Events

Call for papers “Towards an ecological welfare state: theories and models for the eco-social transitions”, Stream n. 22 of the ESPAnet Italian Conference, Venice, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, 17-18 settembre 2020. The stream is coordinated by: Elisabetta Mocca elisabetta.mocca@univie.ac.at, …

The 5th Summer School on Data and Algorithms for ST&I studies will focus on practical, hands-on aspects of current tools and databases in the STI domain, including PATSTAT and Google Patents using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as well as …

The 2020 SIMA-Sinergie Conference will be online due to Covid-19. We are thrilled to inform you that we organized a panel on Predatory Journals as part of the conference. Predatory publishing is an area where more awareness is needed from …

LA SFIDA DELLA SOSTENIBILITÀ: UNIVERSITÀ E IMPRESE A CONFRONTO NEL CONVEGNO SINERGIE-SIMA 2020  Organizzato da Università di Pisa e dalla Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, si terrà in modalità on-line il 7-8 settembre e coinvolgerà studiosi di primo piano di tutto il …

REMARC will be at the Academy of International Business Conference (AIB 2020 ONLINE) with two competitive papers: “Larger, More Internationalized, Better Behaved? a Configurational Study of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises’ Involvement in Corporate Wrongdoing” by Federica Nieri, Luciano Ciravegna, Ruth Aguilera and Elisa …

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19. MORE NEWS ABOUT THIS INITIATIVE WILL FOLLOW! REMARC is at Eu-SPRI Conference “New Horizons for Science Technology and Innovation Policies” held in Utrecht, 3-5 June 2020 and hosted by Copernicus Institute …

Regions Cities Industry Webinar Series Global megatrends are transforming the way we live, work, interact, finance, produce and consume. At the same time, the increasing environmental impacts of human activities have sharpened the focus on sustainability of further development. New …

Tiziano Distefano will participate, as an invited speaker, at the lunch seminar that will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on February 6th, 2020. The event is organized by Prof. N. Ashford and the audience will be …

Call for Abstract on welfare sustainability within the IV SISEC (Italian Society of Economic Sociology) conference “La riscoperta del valore. Politeismo e ibridazione dei mercati”, Torino (IT) 30 January – 1 February 2020 : Stream 11: “Changing welfare systems and …

The dark side of innovation in times of shifting technological paradigm A Special Session organized at the Geography of Innovation (GEOINNO) 2020 Conference Session organisers Elisa Giuliani, University of Pisa, Responsible Management Research Center (REMARC) – Elisa.giuliani@unipi.it Simona Iammarino, London School …

Monday 13th January 2020  Dr. Valeria Arza  (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research -CONICET Argentina) will present her co-authored paper “In the name of TRIPS: the impact of regulatory changes on patent activity by residents and non-residents in Latin …

Prof. Rajneesh Narula (Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, UK) will give a talk on his paper “Enforcing higher labor standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy”

Chiara Certomà will present  her coauthored paper: “Oltre il  mainstream della global governance socio-ambientale. Conflitti, diritti e imprese” (with Federico Martellozzo and Roberta Gemmiti) at the IX GIORNATA DI STUDIO “OLTRE LA GLOBALIZZAZIONE”.

The 4th International Symposium of the Italian Association of Energy Economistas (AIEE) will take place in Rome, between the 10th and 12th of December. Further information about the event is available at http://www.aieeconference2019rome.eu The first three editions of the AIEE Energy Symposium …

Knowledge sharing event Profit e non-profit: fare spazio alla collaborazione  9 dicembre 2019, 13.00 – 17.30 LUISS Business School – Villa Blanc, Via Nomentana, 216, 00162 Roma Obiettivo La cooperazione allo sviluppo ha subito numerosi cambiamenti negli ultimi anni. I segnali …

1st European Forum on the Regulation of Water Services (EFRWS). The Forum will be held in Italy, kindly hosted by ARERA the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment, wich holds the Presidency of WAREG. The Forum will assess …

Elisa Giuliani will be visiting scholar at the University of Tolouse (18-22 November), and give a talk at the Bernard Maris Chair-LEREPS-LabEx SMS joint conference “Innovation, Geography and Inequalities” The conference is organized on Wednesday 20/11; 6:00-8:00pm at the Heritier Conference …

Tommaso Luzzati will participate, as an an invited guest, at the international forum “Ecological Economics and Ecological Civilization” that will be held at the School of Economics, Peking University on November 15th-16th 2019. The goals of this conference are to …

Dr Caroline Witte (CBS) will be presenting her co-authored work on Political First-mover Advantage: Step in Post-conflict Environments Abstract Multinational enterprises (MNEs) contemplating foreign direct investment in a post-conflict economy are facing a dilemma: investing now to preempt competitors or waiting …

Welfare recalibration and the ecological crisis: research topics, approaches and findings for a sustainable transition Pisa, 11 November 2019, 14:00 – 18:30 Aula Magna Palazzo Boilleau, via Santa Maria, 85 Program HERE – Fyer HERE – Info Unipi Eventi HERE / QUI International …

The third Green Academy Winter Seminar will take place at Plitvice Lakes from the 8th to the 10th of November, and will be organized in cooperation with the Green European Foundation, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich …

Simone D’Alessandro gives a seminar on “Alternatives to Green Growth: Low-Carbon Transition Needs Social Equity” at the RFF-CMCC European Institute for Economics & the Environment The paper is co-authored with André Cieplinski, Tiziano Distefano, and Kristofer Dittmer Abstract: Climate change and …

Flaviano Bianchini will give a talk at the first conference on Environmental Peacebuilding at University of California, Irvine. Environmental stresses and related conflicts have created global humanitarian crises that have displaced 65 million people. Grievances over land and valuable natural resources …

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion Speakers: David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and Flaviano Bianchini, Director and Founder of SOURCE International Moderator: Adriana Dinu, Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP This Brown Bag …

The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and the Bretton Woods Project host a discussion at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of the World Bank Group and IMF Annual Meetings’ Civil Society Policy Forum. This session will explore the …

Open Seminar How to notice Subtle Differences to contribute to more Sustainable approaches in Social Work? 17 ottobre 2019, 14:30 – 17:30, Room E1 Polo Piagge Flyer: HERE Speaker: Randi Edland Kroken, Associate Professor in Social Work at University of Agder Foreward: …

Si terrà a Trieste il 14 e 15 ottobre, la quarta edizione dell’Italian Business and SDGs Annual Forum promosso dal Global Compact Network Italia e rivolto principalmente alle aziende e alle organizzazioni italiane aderenti al Global Compact delle Nazioni Unite. L’evento sarà ospitato da Gruppo …

First International Workshop on water and waste management: “Water and waste management in circular economy: efficiency, innovation and policy implications” that will be held at the University of Brescia (Italy), October 10-11, 2019   You can find the main information …

Capitalism, Conflict, and Cooperation: A Celebration of the Work of Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis will be held in the Kellogg Center on the 15th Floor of Columbia University’s International Affairs Building. You can find information on the workshop at: https://econ.columbia.edu/event/ccc2019/

cos’è il Salone Il Salone, il più importante evento in Italia dedicato alla sostenibilità, è prima di tutto un’occasione per attivare energie positive, condividere idee, trovare percorsi comuni. Due giorni intensi grazie a un ricco programma culturale, molti appuntamenti stimolanti, …

Irene Monasterolo to give a keynote speech on climate financial risk pricing at the 18th CREDIT conference. The Conference, to be held in Venice on September 26-27, 2019, is organised under the auspices of the Department of Economics of the University …

Irene Monasterolo will lecture at the first summer school on sustainable finance organized by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Community of Practice in Financial Research (CoPFiR). Call for applications The school mainly addresses two communities Young researchers: …

Elisa Giuliani will be at the forthcoming AIB Annual Meeting’s JIBS PDW talking about the new grand challenges for IB research.  Guess what she will talk about? 

Since its foundation in 1996, the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) has promoted transdisciplinary research on the theoretical and practical prerequisites of sustainable development. In 2019, ESEE held its biennial conference in Turku, SW Finland. In the historically beautiful …

Elisa Giuliani will be lecturing at the Responsible Capitalism summer school hosted by Venice International University (VIU) in cooperation with the two member universities Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Lausanne. It aims at the development of ideas that promote …

REMARCafé  – Il primo World Café a Pisa sui temi dello sviluppo sostenibile e del management responsabile This event is in Italian and is part of REMARC’s dissemination mission to the local society  Sei preoccupato per il cambiamento climatico? Vuoi saperne …

Redefining the frontier: Value chains and catching up in the era of sustainability grand challenges  Elisa Giuliani will be giving a talk at the ICC conference on what it means to be at the ‘frontier’ in the process of catching …

Chiara Franco (Department of Political Science, University of Pisa) will give a seminar on sustainable consumption based on a paper co-authored with C. Ghisetti. Abstract “Sustainable consumption” is placed at the core of the current policy agenda, being recognized as …

Elisa Giuliani at Leibniz University Hannover to talk about Regional Economic Development, Human Rights and Inequality Structure and schedule of the seminars: Session (6 May 2019): Regional Economic Development and the Pro-Growth Agenda In this session I will seek to introduce …

Simone D’Alessandro and its team – T. Distafeano, P. Guarnieri, and A. Cieplinski – prensent the results from a system dynamics ecological macroeconomics model, based on the EUROGREEN report,  calibrated for the Italian economy. The aim is to investigate the impact …

Irene Monasterolo gave a Seminar entitled “A Climate Risk Assessment of Sovereign Bonds’ Portfolio” at the Stanford University’s Energy Seminar series. Abstract A 2°C aligned transition could generate opportunities for sustainable growth, competitiveness and financial stability. Nevertheless, a disordered low-carbon …

REMARC will be at the projection of the documentary Soyalism  by  Stefano Liberti (co-director), Enrico Parenti (co-director). E The documentary explores how China and Western agribusiness are taking over the world’s grain and meat industry, while putting small farmers out of business and plundering the …

Valentina De Marchi will give a seminar on “Environmental Upgrading in Global Value Chains”.  Valentina is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Management ‘Marco Fanno’ at the University of Padova, where she teaches Strategy and Green Supply Chain Management. Her research …

Martini Pasquini  will give a lecture on Social Business Hybrids. Martina Pasquini is Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at IE University since September 2014.  Her research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology strategies, and innovation management with a particular …

Friday, March 22 19.15: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Swedish premiere! A documentary at the intersect of art and science which depicts humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet (87 min, doc). Directors: Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier Q&A discussion with: Flaviano …

REMARC will join one of the CSR meetings, to promote the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through university action and advocacy. The meeting, “I territori della sostenibilità” will be held in Pisa Auditorium Centro Congressi “Le Benedettine” Piazza S. …

Central banks are increasingly engaging with academics on climate change. Irene Monasterolo will present the results of the paper “Pricing climate transition risks and opportunities into investments’ performance: A carbon risk assessment of central banks’ portfolios”, coauthored with Stefano Battiston. The …

Herrenhausen Conference on “The New Role of the State for the Emergence and Diffusion of Innovation” on February 20-22, 2019, Hanover, Germany. The role of the state in knowledge societies in general and with respect to the generation and diffusion …

Flaviano Bianchini will be at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, to talk about environmental crimes. He will address the investigation and prosecution of environmental and climate crime as a crime against humanity. You can find more …

Elisa Giuliani will give a lecture on her recent Research Policy note at the STePS Research Group of the University of Twente. Giuliani E. (2018) Regulating global capitalism amid rampant corporate wrongdoing – Reply to “Three frames for innovation policy”, Research Policy 47 …

Organised by the BHRights Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching on Business and Human Rights, this Research Workshop will take place on Thursday 29 November 2018 in Geneva (9:00 – afternoon), back-to-back to the UN Forum on Business and Human …

Elisa Giuliani will be joining the Business and Human Rights Network of Business Schools  co-organized by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the Business & Human Rights Catalyst at Alliance Manchester Business School, and the Geneva School of …

Annamaria Tuan will be joining the workshop “Innovazione sociale, sostenibilità e crescita: il ruolo delle imprese B-corp e della finanza“. The workshop presents the first results of MoBIS research carried out by the University of Padua, partner in the project …

REMARC will be at the THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE conference organized by the Agenda for International Development (A-id) and the Scuola Sann’Anna DIRPOLIS Institute. When the SDGs were adopted in 2015, there was a lot of consternation …

REMARC will join the Italian Business & SDGs Annual Forum, promoted by the Global Compact Network Italia (GCNI) in collaboration with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.  More news on the event will come soon!

REMARC will be at the biggest CSR event in Italy (Salone della CSR e dell’innovazione sociale) held in Milan October 2-3 2018.  More news soon!  

Elisa Giuliani will be teaching regional development, human rights and inequality at the RSA Europe Socio-Spatial Dynamics Summer College 2018 – Cagliari, Sardinia Novel Approaches to Sustainable and Inclusive Development The Regional Studies Association Europe’s Socio-Spatial Dynamics Summer College will create …

27 April H 14:45-17:30 (Aula Magna – Dipartimento Economia and Management) Speakers:  Christopher B. Yenkey (Darla Moore School of International Business, University of South Carolina) The outsider’s advantage: Distrust as a deterrent to exploitation Abstract: Trust creates vulnerability to exploitation. …

Celia Moore (Bocconi University)   20th April H 15-18 Aula Bruguier Pacini Do snakes get ahead? The role of moral disengagement in career advancement Abstract: While several individual characteristics that predict career advancement have been identified, to date they have been limited to human capital inputs …

Flaviano Bianchini will give a talk on business and human rights focusing on the case of Cerro de Pasco, a city of Peru, hit by serious problems linked with environmental pollution related to mining extraction activities that are hurting  80,000 people.

Elisa Giuliani will be convening a panel on “Organizational Upgrading and the Diffusion of International Standards in Emerging Markets” together with Gerald A. McDermott (Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina); Miguel Lengyel (CIECTI & FLACSO Argentina); Laszlo …

Elisa Giuliani will be giving a talk on “Value chain management: sustainable value chain, supplier social certification, and operations in emerging markets” at the EIBA Annual Meeting’s Panel on  “Transition toward a Sustainable Economy: Opportunities and Challenges for MNEs” convened by …

REMARC will be at the Center for Emerging Markets, Northeastern University in Boston. Elisa Giuliani will talk about corporate wrongdoings by large public emerging country firms.

Flaviano Bianchini will partecipate to the World Ethical Apparel Roundtable to talk about labour with Ashoka Fabric of Change. The global apparel and textile industry is an important entity – valued at more than three trillion dollars. With this comes a …

Daniele Dalli and Annamaria Tuan will join the Workshop “Corporate Social Responsibility in the digital economy” organized at Cass Business School (London) to discuss a paper about automated content analysis of CSR reports. The one-day event will consist of presentations, …

Elisa Giuliani will give a talk at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2017 in Brussels on “REGIONS AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Development”. Other panelists include Simona Iammarino (convenor), Tina Ambos, Raquel Ortega Argiles, …

Elisa Giuliani gives a talk at the AIB/United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Special Panel “Research on the SDGs: Perceptions from Academia and International Organisations” Chaired by Richard Bolwijn (UNCTAD). Other panelists included Lilac Nachum (City University New …

Elisa Giuliani organizes a Panel together with Valentina Marano (Northeastern University) on “CSR of Emerging Country MNEs: Toward a New Research Agenda” at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in Dubai.   Our panelists include: Ruth Aguilera (Northeastern University) …

Elisa Giuliani gives a talk at the Symposium “Business and Human Rights: Where we have been, where we need to go” organized by K. Rehbein, T. Olsen, J. Schrempf-Stirling and M. Westermann-Behaylo during the International Association For Business and Society …

Does the appropriation of knowledge through Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) generate detrimental impacts on the economy and society? Under what conditions is this more likely to occur, and what are the policy challenges ahead to address these impacts? An ongoing …

On 20th February 2017 we had the pleasure to have Andrew Crane and Sarah Glozer presenting the paper “Researching CSR communication: Themes, opportunities and challenges” published on Journal of Management Studies.   Andrew Crane – Professor of Business and Society …

The workshop intends to bridge this gap and aims at promoting a human rights research agenda in international management and international business. The call for papers solicits both theoretical and empirical contributions, which draw on different research streams and disciplines, …