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EABIS 2010 Colloquium - Corporate Responsibility and Emerging Markets

20 Sep 2010 - 21 Sep 2010, St Petersburg, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

How is Corporate Responsibility understood and applied in Emerging Market contexts and cultures? And, is it a viable framework for tackling critical challenges ahead? Join us and discuss with 300+ business, academic and civil society representatives!

Event organiser: EABIS
EABIS is a unique alliance of companies, business schools and academic institutions that is, with the support of the European Commission, committed to integrating business in society issues into the heart of business theory and practice in Europe.

Type of event: conference
Target audience: chief executives, marketers, CSR managers, HR managers, procurement managers, community affairs managers, NGOs
Issues covered: general CSR, human rights, community affairs, environment, product responsibility, supply chain, customer issues, corporate governance, strategy

The current crisis has undermined confidence in the Western-dominated paradigm of economic governance. This has created a vacuum of authority within which Emerging Markets have claimed a greater say in defining global economic governance

Even before the crisis, the combined effects of economic and social globalization were altering the balance of power between “developed” and “emerging” nations. Access to capital, knowledge and talent have levelled the global playing fields on which firms – old and new – compete.

Yet the increased economic and geopolitical weight of emerging markets and their leading firms has a price: a greater responsibility to address social, environmental and governance issues to ensure the long-term sustainability and stability of the global market system.

The 2010 Colloquium will debate critical issues for the changing role of business across four main dimensions:
• Emerging markets and global governance
• Global trends, futures and the implications for enterprise strategy
• Multinationals as change agents in a post-crisis world
• Strategy, governance and executive development in & for emerging markets

Invited Keynote Speakers Include:

Alexei Mordashev – Chairman and CEO, Severstal
Gerard Mestrallet – CEO, GDF Suez
Muhammad Yunus – Nobel Laureate
Gill Marcus – Governor, South African Reserve Bank
Ying Chen – Director, Beijing Rong Zhi Institute of Corporate Social Responsibility
Jean-Pierre Lehmann – Professor of Political Economy, IMD
Kirill Korniliev – GM East Europe & Asia, IBM
Andrew Kakabadse – Vice Dean, Cranfield School of Management