CSR, Management, Politics & Society — December 30, 2012 at 5:39 am

Managing Global Stakeholders, Managing Stakeholders Globally

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The management of local and global stakeholders is one of the most critical aspects of the business imperative of multinational corporations.  This talk provides a outline and examples of this imperative within the context of modern stakeholder theory along with notions of agency theoretic governance.  There are two parts to the talk.  The first, given here, is a 45-minute keynote address to the 5th International CSR & Governance Conference in Berlin.  The second is a Q&A session that followed this talk with Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University).  The Q&A is given here.

There are a number of other videos from the conference that may be of interest to scholars, students and others.  Below is a few of the other videos.

Keynote Address by Simon Zadek on “A Public Fiduciary”.  View Video [Approximately 45 minutes]

Plenary Executive Panel with Robert Eccles (HBS) on “CSR Measurement and Reporting”.  Participants: Jeremy Grist (Climate Change & Sustainability Services, Ernst&Young, South Africa), Renata Casaro (Corporate Vice President of Investor Relation, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Germany) Paul Druckman (CEO, International Integrated Reporting Council, UK), Karenina Schröder (Berlin Civil Society Center, Germany), Susanne Stormer (Novo Nordisk, Denmark).  View Video [Approximately 90 minutes].

Plenary Executive Panel led by Michael Skapinger (FT).  Participants: Björn Stigson (Former President of the  World Business Council for SustainableDevelopment, WBCSD), Alan Aicken (Vice-President Supplier CSR Management, Huawei Technologies Co., Shenzhen, China), Gerhard Prätorius  (Head of CSR and Sustainability, Volkswagen Group, Germany), Simon Zadek (Founder of AccountAbility, UK).  View Video [Approximately 90 minutes].

Keynote Address by, and Lifetime Achievement Award to, Archie Carroll (with an introduction by Sandra Waddock).  View Video  [Approximately 90 minutes].

Plenary Panel on “Innovating for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities Post Rio+20”.  Participants:Michael Skapinker (FT), Robert Eccles (HBS, USA), Katrin Muff (Dean, Lausanne Business School, Switzerland), Gerhard Prätorius (Head of CSR and Sustainability, Volkswagen Group, Germany),  Christian Seelos (Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, USA), Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University, Italy).  View Video [Approximately 90 minutes].

Plenary Panel on “Building a New Institutional Infrastructure for CSR”. Participants: Sandra Waddock (Boston College, USA), Edward Freeman (University of Virgina, USA), Dirk Matten (York University, Canada), Dima Jamali (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Johanna Mair (Stanford University and Hertie School of Governance, USA/Germany), Sartini Wardiwiyono (University of Ahmad Dahlan, Indonesia).  View Video [Approximately 90 minutes].

There are also a series of shorter structured interviews with academic, business and societal leaders from prior conferences at: http://www.csr-hu-berlin.org/past-csr-conferences/2010-4th-csr-conference/retrospect/interviews/

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Author: Timothy Devinney is a Professor and Chair of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Before that he was University Leadership Chair, Professor of International Business and former Pro-Dean of Research and Innovation at the University of Leeds (UK), Professor and Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and Director of the Centre for Corporate Change and the AGSM Executive MBA. He has held positions at Vanderbilt, UCLA, Chicago, CBS and HKUST. Before joining the AGSM he held positions on the faculties of The University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University and UCLA and has been a visiting faculty member at numerous universities in Europe and Asia, and taught at many others. He has published a dozen books, including Managing the Global Corporation and The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (with P. Auger and G. Eckhardt) and more than 100 articles in leading journals. In 2008 he was the first recipient in management of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (Forschungspreis) and was Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), ANZAM, Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Academy of Arts. European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Advanced Institute of Management (UK). He is the 2018 winner of the Academy of Management's (AOM) Practice Impact Award and the 2019 Service to the Global Academic Community Award. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the AOM. Timothy was the co-editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives and Advances in International Management as well as being on the editorial review boards of 10 other journals and a Director of SSRN's International Management and Sustainability and Social Policy Research Networks.

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