6th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) Symposium – REMINDER
BUSINESS ETHICS THEORY in PRACTICE
Griffith University, Southbank, Brisbane December 5 and 6, 2016.
Supported by Griffith University – Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and International Business and Asian Studies Department
Brisbane, December 5 and 6, 2016.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract and Full Paper Submission Deadline: EXTENDED TO 31 AUGUST 2016!
Submissions are now being invited for the 6th annual ABEN Symposium on Business Ethics (www.aben.org.au). The conference will begin on the evening of 4 December with a meet and greet. Sessions for the delivery of papers will run on the 5th and 6th of December.
The ABEN conference brings academics, critics and practitioners together to discuss and debate the nature, intent, effects and futures of business ethics in Australasia and beyond. It is a key forum in the region for reflective, engaged and philosophical work on business ethics. The location for this year's conference is at Griffith University. The conference is linked with publication opportunities in business ethics and is very inclusive. We welcome submissions that explore business ethics from a range of theoretical, empirical and practical positions and perspectives.
This year, the theme is Business Ethics Theory in Practice. We are seeking to promote the link between theoretical developments in ethics and their application to a broad array of practical contexts. We thus invite papers that aim to articulate new approaches to moral judgments in business practice here and now, in globalized and diverse contexts. We also encourage the submission of papers that question, critique, support or encourage the role that businesses can or do play in making a genuine positive difference to sustainability and the reduction of human and social suffering.
The ABEN conference is taking place before the ANZAM Conference 2016, which is being held in Brisbane from 6 to 9 December (http://www.anzam.org/).
If you wish to make a submission for presentation at the ABEN Conference, please send a 500-word abstract, as an email attachment, to Heather Stewart at ABEN2016@griffith.edu.au by 31 August 2016. Full papers may also be submitted, to be peer reviewed, if required by your funding institution.
Registration for the conference is $A320 (registering before 30 September) and $A400 (registering after 30 September) for salaried persons; and $A220 (before 30 September) and $A300 (after 30 September) for those who are non-salaried. To register click on the following link: ABEN conference registration
If you wish to become an ABEN member, please visit www.aben.org.au or contact Rob Macklin (rob.macklin@utas.edu.au) or Cristina Neesham (cneesham@swin.edu.au).
Also, as in previous years, the Jan Schapper Scholarship in Critical Business Ethics is being offered for a PhD student, early career researcher or other worthy recipient. The Scholarship was founded in 2015 to encourage critical approaches to business ethics at the ABEN annual meeting.
Jan Schapper was one of the founders of ABEN. She was born in 1951 in rural Victoria, Australia. She studied her Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education at La Trobe University in Melbourne. After a career in teaching and trade unions, she joined Monash University as an academic in the mid-1990s, gaining her PhD in 2004. She worked at Monash's Department of Management for 15 years before returning to La Trobe in 2010. Jan retired in 2013. Deeply immersed in feminist, Marxist and psychoanalytic scholarship, Jan's research interests included higher education, critical approaches to business ethics and CSR, and workplace equality and diversity. Jan wanted to make a contribution, and to get to the things that mattered, in particular teaching and learning. She was especially keen that as a scholarly community we pay attention to questions of critical pedagogy, teaching and learning, and to ensure that we provide supportive and friendly environments in which future scholars can develop their work. Jan died surrounded by her family and friends on September 24, 2014. It is deeply fitting that this award is named in Jan's honour.
The Jan Schapper Scholarship in Critical Business Ethics comprises a bursary and the waiving of the ABEN conference registration fee. If you would like to be considered for the scholarship, please indicate this in writing on your abstract/paper submission for the ABEN conference. Participants whose abstracts/papers are eligible for the scholarship will be invited to submit a full paper by 16 September 2016. A decision on the awarding of the scholarship will be made in early October.
Kind regards
Heather Stewart
On behalf of the ABEN 2016 Conference Organising Committee:
Heather Stewart (Griffith University)
Rob Macklin (University of Tasmania)
Wes Hamilton-Jessop (University of Sydney)
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