Given increased social, ecological, digital and political challenges, the economic and legal requirements, companies face multiple and sometimes conflicting responsibilities. They are responsible toward many stakeholders –employees, customers, suppliers, states, communities and others–, at various geographical levels –local, regional, global–, and over different time frames –short, medium and long term.

This multiplicity of issues, in a complex world subject to recurring crises, makes it more and more difficult to draw boundaries around companies’ responsibilities and to organize them efficiently and meaningfully.

The 2023 EBEN research conference has three objectives. First, it aims at exploring the links, complementarities, and tensions between all these responsibilities. Second, it aims at building bridges between the concepts of corporate responsibility, sustainability, business ethics, compliance both from a theoretical and practical points of view. Third, it aims at opening fruitful dialogues between the academic and practitioners’ communities working on those concepts and issues.

To explore and clarify the conceptual, organizational and operational boundaries of corporate responsibilities, we invite submissions from various disciplinary fields including but not limited to philosophy, ethics, legal, management, organisation studies, and sociology. We also encourage submission drawing on broad range of methodological approach, including qualitative, quantitative, and conceptual work.

Application and deadlines

• Submission deadline: 18.06.2023
• Submission should be made via email: ebenresearchconference2023@gmail.com
• Registration: shortly after acceptance notification by mid-July 2023, authors of accepted papers will receive an online registration link. The conference program and other details will also be released on the conference website.
• Participation fees: 300 euros for professors and 100 euros for Ph.D students (proof of enrolment in a Ph.D program required)

 Practical details

The conference will take place at ESSCA School of Management on its Parisian campus in Boulogne Billancourt (92100).

If you have any questions, please contact us at ebenresearchconference2023@gmail.com . For more information, please visit the conference website:  https://eben-net.org/

 Organising institutions

The 2023 EBEN Research Conference is organized by EBEN France in partnership with three academic institutions: ESSCA, Excelia and Audencia business schools.

The organizing committee consists of:

• Elisabeth Gressieux, ESSCA School of Management, France, professor of business ethics and CSR – gressieux@essca.fr
• Cécile Ezvan, Excelia Business School, France, professor of strategy, business ethics and CSR – ezvanc@excelia-group.com
• Céline Louche, Audencia Business School, France, professor of Business and Society – clouche@audencia.fr