A Call for Papers for a Special Edition of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship

‘Landmarks in the History of Corporate Citizenship’

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While it is too early to write a definitive history of the corporate citizenship 'movement', 20 years on from the Brundtland Report is a good time to reflect on key turning points in this changing relationship between business, society and government.

We are inviting papers for consideration for a special edition of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship which will identify and discuss the relevance of key events, initiatives, scandals, publications or laws in the evolution of the field.

Papers may consider the influence of changes to the legal framework, such as the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, or the Limited Liability Acts of 1856, ’58 and ’62; meetings such as the Earth Summit in Rio or the WTO meeting in Seattle; environmental disasters such as Bhopal, the Exxon Valdez spill and Hurricane Katrina; the founding of initiatives such as the Forest Stewardship Council, the Global Compact or the Kimberley Process; or corporate scandals such as BCCI, Enron or Google in China.

Essays may also consider how important key texts have been in shaping and guiding the field; by Adam Smith, Milton Friedman or C.K. Prahalad, for example. Or the influence of the Brundtland or Stern Reports. What impact have movies and books such as The Corporation, No Logo, Super-size Me or An Inconvenient Truth had in creating space for action and theory? And what can we make of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunas and Grameen Bank, and Al Gore and the IPCC in the last two years?

The special edition of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship will run in Spring 2009. The edition will be co-edited by Professor Malcolm Macintosh, Director of the Applied Research Centre in Human Security (ARCHS), Coventry University, UK; Professor David Birch, Director of the Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University, Australia; and Nicky Black, Research Fellow, ARCHS. Please submit papers for peer-review by 31 August 2008 to Nicky Black (please put 'Landmarks' in the subject line). 

Papers submitted may also be considered for an edited book to be published in 2009.