Events

The first date of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) Seminar Series 22/23 will be hosted by Elisa Giuliani and Gianluca Biggi on ‘Zooming into the hearth of patents: Methodological steps to examine their potential harms’ The registration link …

We are glad to invite you to participate in the 9th conversation in ‘IN CONVERSATION’ SERIES, organized by CRIS-IS.ORG & UNU-MERTI JORGE KATZ IN CONVERSATION WITH Valeria Arza The event will be anchored by VERONICA ROBERT Penel of discussants: CARLOTA PEREZ, JOSE …

We are glad to welcome you to the “International Workshop on Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public Services” held at the Department of Economics and Management in Pisa. This workshop is the eighth of a series of academic meetings …

Elisa Giuliani will be a speaker at the 2022 Academy of International Business Annual Meeting that will take place in Miami, Florida. She will also be speaking at the UNCTAD SPECIAL SESSION titled “Investing in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation …

Gianluca Biggi will be a speaker at the Geography of Innovation Conference (GEOINNO) 2022. The Geography of Innovation Conference provides a forum for discussion to scholars interested in scientific, policy and strategic issues concerning the spatial dimension of innovation activities. …

Il giorno 1 luglio 2022 alle ore 9.00, presso l’Aula Magna del Dipartimento di Economia e Management dell’Università di Pisa si terrà il Workshop “The Time-Space Evolution of Economic Activities: Mathematical Models and Empirical Applications”. L’evento è realizzato nell’ambito del PRIN 2017. …

Elisa Giuliani will be one of the speakers of the Comparative Political Economy of Global Business Research Conference, that will take place from 30 June to 1 July at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The event is organised by …

The 6th edition of the Summer School series on Responsible Capitalism set for 27-30 June 2022. Applications deadline is the 6th of March 2022. In its sixth edition, the summer school aims at the development of ideas that promote a …

Tommaso Luzzati, professore associato di Economia Politica presso il Dipartimento di Economia e Management dell’Università di Pisa, parteciperà al dibattito organizzato dall’associazione ScopriAMO Pisa dal titolo “LA CRISI ENERGETICA. La guerra ci lascerà a secco? Le fonti rinnovabili ci salveranno?”  …

A celebrazione dei 25 anni della Collana ‘I diritti economici’, verrà presentato il volume di studi PASSALACQUA M. (a cura di), Diritti e mercati nella transizione ecologica e digitale, Padova, Cedam, 2021, dedicato al fondatore, prof. Mauro Giusti, il quale …

Simone D’Alessandro, professore ordinario di Economia Politica presso l’Università di Pisa, parteciperà alla tavola rotonda “Università e imprese per lo sviluppo sostenibile” durante il convegno “Costruire conoscenze e competenze per lo sviluppo sostenibile “, che avrà luogo il prossimo 20 …

REMARC will be present with Prof. Elisa Giuliani and the Phd Scholar Verdiana Morreale at the PhD-SDCC Multi-Disciplinary (MD) event in Pavia, from 20 to 22 June. The event, hosted by IUSS Pavia,  will give the participants the opportunity to …

Verdiana Morreale will be speaker at the PhD Workshop in Business, Human Rights and the Living Environment, hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Law and Governance of Wageningen. She will present her paper “CEOs’ reactions to Human Rights Defenders: behavioral configurations …

Call for abstracts In June 1972 the environmental crisis was internationally acknowledged by the first UN conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Exactly 50 years will have passed when the Pisa 2022 Conference of European Society for Ecological Economics …

The DRUID PDW on Grand Innovation Challenges is organized by Alba Marino, Alessandra Perri, and Vera Rocha. Speakers, discussants, and moderators include Jonatan Pinkse, Pelin Demirel, Tobias Kretschmer, Sofia Ranchordas, Elisa Giuliani, Gaétan de Rassenfosse, and Emilio J Castilla – the PDW aims at sharing insights …

This summer school is part of the MIT-UNIPI project (“Ecological Macroeconomics for a Resilient & Inclusive Post-Covid Transition”) and it is organized in collaboration with Prof. Nicholas A. Ashford (MIT School of Engineering, Cambridge, US) and Prof. Ralph Hall (Virginia …

Elisa Giuliani and Gianluca Biggi will be speakers at the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography. The conference will cover the topic “Territorial Development: Evolution, Innovation, Disruption and Marginalisation under the Anthropocene and the Fourth Industrial Revolution” by addressing the …

Prende il via il Festival Internazionale dell’Economia, diretto da Tito Boeri, progettato e organizzato dagli Editori Laterza, con la collaborazione della Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto. L’evento, che si terrà a Torino da martedì 31 maggio a sabato 4 giugno 2022 …

Come facciamo a realizzare una società sostenibile in grado di coniugare la prosperità di tutte e tutti con i vincoli planetari? Attraverso l’analisi degli effetti di politiche sociali e ambientali, il progetto Ecoesione ha proposto una visione sistemica che partendo …

REMARC will host the workshop “Zooming in chemical and pharmaceutical patent content: Frontier methods and data” organized with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and ESMT Berlin. The workshop aims at discussing the use and the main databases for patent analysis in the …

Global patterns of business responsibility and government complicity in Environmental Rights-based Socio-Environmental Conflicts. A quali-quantitative analysis. Chiara Certomà (University of Turin)  & Federico Martellozzo (University of Florence) Presentation based on a paper by Chiara Certomà, Federico Martellozzo, Stefania Benetti, Roberta Gemmiti …

REMARC will host the first Building REsponsibility And Developing Innovative Strategies for Tackling Food Waste (BREAD) Project Workshop in Pisa.   The Workshop hosts the following Keynote Speakers: Ludovica Pincipato (Univ. Roma Tre) Exploring the potential of Artificial Intelligence Tools …

L’Unione Industriale Pisana, in occasione del suo centenario, organizza un seminario dal titolo Mettere in pratica la sostenibilità ambientale nelle aziende. La sostenibilità è un elemento chiave per le aziende che si declina in molti aspetti dell’attività aziendale. Produrre consumando …

It is our pleasure to co-organize this seminar jointly with University of Pavia. Professor Raphie Kaplinsky (Honorary Professor at the Science Policy Research Unit University of Sussex and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex and …

Daria Denti (London School of Economics & Gran Sasso Science Institute) will be the speaker of the seminar “The Councilwoman’s Tale. Countering Intimate Partner Homicides by electing women in local councils”.  The event will take place on the 28th of …

Reminder to sign up for the Earth Day events organized by PhD SDC candidates! On April 22nd, an online event will feature speakers from around the world. Learn more about life on Earth (and from space) in the comfort of …

Guest Lecture Flaviano Bianchini (Source International) will talk about Business & Human Rights in the real world – Part 2.  The lecture is in a blended format, and will take place on the 14th of April CET in Room 1 …

Guest Lecture Flaviano Bianchini (Source International) will talk about Business & Human Rights in the real world The lecture is in a blended format, and will take place on the 14th of April CET in Room 1 at the Department …

Elisa Giuliani seminar on Business and Human Rights at IDS. In 2022, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been ranked first in the world for development studies  for six years in a row. Along with an overview of REMARC …

Anabel Marin (Institute of Development Studies) will be the speaker of the seminar “Minerals: the dark side of energy transitions”. The seminar will be in a blended form: it will take place in room Q1 (Nuovo Polo Piagge) as well …

Khadija van der Straaten (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) will present the paper “Understanding the role of the Multinational Enterprise in addressing inequality”, co-authored Rajneesh Narula (Henley Business School, University of Reading) and Elisa Giuliani (REMARC, University of Pisa). Abstract …

Arianna Martinelli and Giulia Rossello (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) will be the speakers of the seminar “Is The Party Over? Academic Values and Contract Breach, Survey Evidence on the Use of Sci-Hub”. The event will take place in a blended format …

The Inclusive Digital Model (IDMODEL) Concluding Conference will take place on Friday 25th February from 10.30-13.30 CET.  The projects’ core objectives is to enable marginalised people in developing countries to generate income and empower themselves using a digital platform. The project …

Margarita Leib (University of Amsterdam) will be the speaker of the Remarc seminar “Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-generated and Human-written Advice Shape (Dis)honesty”. The event will take place on Thursday 3rd February at 14. Click here to join the meeting.

Venerdì 28 gennaio 2022, dalle 9 alle 12.30 si terrà l’inaugurazione del Master di II livello in Sviluppo Sostenibile e Cambiamento Climatico dell’Università di Pisa. Elisa Giuliani (REMARC) terrà la Mini-lection magistrale su “Green Washing: cosa è e come difendersi …

Sofia Belardinelli, PhD Student in Bioethics, University of Naples “Federico II”, will be the speaker of the Remarc Seminar The Economics of Biodiversity. The human-nature relationship in the Dasgupta Review. In The Economics of Biodiversity, Sir P. Dasgupta addresses some of the …

January 20th will take place the DEM – REMARC Seminar: “Individual behaviors and the Covid-19 epidemics: Prevention, public policies and inequalities”. The seminar speakers will be Cécile Aubert (Toulouse School of Economics). The speaker will discuss several pieces of ongoing work …

There is an open discussion and active debate as to whether and under what conditions multinationals make meaningful contributions to sustainable development. The Covid-19 pandemic has made this issue even more salient, as multinationals face great uncertainty about their future …

To celebrate Human Rights Day 2021, Bath’s Centre for Business, Organisations and Society and the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights are hosting an event to explore business and human rights. Ten years ago the Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on …

December 9th will take place the REMARC Seminar: “Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and towards Sustainability”. The seminar speakers will be Nicholas A. Ashford (MIT Sloan School) e Ralph Hall (Virgina Tech) that will present their paper. The …

Simone D’Alessandro (University of Pisa, REMARC) will talk about “Alternatives to green growth in today’s spaceship earth” in the Conference “How Future- Fit is our Economic Growth Model?” hosted by the University of Bolzano. During the conference, scholars from the …

Sono aperte le iscrizioni al nuovo Corso di Alta Formazione “ECOESIONE. Strumenti per promuovere la giustizia sociale nella transizione ecologica”. Il corso affronta in prospettiva interdisciplinare la crisi climatica e la transizione ecologica, con particolare attenzione alle dimensioni sociali, economiche, …

Elisa Giuliani, direttrice del centro REMARC e docente di Economia e gestione delle imprese all’Università di Pisa, interverrà all’inaugurazione del primo anno accademico del dottorato nazionale in Sviluppo sostenibile e cambiamento climatico. Istituzioni accademiche e di ricerca di tutta Italia uniscono le competenze in …

Lunedì 22 novembre alle 17, Simone D’Alessandro, Docente in Economia politica, Università di Pisa, interverrà al webinar a cura di Imt e Lucca Learning Cities Unesco su “Giochi per la sostenibilità”, con l’obiettivo di esaminare le potenzialità del game-based learning …

Venerdì 12 novembre 2021 dalle 10.30 alle 12.00 all’interno del corso di “Economia dei servizi pubblici e dei settori regolamentati”, il dottor Raphael Rossi, amministratore unico di AAMPS Spa, terrà il seminario dal titolo: “Corruzione e legalità nella gestione dei …

Venerdì 12 novembre dalle 12.15 alle 12.45 all’interno del corso di Corporate governance, interverrà il dottor Giovanni Giaretti, dell’Organismo Monocratico di Vigilanza dell’Azienda Ambientale Pubblico Servizio Spa, che terrà un seminario dal titolo: “Governance di aziende pubbliche e controlli in …

Venerdì 5 novembre, dalle 10 alle 13, Elisa Giuliani, direttrice del Centro Remarc, interverrà alla giornata organizzata da CNEL in cui verrà presentato da Cgil, Cisl, Uil il documento unitario sulla Conferenza sul futuro dell’ Europa: “Costruire un’Europa del lavoro, …

Worsening climate change and a disorderly transition to a low-carbon economy introduce new sources of risk for countries’ sustainable development. In order to strengthen fiscal and financial risk management, it is crucial to understand through which channels climate risks can …

World Development under Monopoly Capitalism: Reflections on the World Bank’s ‘Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains’. The World Development Report 2020 asserts that global value chains (GVCs) raise productivity and incomes, create better jobs and reduce …

Mercoledì 27 ottobre, gli studenti dell’Università di Pisa incontreranno le imprese per discutere di un tema sempre più dibattuto nella letteratura scientifica e non solo: quello dello spreco alimentare. L’evento, organizzato da REMARC, si terrà al Polo Didattico delle Piagge a …

RESINNREG webinar series The PhD programme in Responsible Innovation and Regional Development invites to an open webinar series on industry-, green- and public innovation. The purpose of the seminar series is to offer a platform to present and discuss cutting-edge …

Urban Future lecture series Program for the Urban Future lecture series Term 1 (2021) Elisa Giuliani  external link, REMARC, University of Pisa “The geography of toxic inventions” Thursday, October 14, 11:30 to 13:00 Room: PANGEA, Budapestlaan 4a-b Link to the webpage.

Lunedì 11 ottobre, dalle 16:15 alle 18:00 nell’Aula D1 di Palazzo Carità via Paoli 15 e sulla piattaforma Microsoft Teams (Attività seminariali 877ZW) nell’ambito dei seminari dei corsi di laurea in Scienze per la Pace e del Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per la Pace …

L’evento “Toscana 2030: la sfida degli scali aeroportuali”, si svolgerà giovedì 7 ottobre 2021, dalle ore 15.00 alle ore 18.00, nell’Aula Magna Storica del Palazzo La Sapienza dell’Università di Pisa. Parteciperanno all’evento come relatori Paolo Maria Mancarella (Rettore Università di …

Lunedì 27 settembre, alle ore 10, presso l’Aula Magna Nuova de La Sapienza, avrà luogo il seminario “Riviste predatorie: come riconoscerle e contrastarle”. Le riviste predatorie fingono di utilizzare standard scientifici, ma non effettuano alcuna valutazione degli articoli che pubblicano e …

“Il Palco della Ricerca” Piazza XX Settembre, Pisa In presenza e diretta streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGoZstGmFzs Ore 17.00 Clima, ambiente, economia sostenibile Unipi: Elisa Giuliani Scuola Sant’Anna: Francesco Lamperti INGV: Tomaso Esposti Ongaro SNS Lorenzo Bartalesi INFN e EGO-Virgo: Valerio Boschi Evento …

REMARC is part of the Network for Business Sustainability and this year we joined the 2021 Sustainability Centres Community Workshop: Designing the Business Sustainability Centre of the Future. Workshop Vision The 2021 SCC Workshop will engage leaders in imagining and operationalizing a …

How can we provide a good life for all within planetary boundaries? A recent article in Nature Sustainability (O’Neill, 2018) argues that “No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource …

Il 9 luglio 2021, alle ore 9,30, presso il  Polo didattico delle Piagge dell’Università di Pisa, il progetto Ecoesione svolgerà un workshop di ricerca partecipata. Questo si pone due principali finalità. La prima è restituire agli attori già coinvolti nella prima fase …

AISRe – Summer School 2021 “The sources of regional productivity: agglomeration, institutions and technology” Padova, 6-9 July 2021 Local Organizing Committee: Roberto Antonietti, Giulio Cainelli, Roberto Ganau Venue: ROOM 12 – “Marco Fanno” Department of Economics and Management, University of …

Tiziano Distefano  will present his paper: “Regional water-food-labour nexus in Colombia” at the International Online Joint Conference of the International Degrowth Research Networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics, and the European Society for Ecological Economics, hosted by University of …

E-16 – The Political Economy of Local Development in the Semiperiphery – II: Path Dependence and Change in Shared Understandings That Underpin Development Saturday, July 3, 2021 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Description What socio-political conditions are conducive to sustainable …

DO THE UNITED NATIONS’ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS MATTER TO MULTINATIONALS? Session format: Pro and con debate (The Oxford Union style) Abstract: Whether the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help multinationals shape their contribution to tackling global grand challenges in …

IB, climate change and the energy transition This panel is part of the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting   ABSTRACT This panel will introduce and discuss key issues related to IB, climate change and the energy transition, and includes …

5th Edition | June 14-18, 2021 | Online edition In its fifth edition, the summer school aims at the development of ideas that promote a more sustainable future by bringing together young scholars from all over the world to discuss …

June, 3-4, 2021, GSSI-Virtual Premises The RSAI-GSSI Virtual Workshop on “Regions in-between the green transition and the digital transformation” is organized by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Social Sciences Unit, in cooperation with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) …

During the EU Green Week Partners, the LOCOMOTION project will host the webinar Net zero emissions ≠ zero pollution: Inconvenient (pollution) truths about the green energy supply chain. Register here. About the event There is no doubt that we need a large-scale …

The Business & Society course of the UNIPI-Sant’Anna Master of Science in Economics has launched a series of debate seminars to talk about contentious issues on several sustainability hot topics. The debates will be introduced by a moderator, and consist …

The Business & Society course of the UNIPI-Sant’Anna Master of Science in Economics has launched a series of debate seminars to talk about contentious issues on several sustainability hot topics. The debates will be introduced by a moderator, and consist …

  Title of the presentation: Patent Toxicity Abstract of the presentation: A toxic-free world is one of the goals of the European Green Deal and a key objective of the World Health Organization Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of …

The Business & Society course of the UNIPI-Sant’Anna Master of Science in Economics has launched a series of debate seminars to talk about contentious issues on several sustainability hot topics. The debates will be introduced by a moderator, and consist …

The State of the Union 2011-2020: a decade of high-level reflection, transnational debate and connection building The State of the Union (SOU) is an annual summit for high level reflection on the European Union which acts as a bridge between …

The Business & Society course of the UNIPI-Sant’Anna Master of Science in Economics has launched a series of debate seminars to talk about contentious issues on several sustainability hot topics. The debates will be introduced by a moderator, and consist …

We have the honor and pleasure to host Giuseppe Bivona from Bluebell Capital Partners. The title of the presentation is “Bluebell Capital Partners:  the unconventional approach of an activist investor to ESG.” Bluebell Capital Partners is a long term investor …

Flaviano Bianchini from Source International will give a seminar on “Business and Human Rights in the real world”. What has the real practice to say about business and human rights? What is the on-the-ground reality, and to what extent do …

Adrián Saldarriaga-Isaza is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the National University of Colombia, in the city of Medellín. He holds a MSc in Environmental Economics and a Ph.D. in Engineering. He has been a visiting …

Seminar “Living in a poisonous world. The geography of inventions in the pesticide industry” Presenter: ELISA GIULIANI, University of Pisa The virtual talk will be open to the public attendance and streamed via Zoom. The seminar hosted by GSSI Social …

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness of the strong connections between environment, health and economic dimensions. The “one health” concept defined by the World Health Organisation implies that policy measures need to consider interdependences and effects of choices on these …

Seminar “Patent Toxicity”  at the University of  Milano Bicocca Elisa Giuliani presents her co-authored paper “Patent Toxicity”, which assesses the potential toxicity of chemical patents. The paper is available as a LEM Working Paper: http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2020-33.pdf The paper suggests that “because there is …

Seminar “Patent Toxicity”  at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, LEI BRIK, University of Torino Elisa Giuliani presents her co-authored paper “Patent Toxicity”, which assesses the potential toxicity of chemical patents. The paper is available as a LEM Working Paper: http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2020-33.pdf The paper suggests …

Seminar “Patent Toxicity”  at the University of Manchester Comparative and International Business Seminar Elisa Giuliani presents her co-authored paper “Patent Toxicity”, which assesses the potential toxicity of chemical patents. The paper is available as a LEM Working Paper: http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2020-33.pdf The paper suggests …

Anselm Schneider (Stockholm University)’s research lies in the interface of organization theory and political science. He is interested in the ways in which business firms influence society and the natural environment, and how these influences feed back to organizations. He …

Irene Monasterolo (Boston University; Vienna University of Economics and Business) will present the paper “On the dependence of investor’s probability of default on climate transition scenarios“, co-authored with Stefano Battiston. Abstract Climate risk brings about a new type of financial …

EIBA Critical Perspectives on International Business Workshop: “Societally Engaged International Business: Taking Stock and Moving Forward” Elisa Giuliani discusses what it means to rethink capitalism and how the IB community can connect with ongoing conversations in economics and other disciplines …

46th Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA)  10-12 December 202o  The event is restricted to conference participants. More news about the conferences are available here. The Panel “Critical Perspectives in Global Value Chains” is scheduled on the 11th …

Banque de France is co-organizing again with Institute Louise Bachelier the conference on “Green Finance Research Advances”. The conference is the 5th edition of a yearly event co-organized by Institut Louis Bachelier and Banque de France, with the participation of Finance …

Gianluca Biggi and Andre’ Cieplinski will be participating in the EU-Spri Mini Course. The course aims at providing doctoral students, early-career researchers and professionals with an intensive training, focused on the intersection between innovation theory and scenario analysis. Six lectures will …

Seminar “Patent Toxicity”  Elisa Giuliani presents her co-authored paper “Patent Toxicity” in the CIRCLE- University of Lund Seminar Series. The paper is co-authored with Gianluca Biggi & Arianna Martinelli and suggests that “because there is significant global fragmentation and ambiguity …

“Crescita economica e tumori polmonari: evidenze empiriche”  “Il tema dell’ambiente non è (solo) l’albero” ma l’incidenza di morti premature (per cancro) causata dall’esposizione a particolati fini. Luzzati e Parenti presentano il loro articolo, pubblicato nel 2018 su Ecological Economics, che …

Seminar “Patent Toxicity”  at the Department of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Elisa Giuliani presents her co-authored paper “Patent Toxicity”, which assesses the potential toxicity of chemical patents. The paper is available as a LEM Working Paper: http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2020-33.pdf The paper …

Seminar “Patent Toxicity”  Gianluca Biggi & Elisa Giuliani presented their co-authored paper “Patent Toxicity” in the UNU-MERIT Seminar Series. In the paper they try to measure the potential toxicity of chemical patents. We think this work can contribute to the …

Central bank governance and adoption of green prudential regulations in the age of climate uncertainty By using the most recent available data on “green” central banks, we conduct an empirical study to analyze the extent the monetary policy should get …

L’Agenda 2030 dell’Onu per lo sviluppo sostenibile; un piano d’azione per le persone, il Pianeta e la prosperità. È ‘Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile, sottoscritta il 25 settembre 2015 da 193 Paesi delle Nazioni unite, tra cui l’Italia, per …

Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains Stefano Ponte is Professor at the Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS) of the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. His work is about transnational economic and environmental governance, …

The Dark Sides of Innovation Elisa Giuliani gives a seminar during the Digital PhD course “Dark sides of innovation” organized by TIK, University of Oslo. Her seminar “Companies love innovation, but does the planet love it too?” discusses the notion of harmful …

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, …