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Matej Potokar,
General Manager, Microsoft Services CEE,

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2016

Aug

2016

3rd International Conference on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance: Sustainable Management as a New Business Paradigm

Location:

Cologne, Germany

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The conference has been designed to understand and deal with the unprecedented impacts of CSR on the working population, society and the environment. It will facilitate the elaboration of various frameworks with the goal of developing evolutionary CSR practices. This is the 3rd CSR conference in the series, following a successful second conference at Nanjing University of Finance & Economics in 2015 on Building New Bridges between Business and Society. It will be an excellent platform to deliberate upon global themes of Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainability, ethics and governance in all their various dimensions.

Businesses play an important role in society, impact communities, regions as well as individuals and the environment. The processes and consequences of globalization and the economic crisis, have repositioned business approaches and growth towards more inclusive, competitive, sustainable, resource and energy efficient and environment friendly management. Business management models should adequately address the key objectives of inclusive and sustainable management, integrating economic, social, and environmental elements and considering the inter-linkages and collective impact in all three dimensions. There is an urgent need to formulate sustainable management frameworks addressing interactions and dependencies as well as tradeoffs in various focus areas. The challenge that these adjustments present, calls for the alignment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with business strategy to create a truly sustainable approach.

Objectives

The 3rd CSR conference will showcase current CSR models and practices, as well as the next generation of issues that business leaders and society will face. The conference will gather high level government officials and representatives, business leaders, experts from the business community, civil society, non-profit and community based organizations, academic institutions, and other stakeholders. It provides a platform for the sharing of expectations, aspirations and responsibilities. We want to bring together representatives from various parts of the globe to share their experiences, challenges and opportunities.

Presentations, workshops and dialogue sessions will highlight state of the art topics and how issues are being addressed around the world. In addition, the conference aims to develop new frameworks, tools and techniques essential for the integration of socially responsible management in business operations, in an effort to achieve sustainability at all levels of business management.