3rd. International Summer Academy: "Sustainable Corporate Governance"
Summer Academy
Overview
Organised by:
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW), Berlin
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin
Supported by:
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bonn
Ecological Economy Foundation (SÖW), Hanover
"Corporate Governance" so far predominantly refers to the responsibilities of the management towards their shareholders. This interpretation seems to be too narrow, not only in the light of the various corporate scandals of the past years, but also against the background of growing corporate power and scope, which particularly transnational corporations (TNCs) have gained in the course of liberalisation and globalisation. At the same time state autonomy and power are regarded as being declining, and governance deficits concerning environmental protection and sustainability can be witnessed. As a consequence, corporations are increasingly requested to take societal responsibility, in order to maintain their "licence to operate" and their societal legitimisation.
At the summer academy, international experts discussed instruments of governance systems for sustainability including corporate self control, control by civil society, and background control by the state, particularly addressing the interfaces between them.
Programme
Monday 27th
10.00 a.m.
Registration, Coffee
11.00 a.m.
Welcome
THOMAS KORBUN (IOeW)
JÜRGEN STETTEN (FES)
11.15 a.m.
KATHRIN ANKELE
"Introduction to the Summer Academy: What is the Agenda for Sustainable Corporate Governance?"
12.00 a.m.
N.N.
"Is there a Leading Role of the Industry regarding Sustainable Development?"
12.30 a.m.
Lunch
2.00 p.m.
TOM JONES
"Voluntary Approaches and OECD-Guidelines on Multinational Corporations"
2.45 p.m.
Parallel Workshops
WS 1: Corporate Initiatives of Societal Responsibility in Home and Host Countries
Dr MARIO GÓMEZ JIMÉNEZ
"Corporate Social Responsibility in Colombia"
EVITA SCHMIEG
"Corporate Social Responsibility - a new Agenda for Development Cooperation"
JESSICA BANFIELD
"Supporting Peace in Host Societies: the Role of Business in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding"
WS 2: Financial Market as a Driver towards Sustainability
INGEBORG SCHUMACHER
"Practical Contributions to Sustainability in Financial Institutions like UBS"
Prof. BERT SCHOLTENS
"Governing Green Finance"
KIREIN FRANCK
"Developing the European Responsible Consumer Fund"
4.15 p.m.
Coffee Break
4.45 p.m.
Parallel Workshops
WS 3: Evaluating the Social and Ecological Performance of Corporations
THOMAS LOEW
"Ranking of Sustainability Reports as an Indicator for Corporate Performance?"
Dr RAINE ISAKSSON
"A System Model for the Triple Bottom Line - Highlighting the Economic Dimension"
JULIA HERTIN
"Sustainability Benchmarking as an Instrument for CSR Governance?"
WS 4: (New) Partnerships between Corporations and Civil Society
ROB MAESSEN
"Circles of Stakeholders: Exploring different Relationships between Corporations and Civil Society"
Dr BERNHARD BAUSKE
"WWF Germany and Business Cooperations"
UWE KOLLING, THOMAS WEIS
"Corporate Responsibility and Community Work in Textile Manufacturing"
6.30 p.m.
End of Conference Day
7.00 p.m.
Dinner
Tuesday 28th
9.00 a.m.
Dr NOHA GABER
"Egyptian Experience of Promoting Corporate Environmental Compliance "
9.25 a.m.
CORNELIA HEYDENREICH
Effectivness of Government Measures and Role of NGOs
Dr HORST MINTE
Comment and own Experience
10.15 a.m.
Discussion
10.45 a.m.
Coffee Break
11.15 a.m.
Session
Impacts of Cultural Differences
BARBARA HEMKES
"King II and the South African Way towards Sustainable Corporate Governance"
MARTINA WEGNER
"Building a Global Structure for Corporate Sustainability: The Allianz Case"
12.45 a.m.
Lunch
2.15 p.m.
Parallel Workshops
WS 5: Universal Ecological and Social Standards Worldwide?
ANDREAS BOTSCH
Dr MARIANNE BEISHEIM / Dr ANDREA LIESE
"How to make Universal Standards work: More Questions than Answers?"
WS 6: Instruments for Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue
JAMES ROSE
"The Death of the Organisation - Why Civil/Corporate Relationships need Creative Destruction"
Dr FRANK EBINGER
"NGOs as Effective Control Mechanisms of Society? Challenges out of the View of the Resource Mobilization Approach"
ALEXANDER NICK
"Levels of Stakeholder Dialogue"
3.45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4.30 p.m.
Guided Tour to Potsdam
7.00 p.m.
Dinner
Wednesday 29th
9.00 a.m.
Session: Perspectives on Integrated Governance Mechanisms I
Prof. JEREMY MOON
"The Governance of CSR: Developments in UK Business-Society Relations"
EVA WILLMANN DE DONLEA
"The Interface between Sustainable Corporate Governance and the Investment Industry"
10.15 a.m.
Coffee Break
10.45 a.m.
Session
Perspectives on Integrated Governance Mechanisms II
Dr HOLGER BRACKEMANN
"Investigating Aspects of Corporate Responsibility as a Supplement to Product Tests - the Approach taken by Stiftung Warentest"
Dr JENS CLAUSEN
"Civil Society´s Influence on Sustainable Markets - an entrepreneurial Approach"
12.00 a.m.
Discussion
Chair: WERNER ECKERT
Requirements of Sustainable Corporate Governance
- Corporations: Culture, Values, Instruments, Learning, i.a.
- Civil Society, NGOs: Resources, Capacity, Information, Legitimacy, i.a.
- State: Instruments, Vision, i.a.
- Science: Role, Resources, i.a.
1.00 p.m.
Lunch
2.30 p.m.
Prof. MYUNG-RAE CHO
"Exploring a Sustainable Society: A Synopsis "
3.15 p.m.
Panel Discussion: What did we learn about Sustainable Corporate Governance in the Course of the Summer Academy? What is the Joint Understanding?
4.00 p.m.
End of the Summer Academy
Speakers and results
THOMAS KORBUN
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW), Berlin (D)
JÜRGEN STETTEN
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Berlin (D)
KATHRIN ANKELE
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW), Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: What is the Agenda for Sustainable Corporate Governance?
TOM JONES
OECD, Environment Directorate, Paris (F)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Voluntary Approaches and OECD-Guidelines on Multinational Corporations
MARIO GÓMEZ JIMÉNEZ
Fundación Restrepo Barco, Bogotá (CO)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Corporate Social Responsibility in Colombia
EVITA SCHMIEG
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Corporate Social Responsibility – a new Agenda for Development Cooperation
JESSICA BANFIELD
International Alert, London (UK)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Supporting Peace in Host Societies: The Role of Business in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
INGEBORG SCHUMACHER
UBS AG, Basel (CH)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Practical Contributions to Sustainability in Financial Institutions like UBS
Prof. BERT SCHOLTENS
Department of Finance, University of Groeningen (NL)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Governing Green Finance
KIREIN FRANCK
Institut für Markt-Umwelt-Gesellschaft e.V. (imug), Hanover (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Developing the European Responsible Consumer Fund
THOMAS LOEW
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW), Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation:Ranking of Sustainability Reports as an Indicator for Corporate Performance?
Dr RAINE ISAKSSON
Gotland University, Visby (SE)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: A System Model for the Triple Bottom Line – Highlighting the Economic Dimension
JULIA HERTIN
Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton (UK)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Sustainability Benchmarking as an Instrument for CSR Governance?
ROB MAESSEN
Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development, Tilburg University (NL)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Circles of Stakeholders: Exploring different Relationships between Corporations and Civil Society
Dr BERNHARD BAUSKE
WWF Deutschland, Frankfurt/M. (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: WWF Germany and Business Cooperations Teil 1 , Teil 2
UWE KOLLING and THOMAS WEIS
Switcher, Le Mont/Lausanne (CH)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Corporate Responsibility and Community Work in Textile Manufacturing
Dr NOHA GABER
Ecoconserve, Cairo (ET)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Egyptian Experience of Promoting Corporate Environmental Compliance
CORNELIA HEYDENREICH
Germanwatch, Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Comment and own Experience
Dr HORST MINTE
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg (D)
Presentation: Comment and own Experience
BARBARA HEMKES
Clausthaler Umwelttechnik-Institut GmbH, Clausthal Zellerfeld (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: King II and the South African Way towards Sustainable Corporate Governance
MARTINA WEGNER
Center for Corporate Citizenship, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Building a Global Structure for Corporate Sustainability: The Allianz Case
ANDREAS BOTSCH
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Dr. MARIANNE BEISHEIM and Dr. ANDREA LIESE
Institute for Political Science, Free University Berlin; Deutscher Bundestag, MdB-Büro Dr E. U. von Weizsäcker, Berlin (D) / Institute for Political Science, Free University Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: How to make Universal Standards work: More Questions than Answers?
JAMES ROSE
Asia-Pacific Ethical Corporation, Sydney (AU)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: The Death of the Organisation – Why Civil/Corporate Relationships need Creative Destruction
Dr. FRANK EBINGER
Institute of Forestry Economics, University of Freiburg (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: NGOs as Effective Control Mechanisms of Society? Challenges out of the View of the Resource Mobilization Approach
ALEXANDER NICK
Institute for Organisational Communication (IFOK), Bensheim (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation:Levels of Stakeholder Dialogue
Prof. JEREMY MOON
International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), University of Nottingham (UK)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: The Governance of CSR: Developments in UK Business-Society Relations
EVA WILLMANN DE DONLEA
Conscious Investors Pty Ltd, Sydney (AU)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: The Interface between Sustainable Corporate Governance and the Investment Industry
Dr HOLGER BRACKEMANN
Stiftung Warentest, Berlin (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Investigating Aspects of Corporate Responsibility as a Supplement to Product Tests – the Approach taken by STIFTUNG WARENTEST
Dr JENS CLAUSEN
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW), Hanover (D)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Civil Society´s Influence on Sustainable Markets – an entrepreneurial Approach
WERNER ECKERT
SWR-Fachredaktion "Umwelt und Ernährung", Mainz (D)
Prof. MYUNG-RAE CHO
School of Political Economics, Dankook University (ROK)
Curriculum Vitae and Abstract
Presentation: Exploring a Sustainable Society
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