EABIS 6th Annual Colloquium: The Emerging Global Governance
Paradigm: The Role of Business and Its Implications for Companies, Stakeholders and Society

The world’s largest collaborative business-academic conference on corporate responsibility knowledge development and learning in 2007 took place on September 20 and 21 hosted for the first time by ESADE Business School in Barcelona.

The September event examined the contributions, commitments and impacts that business can make through governance to address the key issues and challenges of globalisation and sustainable development.

To develop a picture as comprehensive as possible, critical issues participants approached this theme within a conceptual framework that incorporated the “macro” level of economies and societies, the “meso” level of industry sectors and regions, and the “micro” level of the individual firm.

An audience of 350 senior executives, academic thought leaders and visionary civil society representatives gathered at ESADE to shape the future agenda for business practice, research and education in these vital areas.

The Colloquium aimed to break new ground in exploring whether global governance is an appropriate approach for business and all of its stakeholders to tackle the broad, increasingly facing the planet at the start of the 21st century.

The EABIS PhD Conference took place on September 22, hosted by IESE Business School also in Barcelona.