4th Annual ARCS Conference To Be Held at Yale University - Call for Papers

The 4th Annual ARCS Research Conference will take place Wed. May 16 - Fri. May 18, 2012 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Call for Papers seeks submissions of unpublished working papers focused on business and sustainability issues, both social and environmental. Sponsored by Yale's Center for Business and the Environment, this conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives who share a strong commitment to advancing research on corporate sustainability. This follows the successful 3rd Annual ARCS Conference held at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania May 9-11, 2011, at which 130 corporate sustainability researchers from eleven countries gathered to present and discuss leading papers in the field.

The ARCS Conference will be preceded on May 16 by the first ARCS Sustainability Teaching Summit - From Classrooms to Boardrooms: Embedding Sustainability Research in Curriculum and Corporate Strategy. This event will showcase and discuss the latest available pedagogical approaches, tools and materials. The conference will begin with dinner on May 16th, and conclude the afternoon of May 18th.

The firm deadline for submitting papers is Tuesday January 31, 2012. Instructions for submitting papers will be made available on the ARCS web site by Monday January 2nd. Those who submit papers will be notified regarding paper selection by February 23rd. The program will be announced by March 1, 2012.

For questions about the conference, please contact Erika Herz, ARCS Managing Director, at herze [at] darden [dot] virginia [dot] edu.

 Call for papers:

http://www.corporate-sustainability.org/news/news/ARCS_Call_for_Papers_2012.v.11.29.11.pdf