January 2026

Dear SBE members,

The SBE finished 2025 with one of its largest memberships ever in its history. Our first ever European conference was great, and it was wonderful to meet with our colleagues there closer to their own institutions.

The board has met twice since August, and this year the conference comes back to Philadelphia, which always draws a good crowd. We look forward to seeing you there. We have moved the entire conference up a day, so what used to be on Thursday is on Wednesday, etc, and Saturday night is our last night of the conference.  

The 2027 conference will be Seattle, and then Toronto in 2028.  

As always, I feel blessed to be able to engage with the amazing super-achievers who make up the board and the various volunteer committees. SBE is not a huge organization, but it is hugely important, and we are doing good work. Thanks to all of you who help make SBE what it is.  

Gratefully,
Andy Gustafson 

2026 Conference in Philadelphia

2026 Annual Meeting: July 29 – August 2, Philadelphia

We are looking forward to welcoming new and familiar faces to our next annual conference at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Philadelphia!

The conference is open to a variety of submissions – traditional papers, agora, panels, workshops, emerging scholars, and coffee with an author. 

If you cannot make it in-person, please do not let it stop you, as we will have online sessions available.  

The submission deadline is January 31, 2026
Call for reviewers and submissions
Submission website - Deadline is January 31, 2026!
Hotel information

Best wishes,
Rosemarie Monge (University of St. Thomas, MN)
2026 Program Chair
programchair@sbeonline.org

Support the 2026 SBE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

As we look ahead to our 2026 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (July 29–August 1), I am excited to share an opportunity to support our SBE’s mission in a meaningful way.

Many of you know that the Society for Business Ethics does not accept corporate sponsorship. This policy reflects our commitment to independence and integrity, but it also means we rely on academic centers, non-profit organizations, and individuals to help make our conferences as inclusive and impactful as possible.

Your sponsorship directly supports scholars from underrepresented regions who otherwise could not attend, provides travel assistance for doctoral students and early-career researchers, sustains our Doctoral Students’ Program (which offers mentorship, waived registration, and a dedicated dinner), and helps us bring distinguished keynote speakers to the conference.

If you or your institution can contribute, or if you know of foundations or academic centers that might be interested, please reach out to me at alzola@fordham.edu. Sponsors receive recognition on our website, social media, and in the printed conference program.

I hope you will consider how you might help us build a more global and inclusive scholarly community. Every contribution makes a difference.

- Miguel Alzola

SBE President 

FUTURE CONFERENCES

The Society for Business Ethics has traditionally held our conference just prior to the AOM conference.  Assuming that the SBE continues that tradition, our upcoming meetings will be at the following locations:

• Seattle, Washington (USA) • 2027
• Toronto, Ontario (Canada) • 2028

These locations are tentative and subject to change based on venue availability and partner schedules.

• Junior Faculty Fellowship in Ethics – Georgetown University: Main Campus: McDonough School of Business: Strategy
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy – Socially Engaged Philosophy – University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Politicization of Business Project – EM Normandie Business School (Paris Campus)

• Multispecies Organizing in the Web of Life: Ethico-Political Dynamics of Matters of Care in Ecologies-in-Place - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Steffen Böhm, Sophia Hagolani-Albov, Linda Annala Tesfaye
• “Public Hospitals in Critical Condition”: Death and Love as Embodied Care and Political Mobilization - Ludivine Perray-Redslob, Nathalie Clavijo, Agathe Morinière
• Whose Grave’s This, Sir? An Ethico-Political Critique of Organized Resting Places - Daniela Pianezzi, Melissa Tyler
• Getting Away with Murder: Legitimizing Unethical Organization Practices via Memes - Fernando Vianna, Rafael Alcadipani, Marcos Barros, Gustavo Matarazzo
• Zones of Slow Death? Social Descent, Epistemic Injustice and Temporality - Natalia Slutskaya, Tim Newton, Jessica Horne, Ramaswami Mahalingam, Ruxandra Monica Luca
• Organized Carelessness: De-ethicizing the Organization of Death - Matthias Wenzel

• Animals and Business Ethics: Reimagining Multispecies Co-existence in Business and Society accepting submissions: 1 July 2026 to 31 August 2026

• Call for Papers: Business Ethics in the 6ix. The tenth edition of Business Ethics in the 6ix will take place May 21-23, 2026 at the Ted Rogers School of Management in downtown Toronto. The workshop will feature keynotes by Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen) and Joseph Heath (University of Toronto).
• Special Issue CFP (Business and Society Review): AI Literacy for Business Education—Human-Centered AI + Virtue Ethics - soliciting essays that show how business schools can teach students to use AI well—ethically, responsibly, and in ways that promote human flourishing—across domains like finance, HR, marketing, governance, operations, and communications. 
• Call for Papers: Social Change and the Role of Advertising Regulation: New Challenges and Opportunities – Journal of Advertising Manuscripts are currently being solicited for a special issue of the Journal of Advertising (JA) dedicated to Social Change and the Role of Advertising Regulation: New Challenges and Opportunities.

Online Paper Discussion with Dr. Rim Bitar

• R:ETRO Seminar Series - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford
  The R:ETRO seminar series, hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, will be back soon with another very exciting line up. Find seminar dates and learn more here.
• The 21st Annual Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop, hosted by the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, will take place from May 10th to May 12th, 2026.