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 gCASM
Open Dayh.
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 gCASM Open Doorh 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 gJapan Forum of Business and Societyh, 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
NTBFfs. 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 yearLs conference was gSustainable
Enterprise: Revisiting an Enterprise Concepth 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.
Conference of the European
Association for Sport Management (EASM) - Review
Bern & Magglingen (Switzerland) September
5th - 8th: The Institute of Sport Science of
the University of Bern and the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingem hosted this important sport management
conference this year. The main goal of the conference is to
discuss challenges and developments of sport organisations
and to establish stronger networks between representatives from
international sport organisations, companies
and educational institutions. Marc Werheid
from the CASM Team Football presented results and insights of the
football related study gCSR in the German professional Soccer Leagueh
with strong focus on the potential interrelationship between Corporate
Social Responsibility and sporting success.
Hamburg Sustainable
Development Summit (HSDS) 2017 – Review
Hamburg,
(Germany), September 25th - 29th:
Along with interdisciplinary sustainability experts from all over the
world, Viola Nyssen and Adeline Grafe from
the Center for Advanced Sustainable Management attended the Hamburg Sustainable
Development Summit (HSDS) 2017. Organized by the University
of Hamburg, the conference concentrated on aspects of sustainable
development at higher education institutions and especially on the
implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals within
education, research, governance, operation, and outreach initiatives.
It was an excellent opportunity for the CASM to exchange, discuss and
learn about new findings and methods in the given field.
Photo: The university of the future - using Lego Serious Play as a
method to envision a sustainable future.
25th CEEMAN Annual
Conference – Review
Hangzhou, (China), September: Monika Kolb and Marina Schmitz joined the
25th CEEMAN Annual
Conference, hosted by the School of Management, Zhejian University. The conference topic
was gRethinking Entrepreneurship: Challenges for Management
Education in Rising Economiesh and gave an opportunity to discuss
latest trends, key issues, opportunities and challenges in the areas of
entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability and to see how
business/management education can better support these processes to
foster more effective entrepreneurship development around the world.
Besides keynote addresses, presentations and highly interactive
roundtables with speakers and participants, the conference included
company visits and meetings with entrepreneurs in Hangzhou. In an
official ceremony the CEEMAN President, Prof. Danica Purg, handed the CEEMAN Membership Certificate over
to Cologne Business School. Monika and Marina invited all CEEMAN
members and PRME CEE members to join the next yearLs 8th Conference on
Sustainability and Responsibility in Cologne.
Visit of "Golden
Bee" – Review
Beijing, (China), September 18th:
Monika Kolb and Marina Schmitz from CASM had the opportunity to visit
the well-known CSR network gGolden Beeh. During their talk with Mr. Gefei YIN, the founder and chief expert of Golden
Bee Management Consulting Co.,Ltd.,
they exchanged ideas on how to increase the global visibility of CSR
and explored future opportunities for collaboration.
PRME CEE Chapter Meeting
August 2017 – Review
Prague, (Czech Republic), August: This yearLs PRME CEE Chapter Meeting
took place in Prague at the VSE. Monika Kolb as representative of the
PRME DACH Chapter joined the meeting and invited the CEE colleagues to
take part at the 5th responsible management education research
conference in November 2018 in Cologne. The meeting was a full success
and brought together the two European PRME Chapters to work closely
interlinked.
6th PRME LAC Regional
Meeting 2017 - Review
Curitiba, (Brazil), September 11th
– 12th: The 6thPRME LAC Regional Meeting
was held at ISAE / FGV headquarters. The objective of the meeting was
to discuss the contributions of Latin American educational institutions
for the achievement of the SDGs. Rodrigo Mello, member of the CASM
team, attended the event as a speaker in the CSR in Latin America
panel, which was moderated by Mr. Gabriel Boero
from USAM (Universidad Nacional de General San Martin). The other
speakers of the panel were Christian Hauser from HTW
Chur/Switzerland and Al Rosenbloom from the Dominican University
in the USA. Rodrigo introduced his findings from his PhD research
program so far and invited all participants to attend the 5th
Responsible Management Education Research Conference and 8th
International Conference on Sustainability and Responsibility in
November 2018, Cologne.
CASM PARTNER EVENTS
SUBMIT
NOW - Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award 2017
With the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award, we are searching for
people and companies who are shaping the world of tomorrow with their
innovative, sustainable and profitable ideas and projects.
We are happy to announce that in addition to the awards and the prize
money of 10,000 euros our submitters have the chance to find an
investor or get public funding. The best projects of the past can be
found on our website.
Innovative and sustainable entrepreneurs can use the free short
submission. Submissions
for this year are being accepted until October 31. Submit
your project HERE!
*CASM is an official partner of the SEA Award*
Nachhaltigkeit: NeueBerichtsspflichtkannauchKleinetreffen (german) -
Review
Cologne (Germany), September 20th: In cooperation
with CASM, the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce hosted
the event: gNachhaltigkeit: NeueBerichtspflichtkannauchKleinetreffenh. Small
presentations and panel discussions elaborated the implications for
SME with regard to the new mandatory sustainability reporting for big
corporations, recently introduced by the German government. The
president of the Cologne Business School, Prof. Dr. Lisa Fröhlich, attended the event as a speaker and
presented the topic from the academic persceptive.
CALL FOR PAPER
Call for Papers Special Issue International Journal of Corporate
Social Responsibility (IJCSR)
Editors: René Schmidpeter, Kanji
Tanimoto
Topics: Sustainable Enterprise: Revisiting an
Enterprise Concept
Journal article in the
International Journal of Management in Education
Implementing Sustainability as the new normal: Responsible Management
Education - from a private business school's perspective has been published.
The authors Monika Kolb, Lisa Froehlich and René Schmidpeter
outline the unique practice of sustainable management education at Cologe Business School. To read the full
article published on the website of Cologne Business School
FOR FREE, click HERE!
