GT01_00 – Business for Society General Track

The B4S General Track examines how and under what conditions businesses can contribute to society, aligning with the EURAM 2025 theme, “Managing with Purpose,” which prioritizes purpose over profit. The track traditionally focuses on how organizations and management education can address societal challenges, encouraging a shift from profit-driven to purpose-driven models. With an interdisciplinary approach drawing from economics, political science, sociology, and history, the GT fosters dialogue on the B4S connection from a well-being perspective. It welcomes studies on how, why, and under what conditions businesses can act for society, including topics not covered by other B4S tracks.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 14: Life below water; Goal 15: Life on land; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Primary Contact

Lucia Michela Daniele – luciamichela.daniele@unicampania.it

ST01_01/ST02_01 – Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law & Purpose (B4S & CoGo SIGs)

In the face of current global challenges, there is an urgent need to design institutional and legal governance frameworks that facilitate a transition towards sustainable, responsible and purposeful corporate practices. What are the principles of governance, the institutional conditions or legal frameworks that enable corporations to better manage sustainability-related matters and responsible innovation? We invite contributions that further our understanding of responsible corporations from various angles: theoretical or comparative approaches to corporate governance; recent institutional developments in sustainable finance or in corporate law, such as purpose-driven corporations; alternative and emerging forms of business organizations; and innovative reporting regimes.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Primary Contact

Kevin Levillain – kevin.levillain@mines-paristech.fr

ST01_02 – Performance measurement and management for sustainability

Measuring sustainability performance plays a central role in implementing sustainability strategy and developing relationships with stakeholders. It implies to adopt mechanisms to measure, represent, report and communicate firm’s performance, embracing environmental, social and financial results. A recent stimulus in this direction is the European Directive 2022/2464 on corporate sustainability reporting.

We aim to attract papers which critically review and advance theory, methodology and practice and provide empirical evidence on: 1) sustainability and environmental reporting, integrated reporting, non-financial disclosure, their quality and assurance, and main drivers, 2) management control and performance measurement for sustainability, the role of CFO and the controller.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Primary Contact

Lucrezia Songini – lucrezia.songini@uniupo.it

ST01_03 – Finance and Economy for Society: Financial Inclusion, Governance and Sustainability

The growing pace of financialisation and commodification of the economy has brought to scrutiny the purpose of finance and businesses in society and their role in coping with the grand challenges of the new millennium. The socio-ecological crises of the past decades have highlighted the growing pace of economic inequality, social and financial exclusion thus calling for an inclusive and socially responsible finance and financial literacy to counter inequality through financial and economic empowerment. Building on the 2025 conference theme “Managing with Purpose” this track invites scholarly contributions discussing the role of finance in creating an equitable and sustainable economy.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Primary Contact

Sharam Alijani – sharam.alijani@neoma-bs.fr

ST01_05 – Philosophy for business ethics

The topic aims to collect any kind of study that successfully applies and adopts philosophical paradigms to explain, interpret, and impact ethical behaviours in management and business. We are looking for novel or established approaches to create synergies between philosophical studies and managerial disciplines. Both in terms of theoretical paradigms and methods of analysis employed, we are open to a broad range of elements: Virtue Ethics, Consequential and Non-consequential Ethics, Marxist and Gramscian Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, CSR, Sustainability and Business Ethics, Corporate Misconduct and Corporate Political Activity, Ethics of Care, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Business Ethics.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Primary Contact

Guglielmo Faldetta – guglielmo.faldetta@unikore.it

ST01_08 – Arts & Philosophy for Business and Society

This track aims at providing an open, inclusive and rigorous forum to investigate how management scholars can learn from millennial knowledge of arts and philosophy. We also contribute to the fine-grained understanding of management practices of thriving artistic, cultural, heritage and creative organizations in a context of growing digitalization of cultural institutions. We invite scholars to consider arts and philosophy not only as objects of management but as also sources from which management could learn. Accordingly, we call for contributions that build from arts management research to explore wider aspects of the relationship between arts, culture, philosophy, business and society.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities

Primary Contact

Domenico Napolitano – domenico.napolitano-ssm@unina.it