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Conference: "Governance and Corporate Responsibility in Russia"

The conference will take place at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st, November 2014.

The conference focuses on corporate responsibility challenges that companies face in contemporary Russia. At its core lies the cooperation amongst the state, business and civil society and the need for modern societies to practice horizontal governance in order to address new societal challenges. Horizontal negotiations with business and society provide the state with relevant information. It, thus, raises state capacity to develop solutions tailored to policy challenges and increases the output legitimacy of political decisions. In order to render business operations more environmentally and socially responsible, multinationals, such as retailers, banks and investment funds, promote responsiveness towards stakeholders along their supply chains. Internationally recognized corporate responsibility standards (e.g. Equator Principles, AA 1000, ISO 26000), therefore, also apply to companies in Russia.

The conference facilitates an interdisciplinary exchange of expertise between academics and practitioners from business, state and civil society.

Confirmed panel topics include:

• Business, NGOs, and the state: Co-operative steering of societal challenges; a comparison of Germany and Russia
• Stakeholder Engagement. International Standards – National Cultures
• Corporate Responsibility. Expectations of state and society actors towards business
• Breakout Workshop 1: Supply chain management. The long arm of international corporations
• Breakout Workshop 2: Climate change and environment. State regulation and voluntary environmental protection
• Breakout Workshop 3: Society. Philanthropy as main corporate responsibility obligation in Russia
• What do business, state and civil society actors expect from academia?

The Party Research Institute Dusseldorf (PRuF)
Dr. Johannes Schuhmann
johannes.schuhmann@uni-duesseldorf.de

Phone: +49 211 81 15722