we want to celebrate with you! The Center for
Advanced Sustainable Management had its first anniversary and in
order to thank all our partners and friends we are inviting you to
our “CASM Open Day”.
Moreover, the last month has been packed with interesting events
and enriching encounters and many new occasions are coming up!
Furthermore, we are excited to introduce to you our new
visiting professor Kanji Tanimoto from Japan and our guest
researcher ArdeshirZamari
from Iran. Lastly, we invite you to have a look at our latest
publications!
Your CASM Team
NEWS
CASM
Open Door
The Center for Advanced Sustainable Management celebrated its 1st
anniversary on August 3rd, 2017 and only in this short
time, it has become a leading institute in the field of Sustainable
Management Education! As this would not have been possible without
your collaboration and support, it is the perfect occasion to thank
you all and to invite you to our “CASM Open Door” event. The
celebration will take place in our new office space in Cologne on
the 17th of October 2017, from 5PM to 8PM. During the
evening, you will have the possibility to get an insight into the
work and accomplishments of CASM and furthermore, we will present
the winners of the Ethics and Sustainability Award.
In addition, we will give a warm welcome to our new CASM team
members, the visiting professor Kanji Tanimoto from Waseda
University in Japan, Bowen Gu, a guest
researcher from China, and ArdeshirZamani, a guest researcher from Iran. If you
are interested in celebrating together with us, please register HERE.
CASM
PROJECTS
New Visiting
Professor at CASM - Prof. Kanji Tanimoto
The
Center for Advanced Sustainable Management is proud to announce the
visit of Kanji Tanimoto, Professor in Business and Society at the
School of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan. He is the founder and
president of the academy “Japan Forum of Business and Society”,
which is the first academic society in this field in Japan.
Furthermore, he is an editorial member of some journals and he has
served on the program committee of the International
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility at Humboldt
University. Furthermore, he has been consulting and providing
advices to leading Japanese companies on CSR management over the
last 20 years. He also has engaged in some Japanese Government
committees on business & society and social business. His
research interests are the relationship between business and
society, corporate social responsibility, social business and
social innovation and he has published numerous books and papers on
these topics. During his time as a visiting professor at Cologne
Business School, he will be involved in teaching activities and
giving seminars at some major European universities.
New Guest Researcher
from Iran at CASM - ArdeshirZamani
The Center for Advanced Sustainable Management is also happy
to introduce to you ArdeshirZamani, a doctoral candidate at the University
of Teheran, Iran, who will support the team as a guest researcher
for six months. He is a researcher of Strategic Management &
Policy-Making at his university in Teheran and has been working in
this field at a research institute. His research interests include
new technology based firms (such as Nano or Biotechnology firms),
household economic and sustainability. He has published several
articles in international journals and conferences. His
current research at CASM is focused on CSR in new
technology based firms and establishing a strategic collaboration
between Iranian and German NTBF’s. Besides these rather academic
undertakings, Ardeshir is in charge of
operating a grants program and is a member in the Iranian Strategic
Management Society and the Iranian Society for Training and
Development.
CASM ON THE
ROAD
Berliner
CSR-Tag 2017 (german)
October 10th
Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin, Germany INFORMATION
Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter:
Keynote speaker
FachforumKleinstunternehmen
und Handwerk auf Nachhaltigkeitskurs!
(german)
October 18th
Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany INFORMATION
Wolfgang Keck: Editor of CSR und Kleinstunternehmen
5th PRME Meeting about the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter:
Representative of Cologne Business School
5th International Conference
on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance
June 27th - 29th 2018
Santander, Spain INFORMATION
CASM and Cologne Business School: Supporting organization
Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter: Organizing
Committee
JFBS 7th Annual Conference 2017 - Review
Tokyo, (Japan), September 7th – 8th:
As founder and president of the JFBS, Prof. Kanji Tanimoto, currently
visiting professor at Cologne Business School, organized the JFBS 7th Annual Conference
in cooperation with the Humboldt-University Berlin. The topic of this
year´s conference was “Sustainable Enterprise: Revisiting an
Enterprise Concept” and in this respect, traditional business values
were reviewed and various challenges and themes concerning business
and society in both theoretical and practical manners were discussed.
Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter was in the
Steering Committee of the conference and held the chair of the
plenary session.
Teaching at WASEDA University Tokyo - Review
Tokyo,
(Japan), September: Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter held a guest lecture at the
prestigious WASEDA University and got to know
the Japanese perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility and
Innovation through several vivid discussions and excursions. The
exchange of knowledge and opinions was an enriching experience for
all parties! The picture shows him together with colleagues from
WASEDA University and the National Taipei University.
