March 4
Assurance and Reporting: Standards and Tools
A workshop arranged by the Centre for Corporate Citizenship (BI), Accountability, UK and Det Norske Veritas (DNV).
Main speaker: Simon Zadek
Location: BI Ekeberg
Participants: 38
May 27
Workshop on CSR in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Systems - Supply-chain and Stakeholder Issues
The workshop brought petroleum companies together with their contractors/suppliers to explore how CSR could be furthered throughout the value chain by identifying issues, obstacles to be overcome and opportunities to be gained.
This workshop was linked to the TRENDS project
Location: Høvik/ Det Norske Veritas
Participants: 30
June 10
The Global Corporate Governance Forum
Co arrangers with the World Bank, Veritas, and the Foundation for Business and Society of which held a stakeholder meeting in Oslo.
Location: BI Ekeberg
Participants: 20
June 11
Expert Dialogue on Integration of Reporting and SRI
The Forum was followed by an expert dialogue to discuss with the private sector, financial institutions, and NGO’s how to encourage better corporate governance.
Location: BI Sandvika
Participants: 20
June 20
Workshop on Corporate Governance
Under the Eben Business Ethics Conference in Oslo. The workshop raised general issues of corporate governance and specifically targeted reporting and information systems that could move the corporate governance forward.
Location: BI Schous Plass
Participants: 50
August 14-16
Track/workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility
Under the 17th Nordic Conference on Business Studies in Reykjavik arranged by the Scandinavian Academy of management.
Convenors:
Atle Midttun, Norwegian School of Management BI, Norway
Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden
The track/ workshop was the first in its kind in the Scandinavian Academy. It gathered around 30 participants with papers and fostered interesting discussions and reflections. The track also served to establish new ties between Nordic academics in this field.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Corporate Governance.
Location: Reykjavik
Participants: 30
September 19-20
Track on the policy framework of CSR
Under the European Academy of Business in Society’s 2nd meeting in Copenhagen
Track Chair: Atle Midttun and with participation also from Jan Olaf Willums
The track gathered around 30 scholars and policy makers, including representatives of the EU commission and the European Parliament for a debate around governance and CSR.
Selected papers will be published in the afore mentioned special issue of Journal of Corporate Governance
Location: Copenhagen
Participants: 30
November 13
The Corporate Social Responsibility of Energy Industry- Perspectives and Challenges
Co-arranged with Centre for Energy and Environment (BI) and the Nord Pool.
The seminar attracted 35 Nordic energy firms, representatives from the association for energy industry, the regulator (NVE) and the Council for consumer affairs.
CSR issues were hotly debated against the experience of last winter’s price hikes.
A viewpoint article is planned for Energy Policy
Location: BI Ekeberg
Participants 35
November 24-25
Parallel Session on the role of Government in CSR at the National Conference on CSR in Trondheim
Co-arranged by CCC/Atle Midttun and Veritas/ Peter Vilsted.
The Session was by far the largest of the 3 workshops, with around 60-70 people attending and raised heated debate between government representatives, NGO’s and industry.
Heidi Høyvik from BI’s Centre for Business Ethics also had a plenary presentation at the Trondheim conference.
Location: Trondheim
Participants: 60-70
