The conference on Organisational Responsibility “Rethinking Responsibility – Agents and Structures” took place in person on December 6 and 7, 2018, at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Program details
Thursday, December 6, 2018
02:00 pm Conference opening
02:15 pm Session 1. DEFINING AND PRACTISING RESPONSIBILITY
02:15 pm Business, society and subalterns: Revisiting political CSR from a Creolized perspective (N Delannon, Université Laval)
02:45 pm Responsabilité en affaires: Approche juridico-managériale par la RSE (N Seddiki-El Houdaigui, Université ABDELMALEK ESSAADI)
03:15 pm Coalitional CSR Strategies: A Field-Level Perspective on Private Regulatory Competition (J C Marques, University of Ottawa)
04:15 pm Welcome drinks
Friday, December 7, 2018
8:30 am Session 2. SUSTAINABILITY DISCLOSURES AND PRACTICES
8:30 am Holding businesses accountable for climate change: using reported emissions to determine sectoral budgets and pathways in line with global climate goals (M Hadziosmanovic, Concordia University)
9:00 am Detecting Carbon Emission Disclosure Management (T Kaspereit, University of Luxembourg)
9:30 am The Impact of Institutional Environment on Sustainability Disclosure in Southeast Asia (M Tran, University of Huddersfield)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Session 3. TECHNOLOGY, INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS
10:30 am AI Democratization and Organization Technology Outlook (G Whelan, McGill University)
11:00 am Bioethics, Complementarity, and Corporate Criminal Liability (R Long, Thomas Jefferson University)
11:30 am Rogue Opposition: Against Raikka’s Genuine Opposition Thesis (J Watkins-Quesada, Oklahoma State University)
12:00 pm Break
01:30 pm Session 4. FINANCING AND RESPONSIBILITY
01:30 pm Does the Threat of Takeover Discipline Managers? New Evidence from the Foreign Investment and National Security Act (D Godsell, University of Illinois)
02:00 pm The real effects of financing on corporate social responsibilities: Evidence from covenant violations (L He, Concordia University)
02:30 pm Succumbing to the pressure? What motivates firms to provide CSR performance-based incentives? (L Keddie, Concordia University)
03:00 pm Break
03:30 pm Session 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT, WORKERS, MANAGERS
03:30 pm Performativity and Counterperformativity of Social Measures. A Study of the Uses of Psychosocial Risks Indicators (S Sponem, Université de Montréal)
04:00 pm Accountability In Labor Platforms (J McCartney, Michigan State University)
04:30 pm Which Moral Responsibilities Carry over from Principals to Agents? A Reflection through Shareholder Theory (S Mejia, Fordham University)
05:00 pm Closing remarks
Note: All times are in local times, Montreal, Canada
The conference. This two-day international conference brought together researchers from Canada, the US, Europe and Africa who study business, ethics, geography, labour, law, sociology and philosophy. Our aim was to rethink responsibility in business. What does responsibility in business mean today? How can we engage with responsibility to better prepare for the challenges of tomorrow, such as climate change, the digital age and widening inequalities? This conference sought to encourage and outline answers to these and other questions by promoting conversations that consider agents, structures in which agents are embedded, and the ways in which agents and structures are linked.
There was no registration fee for the conference.
Contact. For any questions about the conference, please contact the conference team at ResponsibilityJMSB@gmail.com
More about the John Molson School of Business at: www.concordia.ca/jmsb
More about Concordia University at: www.concordia.ca
The conference was generously supported by the RBC Professorship in Responsible Organizations, the Luc Beauregard Centre of Excellence in Communications Research, the Lawrence Bloomberg Research Chair, and the Concordia Accounting Research Seminar.
Last updated: Jun 8, 2022.
