Center for
International
Corporate
Responsibility

• First Conference on International Corporate Responsibility, Pittsburgh, 7-9 June 2002, organized by John Hooker and Peter Madsen.  Participants from Australia, Botswana, Canada, China, Macedonia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Africa, UK, and USA. 

• Second Conference on International Corporate Responsibility, Amsterdam, 18-20 June 2004, organized by John Hooker, Ans Kolk, and Peter Madsen.  Participants from Australia, Canada, Colombia, Romania, Germany, India, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, UK, and USA. 

• Third Conference on International Corporate Responsibility, Hong Kong, 22-24 September 2006, organized by John Hooker, John Hulpke, and Peter Madsen.  Participants from Australia, China, Germany, India, Macedonia, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, and USA.

• Fourth Conference on International Corporate Responsibility, Doha, Qatar, 16-18 November 2008, organized by Mohamed Dobashi, John Hooker and Peter Madsen.  Participants from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Spain, USA, and Zambia.

The ICR conferences issued calls for extended abstracts, of which about 30 were selected by a program committee.  The aim of the conferences was to bring together scholars from widely different cultural backgrounds for intense dialog. 

• Ethics and cultural factors track, part of CBI conference, Corporate Evolution:  Looking Inward or Looking Outward? Pittsburgh, October 2003.  Recruited 11 speakers, plus plenary talk on corruption by John Hooker, and talk on global ethics by prominent theologian Hans Küng.

• Teaching Track at European Business Ethics Network Conference, Entschede, Netherlands, 24-26 June, 2004.  Selected papers published in the Journal of Business Ethics Education.

• Forum on Ethics of Intellectual Property, part of CBI conference, Innovation and the Growth of the International Firm, Stuttgart, Germany, 8 September.  Speakers from Belgium, Canada, Japan, United Arab Emirates, and USA.