The 12th International
Conference on Social Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainable Business
Corporate
Social Responsibility, Resilience and Sustainable Places
11 – 12
September 2025, University of Alicante, Spain
At the 12th ICSR conference, we will
discuss the ways in which corporate responsibility and sustainability practices
can be effectively developed and promoted, with a special emphasis on
territorial approaches. Specifically, the theme of this conference aims to discuss
the virtues that localisation can bring to the development of responsible and sustainable
practices by the agents involved. In this sense, it will encourage debate on
the best ways to overcome the barriers to the development of CSR by taking
advantage of the benefits of specialised environments, and the ways in which
localisation can ensure resilience.
From an economic, environmental and social point of
view, corporate sustainability is a requirement for agents involved in business
activity as it is becoming a driving force for competitive advantage.
Companies’ abilities to evolve, anticipate and adapt to and respond to grand
societal challenges, new requirements and environmental changes can reveal
their resilience potential. Resilience also involves the ability to recover
quickly from crises, maintain business continuity, and learn from experiences
to adapt for the future.
Business localisation can play a crucial role in
resilience and sustainability. For example, it can condition access to
resources, suppliers and markets; the environmental impact of the company’s
activity in that specific area; collaboration in environmental and social
initiatives in communities aware of sustainability; regulation and policies on
sustainability; or the vulnerability of certain geographical areas to climate
phenomena. In short, location can influence the resilience capacity and
commitment to sustainability among companies. We therefore invite submissions
that address the intersection of sustainability, resilience and localisation.
Below is an indicative (but not exclusive) list of
possible submission topics:
- Local, regional, national, international clusters
and sustainability
- Networks, resilience and responsible business
- Institutions, regulations and sustainability
- The
role of social businesses in sustainability
- Innovation
and sustainability
- Finance,
resilience and sustainability
- Local
food and sustainability
- Addressing
grand challenges through local solutions
- Quality
and sustainable development
- CSR
practices in SMEs
- Tourism
and sustainability
- Sustainable
city development
- Policy
development for a sustainable economy
- Business
responsibility, resilience and reputation
- SDGs
for a sustainable economy
- Nature
based business and sustainability
- Gender
and sustainability
- Consumer
proximity and CSR performance
Submission of abstracts
Applicants should submit an abstract
of 300 words in a Word document format via email to Dr Georgiana Grigore at
georgiana.grigore@csrconferences.org by 15th of May 2025.
Please add the following information
: (i) full title, (ii) all author names, (iii) affiliations of each author ,
(iv) abstract of the paper, (v) 3-6 keywords of the paper, and (vi)
acknowledgements or disclosure notices (if any). Up to two submissions will be
considered per author. Only the abstracts will be published in the conference
proceedings.
Review process
Acceptance for the conference
presentation will be based on a review of the 300 words abstract. At least two
reviewers will offer feedback on the abstracts.
Publication
Following the conference, attendees
will be invited to submit a full paper to be selected to an edited collection
with ‘Palgrave Studies in Governance, Leadership and Responsibility’.
Further information will be provided regarding the full paper submission.