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8th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) Conference 2018

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ABEN Call for Papers 2018“Ethics and Sustainability in the Age of Disruption”

 Call for papers deadline extended to 30 September 2018

Massey University, Auckland 9 – 11 December 2018

Doctoral workshop: 9th December 2018

 Submissions are now invited for the 8th Annual ABEN Conference on Business Ethics, to be hosted by Massey University at their Albany campus in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference will begin on the afternoon of 9 December 2018 with a Doctoral Workshop, followed by a Welcome Reception for all participants. Sessions for the delivery of papers at the 8th Annual ABEN Conference will be held on 10 and 11 December 2018.

The theme for this year’s conference is Ethics and Sustainability in the Age of Disruption. A range of technological and organisational changes in recent years have significantly disrupted, and continue to disrupt existing ways of doing business around the world. While it could be argued that not all new technologies and innovations are disruptive, they can be beneficial in the long term and require creativity, initiative and objectivity. We consider the implications that such disruption has on efforts to promote ethics and sustainability within the business sphere, as well as how the imperatives of ethics and sustainability can themselves disrupt existing business practices.

We also welcome papers on broader topics, whether theoretical or empirical, including (but not limited to):

 

  • Maori and Indigenous ethics
  • Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and irresponsibility
  • Artificial intelligence, disruptive technology and ethics
  • Managerial ethics
  • Critical business ethics
  • Business ethics education
  • Ethics in human resource management
  • Ethics of care (vs. ethics of justice)
  • Leadership and ethics
  • Marketing ethics
  • Religiosity, spirituality, and ethnicity
  • Accounting ethics
  • Business law and ethics
  • Ethics in finance
  • Complexity and complex adaptive systems
  • Managing wicked problems
  • Emergence vs. evolution
  • Knowledge-based organising

 

If you wish to make a submission for presentation at the ABEN Conference, please submit a 500-word abstract by 30 September 2018. Full papers may also be submitted, to be peer reviewed if required by your funding institution.

Papers and abstracts can be submitted by email to Associate Professor Gabriel Eweje at g.eweje@massey.ac.nz.

Early Bird Registration – on or before 12 November 2018

It is essential for all participants including delegates, speakers and guests to register online with payment of the applicable registration fee.

Registration Entitlements

  • Doctoral Workshop, Massey University, 9 December
  • Welcome Reception, 9 December
  • ABEN Conference, Massey University, 10 & 11 December
  • Conference Dinner, 10 December

 Registration Fee

Full Registration, before 12 November – NZ$390

Full Registration, after 12 November – NZ$480

Student Registration, before 12 November – NZ$270

Student Registration, after 12 November – NZ$360

 Click here to register

 Key Dates

Call for Papers – Now Open
Registration – Now Open
Deadline for Submission of Papers – 30 September, 2018
Notification of Accepted Papers – 31 October, 2018
Early Bird Registration Closes – 12 November, 2018
Deadline for Presenters to Register – 12 November, 2018

 Jan Schapper Scholarship in Critical Business Ethics

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 and comprises a bursary and the waiving of the ABEN conference registration fee. The Scholarship was founded in 2015 to encourage critical approaches to business ethics at the ABEN annual meeting. If you would like to be considered for the scholarship, please indicate this when registering for the ABEN conference; eligible participants will be invited to submit a full paper by 31 October 2018. A decision on the award will be made in November.

Jan Schapper was one of the founders of ABEN and worked at Monash’s Department of Management for 15 years before returning to La Trobe in 2010. 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. She was especially keen that as a scholarly community we pay attention to questions of critical pedagogy, teaching and learning, and to ensuring 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. Further information is available at https://aben.org.au/jan-schapper-scholarships/.

 Venues

8th Annual ABEN Conference

Date        Monday 10 & Tuesday 11 December, 2018

Where     Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland

Time        9.00am- 5.00pm Monday / 8.00am – 5.00pm Tuesday

Doctoral Workshop

Date        Sunday 9 December 2018

Where     Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland

Time        1:00 – 4.30pm 

 Welcome Reception 

Date        Sunday 9 December 2018

Where     Massey Business School, Flexi Space (MBS2.15)

Time        5.30pm

Conference Dinner

Date        Monday 10 December 2018

Where     Portofino Devonport, 26 Victoria Rd, Devonport, Auckland 0624

Time        6:00pm (Transportation will be provided from the conference venue)

 (NB: if you wish to bring guests to the dinner, please inform conference organiser Gabriel Eweje (G.Eweje@massey.ac.nz) to organize)       

 Contact Us

For all enquiries regarding registration or submission of papers, please contact Associate Professor Gabriel Eweje (G.Eweje@massey.ac.nz).

On behalf of the ABEN 2018 Conference Organising Committee:

Associate Professor Gabriel Eweje (Massey University)

Dr Andrew West (Queensland University of Technology)

Dr Heather Stewart (Griffith University)

Dr Julia Benkert (Swinburne University)