJEBR
will make all final decisions as to the suitability of manuscripts for
this Special Issue. This Special Issue is scheduled to be published in
2008.
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