FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Dear SBE members,
The 2024 Chicago conference went very well, and it was our largest in recent years. The new initiatives to provide DEI scholarships and the board's decision to increase the emerging scholars program brought many new faces to the conference. We have already been planning for the conference in Copenhagen next July. We will be putting info for hotel booking on the website in October, so please watch for that. The conference will be held at CBS (Copenhagen Business School) and the primary hotel where we are reserving rooms is the Scandic Falkoner, which is just a few blocks from the hotel. Please note that since our conference is two weeks earlier and also international, we will have an earlier deadline for paper submissions, an earlier paper acceptance notification, and an earlier confirmation from participants. I am grateful to have the privilege of working with such a fantastic board, and so many faithful volunteers who make the conference and organization work so very well. Thanks to everyone for making SBE what it is!
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Andrew Gustafson, Ph.D. (phil.)
Executive Director of the Society for Business Ethics
Heider College of Business, Creighton University
executivedirector@sbeonline.org
andrewgustafson@creighton.edu
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2025 Annual Meeting: July 24-27, Copenhagen
NOTE FROM THE 2025 CONFERENCE CHAIR
Dear Colleagues,
As I step into the role of conference chair for our upcoming annual meeting, I am filled with excitement for the innovative program we will craft.
Our goal is to create an event that is not only intellectually stimulating but also pushes the boundaries of business ethics.
This year brings several changes to our conference format:
- For the first time in our history, we will convene outside of North America. Join us in the beautiful and culturally rich city of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- We are moving from our traditional hotel setting to the picturesque campus of Copenhagen Business School, offering a fresher academic experience.
- The conference will take place July 24-27, two weeks earlier than our usual mid-August date.
- To accommodate this change, our submission deadline has been moved up to January 31.
- We are actively seeking dedicated reviewers to help shape our program and ensure timely decisions, aiming to announce the full program by early March.
Our call for papers reflecting these changes will be released shortly, inviting scholarly contributions across a wide range of topics in business ethics.
The Society for Business Ethics remains the premier forum for normative and empirical research in business ethics and related fields. Building on the success of last year's conference, we anticipate another year of groundbreaking discussions and insights that will shape the future of our discipline.
We look forward to your participation in what promises to be an enriching and memorable event in Copenhagen.
Stay tuned for more details!
Miguel Alzola (Fordham University, NYC)
Your Conference Chair
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BUSINESS ETHICS COMPETITION
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International Business Ethics Case Competition: April 9–11, 2025
"The 2025 International Business Ethics Case Competition (IBECC) will be held from April 9 to 11. The location has yet to be finalized. Registration will open in January. For information and updates, see ibecc.net."
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BUSINESS ETHICS QUARTERLY
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Business Ethics Quarterly, published by Cambridge University Press, is the official journal of the Society for Business Ethics.
Special Issue: Normativity in Business Ethics and Beyond
Guest Editors
N. Craig Smith, INSEAD, France
Thomas Donaldson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sareh Pouryousefi, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Markus Scholz, TU Dresden, Germany
Laura J. Spence, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Overview
The purpose of this special issue is to address fundamental questions about a possible deficit of normativity in management research, practice, and education—especially as it relates to the field of business ethics and its neighboring disciplines, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. Questions regarding the role of normativity are familiar in many respects and have been the subject of long-standing debates in BEQ (e.g., with respect to the “separation thesis”). These questions are of renewed importance, if not urgency, against the backdrop of 1) the so-called grand challenges (George et al. Reference George, Howard-Grenville, Joshi and Tihanyi2016) and 2) the meteoric rise of dominantly descriptively and functionally oriented CSR and sustainability research and teaching.
By “normativity” in this context, we refer to explicit and implicit values-driven decision-making that is action guiding (i.e., prescriptive). The domain of the normative covers all forms of business decision-making, such as addressing systemic injustice, grand societal challenges, organizational narratives, institutional arrangements, corporate purposes, economic optimization norms, broader systemic design, and the decisions of individual managers. We seek different perspectives on the possible deficit of normativity in business, including alternative views suggesting that the problem is overstated or concern is misplaced.
Submission Window
September 1–October 31, 2024
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- Call for Papers – Firms and Moral Repair Workshop at IESE Business School – Due September 30, 2024
- The submission deadline for extended abstracts to the Firms and Moral Repair Workshop at IESE Business School is 30 September 2024. View full details here.
- Call for Papers – Redesigning Business for the Common Good – Due October 1, 2024
- "After a wonderful IABS meeting in Annapolis last month, we are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 36th IABS Annual Conference, to be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from April 3-6, 2025, hosted by the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University." View the full note here or the website here.
- Call for Papers – Genealogies of Corporate Morality: Approaching Business Ethics through Intellectual History – Workshop at St. Andrews Business School – Due November 1, 2024
- The submission deadline for abstracts to Genealogies of Corporate Morality: Approaching Business Ethics through Intellectual History is 1 November 2024. Draft papers are due 1 June 2025. View the full call for submissions here. Contact Sam Mansell, Cailean Gallagher, or Mathias Hein Jessen with inquiries.
- Call for Papers – Special Issue: “The AI Revolution: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Management” – Due January 30, 2025
- The submission deadline to Special Issue: “The AI Revolution: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Management” is 30 January 2025. Find full details in the call for papers here or on their website.
- Call for Papers – Special Issue of Journal of Business Ethics – Due May 1, 2025
- The submission deadline for the Journal of Business Ethics Special Issue on Polycrisis and Precarity: Understanding the Lived Experience of Workers is 1 May 2025. Please mark your calendars and see the full call for submissions here: https://link.springer.com/collections/hedibbgiab – Be sure to click on "show all". Feel free to contact Helet Botha with any inquiries: hbotha@umich.edu
- Call for Papers – Industrial Marketing Management: Unethical, Controversial, and Illegal Corporate Practices in the Business-to-Business Market – Due August 1, 2025
- The submission deadline for Industrial Marketing Management: Unethical, Controversial, and Illegal Corporate Practices in the Business-to-Business Market is 1 August 2025. Find full details here.
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"The University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business is proud to announce the appointment of... Dr. Christopher Wong Michaelson to an endowed chair, reflecting the college’s ongoing commitment to academic excellence, ethical leadership, and innovation." See the full announcement here.
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