Saturday, January 30, 2016

Call for contribution

Call for contributions
Business Perspectives on Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Deadline for Abstracts: 1st May, 2016

Editors:
                   Samuel O Idowu, London Metropolitan University, UK                                        Rene Schmidpeter, Cologne Business School, Germany
                  
Description
Since the Brundtland Report 1987 on “Our Common Future”, the United Nations in its drive to encourage and propagate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been involved in a number of CSR related activities. In the organisation’s attempt to combat global warming, climate change, human rights abuses, poverty etc the UN has championed many CSR focused events and activities worldwide. We are all too aware of several UN Climate Change Conferences, Paris 2015 being the latest, the UN Global Compact which has the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative, the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2000 – 2015 and now the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 which was agreed in 2015. The field of CSR is of increasing importance in all areas of our existence – in business, politics, academia and the civil society in general. Issues relating to CSR are discussed, researched and propagated in all economies around the globe. There is practically nowhere in the world today where issues relating to CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance are not debated, researched, encouraged, practiced and perceived as being desirable. In fact, it is a core part of corporate strategies of many companies in most economies.
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target the 5Ps (People, Planet, Prosperity (originally Profit), Peace and Partnership and encompass seventeen goals which are of importance to everyone in the world. They are all about CSR. What effects will the achievement of these goals have on corporate entities – small medium or large everywhere? How are businesses going to help the United Nations in meeting the 2030 target year of achievement of these goals? All good corporations are going to have to expand their strategies to embed many if not all these seventeen goals into their strategies. How are we going to measure whether or not the goals have been achieved? What effect will the SDGs have on Corporate Governance? A few of the 8 MDGs have also been included in the 17 SDGs, are we to assume that these were not achieved satisfactorily between 2000 and 2015? How will government of the 196 countries that make up our world going to assist in meeting these goals? These and many other relevant SD issues are what we expect contributors to this book to explore in their chapters.  
The intention of the book will be to add to knowledge by exploring issues relating to the new UN SDGs and perhaps the old MDGs if there are pertinent issues relating to the eight goals of the old MDGs. If there are issues relating to the new SDGs and different dimensions of CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance and how they will affect practitioners, scholars and stakeholders in general worldwide, contributors are encouraged to bring them into their proposed chapters.
Thus, these editors seek original contributions that explore different CSR aspects of the SDGs 2030.
Contributions
Contributors should be broadly familiar with various aspects of CSR in either their country of interest or in their country of abode.
Each of the Chapters should be about 8,000 words.
Schedule
Main deadlines:
·         1st May 2016:
Deadline for abstracts (max. 300 words)
·         31st May 2016:
Notification of acceptance of contributions
·         1st October 2016:                               
Deadline for full paper (max. 7,000 words)
·         31st December 2016:
Reviewers feedback
·         1st February 2017
Final revised contribution

All papers shall be peer-reviewed by contributors. The submission deadline for initial expressions of interest in the form of abstracts of approximately 300 words is Thursday 1st May 2016. Abstracts should be sent as e-mail attachments to the Editors: Samuel O Idowu, s.idowu@londonmet.ac.uk and Rene Schmidpeter, r.schmidpeter@cbs.de


The book will be published by a major European publishing company.