Corporate Social Responsibility

Panel - Defining CSR

Chair: Marian Chertow, Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program (IEM), Associate Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

David Vogel, Solomon P. Lee Distinguished Professorship in Business Ethics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, "Civil Regulation and Global Economic Governance"

Ben Cashore, Professor, Environmental Policy and Governance, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, "CSR - A Private Sector Hard Law"

David Levy, Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Massachusetts, and Rami Kaplan, PhD candidate, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, "CSR as a Mode of Global Governance"

Errol Meidinger, Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Corporate Social Responsibility and Democracy"

Response: Jonathan Koppell, Director, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, and Associate Professor, Yale School of Management.

Panel A: Does CSR Make a Difference

Chair: Ben Cashore, Professor, Environmental Policy and Governance, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Ralph Espach, Research Analyst, CNA Corporation, "Where Does Global Greening Take Root? Private Environmental Standards Regimes in Argentina and Brazil"

Jennifer Biringer, Senior Advisor, SustainAbility, Inc., "From Corporate Social Responsibility to Scalable Solutions"

Lawrence Busch, University Distinguished Professor, Director, Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University, "From Pareto Optimality to Corporate Social Responsibility: How Supply Chain Management is Changing Our Notion of Social Welfare"

Response: Sasha Courville, Executive Director, ISEAL Alliance

Panel B: Comparative CSR

Chair: Graeme Auld, Doctoral Student, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Monica Araya, Consultant, Environmental & Globalization Division of the Environmental Directorate, OECD, "Comparative CSR with Emphasis on South"

Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Associate Professor, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration - EBAPE, Getulio Vargas Foundation, "Understanding 'Social Upgrading' of Clusters and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries"

Dirk Matten, Hewlett Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, "'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility"

Response: Motoko Aizawa, Head, Policy and Standards Unit, International Finance Corporation

Panel A: Rules and Standards in Practice (1)

Chair: Nathaniel Keohane, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management

Madhu Khanna, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Effectiveness of Corporate Voluntary Environmental Initiatives"

Petra Christmann, Assistant Professor, Management & Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, "International Certifiable Standards as Tools for Self-Regulation in the Global Economy: Prospects and Limitations of ISO 14001"

Michael Lenox, Associate Professor of Business, Fuqua School, Duke University, "The Prospects for Industry Self Regulation of Environmental Externalities"

Response: Robert Colson, Partner, Institutional Acceptance, Grant Thornton LLP

Panel B: Why Does Business Engage CSR (1)

Chair: Anastasia O'Rourke, Doctoral Student, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

David Baron, David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy and Strategy, Stanford Graduate School of Business, "Corporate Social Performance: Framework and Research Agenda"

Michael Conroy, Former Program Director for Global Governance, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, "From Virtue to Moral Liability: How 20th Century 'Corporate Social Responsibility' has Become 21st Century 'Corporate Social and Environmental Accountability'"

Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University, "How Does Corporate Social Responsibility Fit Into and Overall Understanding of How the Market Economy Works"

Response: Gregor Barnum, Director of Corporate Consciousness, Seventh Generation

Panel A: Rules and Standards in Practice (2)

Chair: Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Co-Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Jennifer Clapp, CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, "Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in the Agricultural Input Industry: Governance Dilemmas Over Illegal GMO Releases"

John W. Maxwell, Associate Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, "Informational Issues of CSR Actions"

Ken Cousins, Faculty Research Assistant, Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland, "Information in Market-Driven Environmental Policy: Scale and the Limits of Global Markets"

Matthew Potoski, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Iowa State University, "Green Clubs and Architecture of Voluntary Programs"

Response: Sheila M. Olmstead, Assistant Professor Environmental Economics, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Panel B: Why Does Business Engage in CSR (2)

Chair: Reid Lifset, Associate Research Scholar, Residential Fellow in Industrial Ecology, Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology

Andrew King, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: An Institutional Explanation of Industry Self-Regulation"

Thomas Lyon, Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology & Commerce, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, "Corporate Environmentalism - Why Does it Happen?"

Robert Repetto, Yale Professor in the Practice of Economics & Sustainable Development, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Public Policy Arena"

Response: Emma Stewart, Acting Director of Research and Development, Businesses for Social Responsibility

6:50-8:00 AM

Shuttle from New Haven Hotel to GM Room, 55 Hillhouse Avenue

Panel A: How Firms Manage CSR

Chair: Bradford Gentry, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Investments and Research Scholar, Co-Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Director of the Research Program on Private Investment and the Environment

Magali Delmas, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, "Collective Corporate Political Activity: Are Late Joiners the Free Riders?"

Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Assistant Professor, Department of Organizational Behavior, School of Management, Boston University, "Corporate Social Responsibility and Managerial Decision Making"

Charlene Zietsma, Assistant Professor, General Management (Strategy) and the Donald G. and Elizabeth R. Ness Estate Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, "Contests Among Signals of Legitimacy in Uncertain Institutional Environments"

Response: Harris Gleckman, Principal, Benchmark Environmental Consulting

Panel B: Emergence of Rules

Chair: Tim Buthe, Department of Political Science, Duke University

Timothy Bartley, Fellow, Center for Globalization and Governance, and Assistant Professor, Indiana University at Bloomington, "CSR and Transitional Private Regulation of Labor and the Environment: A Political-Institutional Perspective"

Claire Cutler, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, "Bilateral Investment Treaties, CSR, and Africa"

Karsten Ronit, Associate Professor, Institut for Staskundskab, University of Copenhagen, "Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Outside Participation"

JoAnn Carmin, Charles and Anne Spaulding Associate Professor of Environmental and Policy Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Identifying New Approaches to Participatory Processes, Locally-Based Agreements, and Certification Programs: Lessons from Gold Mine Projects in Eastern Europe"

Response: Michael Conroy, Former Program Director of Global Governance, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

CSR and the Corporation in Society

Chair: Jonathan Koppell, Director, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, and Associate Professor, Yale School of Management

Steven Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, "Global Social Structure, Legitimacy, and CSR"

Aseem Prakash, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington-Seattle, "The Institutional Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility"

Kenneth Abbott, Associate Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, "The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards, Institutions, and the Shadow of the State"

Duncan Snidal, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, "The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards, Institutions, and the Shadow of the State"

Response: Gene Kahn, Vice President, General Mills Sustainability Council

Future Directions and Concluding Comments