Thursday, August 19, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2010 International Conference on Governance and Accountability (ICGA)

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The 2010 International Conference on Governance and Accountability (ICGA)






Assalamualaikum and Salam Sejahtera,

We are pleased to inform that UiTM-ACCA Asia-Pacific Centre for Sustainability (APCeS) together with the Indonesian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Development (ICSEARD), Social Responsibility Research Network (SRRNet), DeMonfort University's Centre for Research into Organisation Governance (CROG), Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology, and Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey will be organizing an International Conference on Governance and Accountability on December 5-8, 2010 at Sebelas Maret University- Solo Paragon in Solo City.

(LINK TO CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://icga.icseard.uns.ac.id/ )


The conference will be a deliberately informal gathering of researchers, teachers, students and practitioners concerned with governance and accountability, social and environmental accounting, teaching and research in the very widest sense. The emphasis of this gathering is on a high level of interaction, discussion and debate in a friendly, supportive and relaxed atmosphere.

CALL FOR PAPERS  

Academics and researchers worldwide are invited to submit full-length papers, research-in-progress papers, case studies, abstracts, or special session proposals for the 2010 International Conference on Governance and Accountability for suggested topics included but not limited to:

  • Governance and regulation
  • National v supra-national governance
  • Free markets and governance
  • Multi-national corporate accountability
  • Social responsibility and free markets
  • Globalisation and corporate activity
  • Regulation of corporate social and environmental behaviour
  • Governmental influences on corporate accountability
  • CSR and corporate governance
  • CSR and stakeholders
  • CSR and corporate risk
  • Corporate responsibility and triple bottom line
  • Sanctions for non-compliance in a global market
  • Regulating the regulators
  • Social and environmental accounting
  • Ethical issues in accounting and financial reporting
  • Accounting for the Costs and Benefits of CSR-related Activities
  • Accounting and Disclosure of Environmental Liabilities
  • Corporate Environmental Strategy
  • Corporate social responsibility and management control
Deadline for paper submission: Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Preference will be given to full papers, however, abstracts of 200-500 words will also be considered. All papers and abstracts should be sent by August 31, 2010 by email to Dr. Hasan Fauzi.( hfauzi@icseard.uns.ac.id )

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM

In this conference also will be running a doctoral colloquium on one day of the conference. The aim will be to give detailed feedback to doctoral researchers concerning their papers. Feedback will be specific to each person and their research, and will be given by an experienced academic in the field. The colloquium will be an integral part of the conference and all delegates will be expected to participate fully in the conference but the sessions will give extra time to presenters – to allow for discussion and formal feedback. In order to allow detailed feedback full papers will be required and should be sent by 31 August 2010 by email to Dr. Haslinda Yusoff (hasli229@salam.uitm.edu.my) and to be coded Doctoral Colloquium on top of paper cover.


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