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2007 GODS HOST Knowledge Partners & Sponsors Marketing Partners
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
- 2007 Recent times are witnessing such evolving concepts as corporate accountability, corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship and the like. Implicit in these ideas is the need to address companies’ policies and practices that have implications not only for them and their immediate clientele, but also for whoever or whatever that may be directly or indirectly affected. Today a company’s merit is assessed not solely based on its financial performance, but also on the social and environmental impacts it has by way of conducting its business as well as on its voluntary initiatives in the latter aspects as a responsible citizen. Corporate social responsibility, considered as business contribution underpinning sustainable development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, is increasingly appreciated and accepted. The focus as such is on the social, environmental and economic imperatives of business – the triple bottom line. While there is a compliance aspect of CSR to keep up with the external demands from various stakeholders, there is also a volitional aspect to it. A company may just comply by meeting the statutory requirements with regard to emission. Or it may engage in community development with the realization that a better community around makes a company better. Not a fully developed concept, CSR is being defined and redefined, so also the triple bottom line. The point however is to practice it. There is also need to measure it, having said that it has to do with performance. Attempts by experts on measuring the triple bottom line are underway. Attempts by companies on implementation are also underway. In this changing scenario from single bottom line to triple bottom line, where the concepts are not fully developed, where the sources of knowledge are not clearly identified, where experiences are not put together and where measuring especially the social and environmental performance is challenging, companies could hardly be expected to readily adopt the triple bottom line and report on it. The pertinent questions are:
To address these issues, academicians, change agents, corporate executives and government officials are expected to put together their knowledge, experiences and skills with regard to the three areas of performance and come out with the guidelines for practice and ways of institutionalization, with a view as to how performance in the three areas positively impact the employees, immediate community and society. It is towards this that GODS2007 is organized. The central theme of the Summit is “Sustainable Development through Enhancing the Triple Bottom Line”.
Conceptual / research papers are solicited from
Academics The broader themes: Social Performance • Learning on social performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society • Ethics concerning social performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society • Institutionalization of roles / practices / customs for social performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society
• Learning on environmental performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society • Ethics concerning environmental performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society • Institutionalization of roles / practices / customs for environmental performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society
• Learning on economic performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society • Ethics concerning economic performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society • Institutionalization of roles / practices / customs for economic performance of business in terms of its impact on employees / community / society
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