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Call for paper “CSR and diversity” tracks at

IRMBAM & IAS Joined-up conferences

5-7 July 2017 - Nice, France

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8th IRMBAM Conference 5-6 July 2017

General Track: “CSR, Diversity, Gender and Inclusion”

Yearly focus: “Evaluating CSR and Diversity Policies”

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35ème Université d’été de l’Audit Social (IAS) 6-7 July 2017

Track (in french): “Auditer les démarches RSE et diversité : diagnostic, conduite du changement, étude d’impact”

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IRMBAM Conference

General Track “CSR, Diversity and Inclusion”

The General Track addresses the critical issues of CSR, diversity and inclusion in organizations,

promoting and adopting an interdisciplinary, international and trans-methodological approach. It

hosts innovative papers in English without any methodological restriction (qualitative, quantitative

approach, theoretical approach, mixed-methods are accepted) that could enrich the state of

knowledge and enlighten managerial practices. The General Track will particularly address the

following topics:

1. New challenges of diversity management in the post-modern era,

2. The challenges of inclusion at work including:

Steering, deployment and social audit of the diversity policies in the organizations,

Prevention and conflict management within companies, mediation and “intelligence of negotiation”,

Post-modern companies, new organizational models and new methods of inclusion

3. Social network analysis and relational issues: what are the tools to promote women’s

and minorities’ inclusion?

Focus on sponsoring, mentoring, leadership, peer networks, virtual networks, communities of practices…

Focus on employees’ groups, women’s networks and pro-diversity communities as laboratories of inclusion, organizational agility and innovation,

4. Heuristics of research in organizational management and O.B. issues,

5. Ethics and phenomenology in management and HRM,

6. Trust in the organizations

o Heuristic of confidence in business:

o Examination of the concept of Trust and its implications in organizational sciences

and investigation of the challenges, forms and implications of Trust in and for

Business (mobilizing achievements of sociology and anthropology, as well as political

philosophy, psychology, management sciences and economics...)

o Development of empirically-based or theoretically-oriented typologies of “trust

proofs” in the companies, within and among stakeholders (self-confidence,

intersubjective trust, trust in teams, trust among peers, subordinates, managers, social

partners, shareholders, suppliers, customers, government, financial intermediaries ...),

mapping of “confidence spaces” and of the “sources of the trust” (endogenous or

exogenous to the professional sphere).

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o Identification of empirical foundations, vectors and deeds of trust within the

organizations and teams as well as among stakeholders (identifications of the

organizational acts that stimulate or degrade confidence in companies, towards and

among stakeholders, at the individual, intersubjective, community-based and holistic

levels).

o Investigation of trust levels in organizations and of their impact on growth,

o Exploring the links between trust and economic performance,

o Elaboration of a casuistry of trust in the organizations,

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IRMBAM Conference

Special session “Evaluating CSR and Diversity Policies”

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IAS Conference (in French)

Track : “Auditer les démarches RSE et diversité ”

The International Institute of Social Audit (IAS) and the Chair IPAG “Towards an Inclusive

Company” organize a transdisciplinary and cross-domain critical discussion about auditing CSR

and diversity policies (from a social and a financial standpoint). This subject is topical as, in western

countries, since:

- CSR, professional equality and diversity programs launched by pioneering companies tend to

be so mature and routinized reaching, notably in Anglo-Saxon countries, that they risk to

become inefficient and to exhaust their own promoters.

- at the same time, the CSR craze of followers is slowing down, making them unenthusiastic, if

not reluctant to engage further into social responsibility initiatives. In front of the economic

slowdown coupled with a lasting social crisis and identity tensions, these companies prefer to

focus on what they think their core business is.

In contrast, because of institutional pressures (legal framework, mimetic process, professional

standardization), social initiatives are expanding among SMEs and even more largely in countries

in transition (notably in Maghreb).

We propose to investigate CSR initiatives:

- in their transformational impacts in terms of speech (exchanges between employees, managers

and stakeholders, institutional communication, training and awareness programs, etc.), norms

(rules of the game in organizations, procedures, processes, programs, etc.), and practices

(managerial praxis, organizational behaviors, etc.).

- looking at strategical and phenomenological aspects (cartography of stakeholders, strategic

analysis and decrypting of actors’ play, socio-dynamics decrypting of CSR/diversity policies

implementation; change management perspective),

- focusing on comparative issues (especially multinational cases)

- enjoying transdisciplinary approach, to foster a dialogue between organization and social

sciences and accounting as well as dialogue between social and financial audit, to enlighten

companies’ social challenges and initiatives.

Special attention will be granted to case studies that draw on international comparisons,

longitudinal and/or multi-level investigations and that are fertile ground for evaluative analysis

and impact assessment. The scope of interest is rather broad and spreads from private and

public corporations to public institution and social and solidarity economy companies,

including NGOs, charities and associations

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Scientific Committee

Alain AKANNI, Univ. de Dakar, Sénégal

Boualem ALIOUAT, Univ. de Nice, France

Nehmé AZOURY, Univ. du Saint-Esprit, Kaslik, Liban

Olivier BACHELARD, EM Lyon, France

Michel BARABEL, Univ. de Paris-Est, France

Elie BASBOUS, Univ. Libanaise, Beyrouth, Liban

Adnane BELOUT, Univ. de Montréal, Québec, Canada

Djilali BENABOU, Univ. de Mascara, Algérie

Béchir BENLAHOUEL, Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise , France

Leila BENRAISS, Univ. de Bordeaux, France

Chafik BENTALEB, Univ. de Marrakech, Maroc

Charles-Henri BESSEYRE DES HORTS, HEC Paris, France

Mustapha BETTACHE, Univ. Laval, Québec, Canada

André BOYER, IAE de Nice, France

Luc BOYER, IAS France

Franck BRILLET, Univ. Paris II, France

Maria Giuseppina BRUNA, IPAG Business School, France

Sylvie BRUNET, KEDGE Marseille / CESE, France

Adriana BURLEA-SCIOPERU, Univ. Craiova, Roumanie

Laurent CAPPELLETTI, CNAM, France

Jean-François CHANLAT, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, France

Jean-Luc CERDIN, ESSEC Business School, France

Annie CORNET, HEC Liège, Univ. de Liège, Belgique

Fernando CUEVAS, E.S.C. Pau, France

Patrick DAMBRON, IEAM, Paris, France

Richard DELAYE, Propedia, IGS, France

Marc DELUZET, OSI, France

Luc Frederic DUCRAY, IPAG Business School, France

Michelle DUPORT, Univ. de Montpellier III, France

Jean-Pierre DUMAZERT, ESC La Rochelle, France

Jean-Yves DUYCK, Univ. de La Rochelle, France

Yacine FOUDAD, AASA, Algérie

Corinne FORASACCO, IAS, France

Anne-Marie FRAY, IAS, France

Soufyane FRIMOUSSE, IAE de Corse, France

Sana HENDA, ESC Amiens, France

Roger-Pierre HERMONT, IAS France

Jacques IGALENS, IAE de Toulouse, France

Michel JONQUIERES, Académie de l’Ethique, France

Emmanuel KAMDEM, ESSEC, Douala, Cameroun

Assya KHIAT, Univ. d’Oran, Algérie

Alain LEMPEREUR, Heller School-Brandeis University / Harvard Law School, USA

Hubert LANDIER, IGS, Paris, France

Erick LEROUX, IUT Saint Denis, France Henri MAHE de BOISLANDELLE, Univ. Montpellier Mohamed MATMATI, EM Grenoble, France

Olivier MEIER, Univ. de Paris-Est, France

Samuel MERCIER, Univ. de Bourgogne, France

Nathalie MONTARGOT, ESC La Rochelle, France

Hadj NEKKA, Univ. d'Alger, Algérie

Maria NICULESCU, ESFAM, Sofia, Bulgarie

Duc Khuong NGUYEN, IPAG Business School, France

Emmanuel OKAMBA, Univ. de Paris Est, France

Mustafa ÖZBILGIN, Brunel Business School, Londres, U.K

Jean-Marie PERETTI, ESSEC Business School, France

Yvon PESQUEUX, CNAM-IFSAM, France

Jean Michel PLANE, Univ. de Montpellier III, France

Stéphane RENAUD, Univ. de Montréal, Canada

Doha SAHRAOUI, Univ. Cadi Ayyad, Maroc

Henri SAVALL, Univ. Lyon III, ISEOR, France

Marie-José SCOTTO, IPAG Busines School, Nice, France

François SILVA, KEDGE Paris, France

Aline SCOUARNEC, Univ. de Caen, France

Jean-Paul TCHANKAM, KEDGE Bordeaux, France

Frédéric TEULON, IPAG Business School, France

Maurice THEVENET, FNEGE, France

Marc VALAX, Univ. Lyon III, France

Anne-Marie de VAIVRE, AINF, IAS, France

Delphine VAN HOOREBEKE, Univ. de Toulon, France

Eric VATTEVILLE, ESSCA Angers, France

Catherine VOYNET-FOURBOUL, CIFFOP, Paris II, France

Zahir YANAT, KEDGE Bordeaux, France

Véronique ZARDET, Univ. de Lyon III, ISEOR, France

Scientific Partners

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Cross-participations to the two Conferences are highly desirable.

The 35th ISA convention (francophone congress) and the special session of the IRBAM Conference

(English congress) intend to be spaces at the junction of a plurality of legitimacies (professional

and academic) and standpoints (theoretical and empirical), where one field meets the other, where

discipline boundaries are made porous to allow for the cross-fertilization of knowledge.

Submission of the papers for the IRMBAM Conference to the April 2th 2017.

Web site of the Conference: http://ipag-irm.sciencesconf.org/

Organized by the International Institute for Social Audit (IAS), chaired by Prof. Jean-Marie

PERETTI (Professor of Management at the ESSEC Business School, President of the ESSEC

Chair “Change Management”, Honorary President of the AGRH)

and the Chair « Towards an Inclusive Company » (IPAG -AFMD), chaired by Dr. Maria

Giuseppina BRUNA (Professor in Management at the IPAG Business School; Scientific Director

of the Chair “Towards an Inclusive Company” (IPAG-AFMD), Director of the diversity program,

Ecole des Mines d’Albi-Carmaux).

Contacts :

Dr. Maria Giuseppina Bruna

Scientific Director, Chair « Inclusive Company » (IPAG-AFMD) maria-giuseppina.bruna@ipag.fr

SPECIAL ISSUES

The best papers will be published in the ranked scientific reviews

Questions de Management and Management & Sciences Sociales.

The ranked review RIPCO (Revue international de pyschosociologie et de

gestion des comportements organisationnels) will host a special issue on

driving, implementation and impact assessment of diversity and

equity policies in University and High Schools.

Other international high-ranked journals are supporting the session

and can host the best papers focused on driving, implementation and

impact of diversity policies.