Mutlinational Enterprise and Sustainable Development: Strategic Tool for Competitiveness

CALL FOR PAPERS

Multinational Enterprise and Sustainable Development:

Strategic Tool for Competitiveness

A Research Colloquium

October 19-20, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

* UPDATE: A proceedings book and a special international management journal issue will be published based on conference papers.
* The Center for International Business Education and Research and the Institute for Sustainable Technology and Development of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in partnership with the ICN Ecole de Management and Groupe de Recherche en Gestion Nancy-Metz, France will hold a research colloquium in Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-20, 2006.
* The Colloquium raises the key question of the role which multinational enterprises play in the conception and implementation of sustainable development policies, in the context of economic globalization. Because of the size and scope of their transborder activities, multinationals are global environmental actors and stewards. Their corporate strategies can accelerate or slow the sustainable development process. Contrasting U.S. and European-based multinational enterprises roadmaps will yield innovative solutions for one of the key issues of our era.
* Principal Colloquium themes:


-Multinational Enterprises Sustainable Development Practices: the normative and corporate governance frameworks, decisional structures, organizational behavior and implementing strategies, ranging from human resources to technology and communications;

-Factors and Motivations: the macro-economic, market, social, and political factors which define the emergence and diffusion of multinational practices as well as country or region-specific institutional and cultural issues;

-Multinationals as Global Players: the role of MNEs in evolving regional and international regimes (treaties, codes, norms, standards, monitoring systems) and the impacts of MNEs courses of action

* We welcome paper proposals from research faculty, business and policy practitioners, as well as advanced graduate students bearing on the broad topics identified earlier, with special emphasis on the US and European contexts. Papers focusing on other regions are welcome.

# US-based paper proposals are sent to: Prof. John R. McIntyre, Director, GT CIBER, College of Management, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332-0520, USA email: ciber@mgt.gatech.edu, ph: 404 894 4379, fax: (404) 894-6625
# A U.S.-European Scientific Committee for the Colloquium will review all proposals and drafts. Composition of the Committee will appear in the colloquium website with logistical details
# Deadlines: Proposals are due March 27, 2006; drafts are due: July 17, 2006
# Consult our website: www.mesd.net

Posted on February 06, 2006