Governance
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Stakeholder approach to the firm
- Role of stakeholders in corporate governance processes
- Employee participation and ownership
- Cooperatives and self-management models
- Responsible corporate governance, value creation and risk management
- Gender issues in corporate governance
- Power and trust in corporate governance
- Corporate governance and stewardship theory
- Corporate governance: a resource dependence perspective
- Trade unions and corporate governance
Management
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Models of participative management
- Organizational leadership and participative management
- Management of cooperative organization
- Workplace democracy
- Identity and sense making in participative organization
- Social networks in organizations
- Economic Inequality and management
- Postmodernism and management
- Critical approaches to management and strategic management
- Governance and management towards social responsibility
Entrepreneurship
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Responsible entrepreneurship
- Social responsible investing (SRI)
- Social entrepreneurship
- Sustainable development, regional development and entrepreneurship
- Stakeholding and entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship and crowdfunding
- Entrepreneurship and microfinance
- Strategies, business models, processes and practices for innovation and responsible entrepreneurship
- Policy frameworks and measures for innovation and entrepreneurship
- Resource mobilization in new ventures and social responsibility
Communication
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Corporate communication
- Communication management
- Crisis communication
- Social networks in organizations
- Mass media communication
- Organizational culture
- Shaping organizational image
- Integrated organizational communication
- Strategic communication
- Organizational communication tools & techniques