Keynote speech: Walden Bello (University of Philippines Diliman, waldenbello@yahoo.com), The Capitalist Conjecture: Overaccumulation, Financial Crises, and the Retreat from Globalization.

Corporate Responsibility: Basic Issues

Eric Palmer (Allegheny College, USA, epalmer@allegheny.edu) Corporate Responsibility and Freedom.

Loke Min Foo (Glasgow Caledonian University, U.K., Foo.LokeMin@gcal.ac.uk), Third Way CR vs. Third World CR: In What Way Should Responsible Corporations Serve the World?

Regulation and Conflict of Interest

Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis (Monmouth University, USA, galexis@monmouth.edu) Making Offshore Labor Practices In-House Business: The Sarbanes-Oxley Incentive for Activist Corporate Boards.

Asolo Adeyeye Adewole (West African Business Ethics Institute and Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Nigeria, asoloadeyeye@canoemail.com. asoloaaa@yahoo.co.uk), Nelson Olly Ndubuisi  (Monash University, Malaysia), and Ibraheem Akeem Babatunde (West African Network on Business Ethics, Ilaro, Nigeria, Corporate Social Responsibility, Self-Regulation and the Problems of Unethical Business Practices in Africa: The Challenge of Establishing United Nations Global Business Regulatory Agency (UNGBRA).

Daylian Cain (presenting author, Harvard University, USA, cain@fas.harvard.edu), George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Don Moore (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest.

Environmental Issues

Silvia King (presenting author, Southern Company, Atlanta, USA, smking@southernco.com) and Chris Miller (Southern Company, Atlanta, USA) Southern Company: “A Citizen Wherever We Serve”—A Case Study in Corporate Responsibility Leadership

Xiaodi Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Ying Hua (presenter, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, yhua@andrew.cmu.edu), Case Study of Lafarge China and Shui On Cement: Emission-related CSR in Chinese Cement Industry

Health Issues

Betty Dee Makani-Lim (Presenting author, Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School of Business, Health Unit, Philippines, bmakani.lim@gmail.com) and Felix Chan Lim (School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, felixchanlim@gmail.com), Corporate Responsibility as a Strategic Element in the Systemic Approach to Sustainable Community Health Care.

Douglas K. Peterson (Business without Borders, Princeton, NJ, USA, drdoug3@yahoo.com) Toward a Theory of Partner Selection for Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts: The Case of Choosing Partners for HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases of Poverty. 

David Rygl (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, David.Rygl@wiso.uni-erlangen.de), Marcus G. Kittler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), and Carina Friedmann (presenter, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, carina.friedmann@gmail.com), Fighting HIV/AIDS: The Role of the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Sustainability of its Actions in Sub-Sahara Africa—An Empirical Investigation.
 
Ethical Consumerism

Patrice Auger (presenting author, Melbourne Business School, Australia, p.auger@mbs.edu), Timothy Devinney (University of New South Wales, Australia, t.devinney@agsm.edu.au) and Jordan Louviere (University of Technology, Australia) Measuring the Importance of Ethical Consumerism: A Multi-Country Empirical Investigation.

CSR in Developing Countries

Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University, USA, ncapaldi@mindspring.com; presented by Peter Madsen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, pm2n@andrew.cmu.edu) CSR in Developing Countries in a Global Market Economy.

Runa Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, runa@iitk.ac.in) Policy Approaches to Induce Corporate Social Responsibility in Public and Private Sector Firms in Developing Countries. 

Jeanne M. Logsdon (presenting author, University of New Mexico, USA, logsdon@mgt.unm.edu) and Harry J. Van Buren III (University of New Mexico, USA), National Styles of Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring Macro Influences on Responsible Business Behavior

Eastern European Issues

Irina Soboleva (Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, irasobol@yahoo.com) Corporate Social Responsibility in Russia: Peculiarities And Problems.

Vladimir Petkoski (University of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia, vpetkoski@eccf.ukim.edu.mk), From International Corporate Responsibility to Local CSR: Empirical Evidence from Macedonia.

East Asian Issues

John F. Hulpke (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, hulpke@ust.hk), Cubie Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China), Liu Goggin (presenting author, University College Dublin, Ireland, liu.goggin@ucd.ie), and Aidan Kelly (University College Dublin, Ireland), Good Guanxi, Bad Guanxi? Drawing the Line. 

Stephen Yan-Leung Cheung (City University of Hong Kong, China), J. Thomas Connelly (Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Piman Limpaphayom (presenting author, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, piman.limpaphayom@sasin.edu) Determinants of Corporate Disclosure and Transparency: Evidence from Hong Kong and Thailand.

Maria Lai-Ling Lam (Malone College, USA mlam@malone.edu), A Study of the Transfer of Corporate Social Responsibility from Multinational Companies to Chinese Subsidiaries.

Jacob Park (Green Mountain College, USA, parkj@greenmtn.edu), Social and Environmental Management Challenges Arising from China’s Rapid Industrialization: Risks and Opportunities for Business.

Junwei Shi (presenter, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, jeavay_shi@sina.com), Haiyan Fu (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China), and Lijun Hu (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China), Social Responsibility, Social Capital and Corporate Sustaining Advantage in Transitional China.

African Issues

Rama B. Rao (National University of Rwanda, rsvpn1@yahoo.com) Good Corporate Governance Initiative to Ensure Corporate Social Responsibility: A Study of the State of the Art in Rwanda.

Elbe M. Kloppers (North-West University, South Africa, komemk@puk.ac.za) and Henk J. Kloppers (North-West University, South Africa, DRTHJK@puknet.puk.ac.za) Skills Development as Part of CSR: A South African Perspective.