The Sustainable Corporation: How to Secure Value in a Competitive World
The Department of Ethics, Social, and Political Philosophy (ESPP), and the Center of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE); University of Groningen in collaboration with the research program on sustainable cooperation (SCOOP) and the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS), are calling for people to register to attend their conference on the topic ‘The Sustainable Corporation’.
The conference will be held in person only on January 22–23 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52.
The schedule is as follows:
Thursday 22nd January
10.00 – 10:30 Registration
10.30 – 11.30 Abraham Singer – The Priority of Cooperation for Normative Theories of the Firm
Break
11.45 – 12.30 Maddalena Fazzo Cusan – Is there a difference between corporations and robots? A pragmatist account of corporate agency
Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Michael Eigner – From here to there: Transformative Agency in the Sustainable Corporation
14.15 – 15.00 Daniela Langen – Shaming as a means to enforce willingness for cooperation?
Break
15.15 – 16.00 Job de Grefte – The sustainable organization as a moral agent
16.00 – 17.00 Katrin Heucher – Catalyzing Change from Within: How Insider Social Change Agents Reimagine the Sustainable Corporation
Friday 23rd January
10.00 – 11.00 Kenneth Silver – Corporate Limitarianism
11.00 – 11.45 Chris Zhang – The Fractured Collective
Break
11.45 – 12.30 Fabian Corver– Toward a Normative Theory of the Sustainable Firm: Confronting Schumpeterian Competition
Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Victor Chung – A Market Failures Approach to Unionization
14.15 – 15.00 Frank Jan De Graaf – How purpose develops in hybrid governance mechanisms
Break
15.20 – 16.20 Sandrine Blanc – Corporate Governance in the Rawlsian Tradition: Institutionalist and Agentialist Perspectives
To register for the conference, please email m.eigner@rug.nl and specify that you plan to attend, along with any dietary requirements.