Workshop: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Economy

Friday 10^th November 2017

Workshop: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Economy

This workshop is now full, please contact Michael.Etter@city.ac.uk to be added to the waiting list.

Join the emerging debate around the digital economy and its challenges with regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics.

The one-day event will consist of presentations, panels, and a paper development workshop.

For the workshop, we invite empirical and conceptual papers that may address the following topics among others:

• The sharing economy
• Digital labour
• Big data, algorithms, and governance
• The power of internet companies
• Social movements, new media, and digital communication
• Surveillance and privacy

Participants will discuss their papers with senior scholars that are experts in the field of CSR and digitalization.

Confirmed speakers and facilitators are:

• Jean-Pascal Gond, Centre for Responsible Enterprise, Cass Business School
• Annabelle Gawer, Co-Director of the University of Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy
• Andreas Scherer, University of Zurich
• Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard Chair in CSR, Schulich School of Business, York University
• Glen Whelan, Lecturer McGill & Visiting Scholar York University Fleura Bardhi, Cass Business School
• Andre Spicer, Centre for Responsible Enterprise, Cass Business School
• Friederike Schultz, Copenhagen Business School / McKinsey & Co.
• Bruce Daisly, Twitter
• Itziar Castello, Centre for Digital Economy, The University of Surrey
• Michael Etter, Centre for Responsible Enterprise, Cass Business School

Please submit an extended abstract (max 500 words, excluding references) by September ^10th 2017 to Michael.etter@city.ac.uk.

Location: Cass Business School, Central London

PhD students can contact Michael.etter@city.ac.uk for opportunities for travel grants.

Timings and Rooms:

11:00 Introduction – Room 2004 (second floor)

11:15 Key notes – Room 2004

• Glen Whelan: Artificial Intelligence, Asymmetries, and Corporate Responsibility
• Annabelle Gawer: Online platforms: is dominance abuse unavoidable?

12:45 Lunch – The Milling Area (second floor)

14:00 Paper development roundtables for manuscripts – only for participants who submitted a paper

15:30 Coffee – The Milling Area (second floor)

16:00 Panel discussion on the digital economy and CSR – Room 2004

• Bruce Daisly, Twitter
• Friederike Schultz, McKinsey and Copenhagen Business School
• Andreas Scherer, University Zurich
• Dirk Matten, Schulich School of Business, York University
• Fleura Bardhi, Cass Business School
• Moderator: Itziar Castello, University of Surrey

17:45 Drinks – The Milling Area (second floor)

18:30 Dinner for workshop-participants – only for participants who submitted a paper