International Management IM

As part of our university's commitment to champion responsible management and the United Nations' Agenda 2030, we are pleased to invite the members of the global PRME community to join us this year in the beautiful alpine landscape of Switzerland for the RME Research Conference 2020.

We invite contributions from a wide range of disciplinary traditions that explore responsible management issues from both conceptual and practical perspectives, and we encourage contributions, which are multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary in nature. We welcome contributions that can be of a conceptual, qualitative or quantitative nature.

Contributions to the conference, i.e. to its streams, can be submitted in the form of abstracts (up to 200 words), extended abstracts (up to 1,000 words), working papers (research-in-progress) (up to 2,500 words) or full papers (up to 6,000 words, excluding references).

The conference will feature an AMLE Paper Development Workshop (PDW). This PDW provides a space for members of the RME community to receive feedback on their research-in-progress pieces and to further develop them for possible submission to AMLE or other relevant outlets. PDW places will be limited and competitive; those submitting working papers who wish to be considered for inclusion in the PDW should indicate this during the submission process.

The submissions window opens on 1^st May 2020. The link will be available on the conference website on this date (www.fhgr.ch/rmerc-2020). To be accepted, contributions must be submitted only through this website. All submissions must be in English. Each accepted contribution must be accompanied by at least one full conference registration at the speaker rate. The submission deadline is 31^st May 2020.

We encourage scholars from the International Managment community to contribute. Some themes covered in the conference which may be of particular interest to the IM community are highlighted in the topical streams below:

Stream 1: Alleviate poverty and hunger

Stream 2: Ensure healthy lives and well-being

Stream 3: Achieve equality

Stream 4: Explore the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and PRME in sustainable development

Stream 5: Ensure quality responsible management education, teaching and learning

Stream 6: Promote responsible leadership

Stream 7: Expand research on responsible management

Stream 8: Promote responsible economic growth and decent work

Stream 9: Ensure responsible production and consumption patterns

Contributions to the tracks in this stream may focus on, but are not limited to, the following questions:

• What is the role of family firms in achieving the SDGs?
• What are the motives for companies to engage in responsible management?
• Can multinational enterprises (MNEs) be entrusted with achieving responsible production and consumption patterns?
• What are alternate economic models that MNEs can deploy quickly?
• What will cause a sizeable shift from the utilisation of new products/services (made from virgin resources) to a circular economy?
• Are humans being programmed to favour and consume new products?
• As consumption in emerging economies rises, is it at all possible to avoid increased consumption of virgin resources?
• How do MNEs approach responsible production and consumption, and how are such initiatives managed within the organization?
• How are CSR initiatives of MNEs linked to responsible production and consumption?
• How are government policies influencing MNEs' approach towards responsible production and consumption?
• What is the role of digital technologies in bringing about responsible market actors?
• How does the representation of new technologies shape responsible practices?
• How can social media platforms enable and constrain ethical consumers?
• What is the role of social media influencers or "influencer networks"?
• What is the role of responsible management education in promoting responsible production and consumption patterns?

Stream 10: Explore the role of sustainable development in developed and emerging economies

Contributions to the tracks in this stream may focus on, but are not limited to, the following questions:

• What is the role, relevance and intended impact of sustainable development, responsible management and PRME in emerging economies?
• What is the role, relevance and intended impact of sustainable development, responsible management and PRME in developed economies?
• How can technological innovations help to reconcile fast economic growth and sustainable development in emerging economies?
• Which desired and/or unintended impacts does digitalisation have in developed and/or emerging economies and their respective populations?
• What is the role of business and corporate social responsibility in helping the development of emerging economies?
• What is the role of responsible management education in helping the development of emerging economies?

Stream 11: Alleviate climate change and provide clean energy

Stream 12: Promote strong institutions and reduce corruption

Stream 13: Foster partnerships and dialogue on sustainable development

Stream 14: Assess and measure the impact of responsibility efforts

Stream 15: Conference general stream

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Christian Hauser
Swiss Institute for Entrepreneurship (SIFE), FHGR, Chur
Chur
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