Third Italian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research

Catania, Italy, 17th-18th September 2010

Programme

Thursday 16th September
20.00: Welcome dinner

Friday 17th September
8.30 - 9.00: Registration
9.00 - 9.30: Welcome by the Rector of the University of Catania, the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and the Head of the  Department of Business, Culture and Society
 9.30 - 10.30: Rob H. Gray (University of St Andrews):
 “It was (nearly) 20 years ago today: SGT Pepper, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, Green Accounting and the blue meanies”  with Richard Laughlin (University of London)

10.30 - 11.00: Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.20: Parallel Sessions

12.20 - 13.40: Lunch

13.40 - 14.40:  Gianfranco Rusconi (University of Bergamo):
“A reassessment of the “open model” of social account proposed in the mid 1980s: are some insights still useful for the current social accounting debate?”

14.40 - 15.30  Session on Research Method and Theory in Social Accounting led by Rob Gray

15.30 - 16.00: Coffee Break

16.00 - 18.00: Parallel Sessions

20.15: Social Dinner

Saturday 18th September

 9.00 - 11.00:
Maria G. Baldarelli (University of Bologna):
“ Some drivers to face new challenges in social and environmental accounting research: theory and praxis”
Roger L. Burritt (University of South Australia) - John D. Pisaniello (University of South Australia) - Joanne Tingey-Holyoak (University of South Australia)
“Analysis and application of international dam safety policy benchmarks”
Jeffrey Unerman (University of Manchester) - Brendan O’Dwyer (University of Amsterdam):
“An empirical case study looking at the evolution of risk, opportunity and the business case in embedding connected reporting at BT”

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.50: Parallel Sessions

12.50 - 13.05: Conference closing

13.05 - 14.35: Lunch

Parallel sessions

During the parallel sessions full papers will be introduced. The Parallel Sessions constitute a constructive and useful occasion to present and discuss papers in progress, ideas for future research projects and doctoral theses in progress.
These sessions aim to create an interaction between the authors of the papers and the participants of the conference.
Each presentation has a time slot of 40 minutes. The authors are invited to present their papers in 25 minutes (max.), as such the time for the debate will be 15 minutes long.
The chairs will make sure that the presenters respect the timings given.
The presenters are also kindly asked to prepare their presentations in a PowerPoint (ppt.) 97- 2003 format.

Preliminary Programme
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th 2010 – PARALLEL SESSION I “Social accounting in public sector” Time: 11.00-12.20
ROOMS	SESSION I		SESSION I		CHAIR
Great Hall	11.00-11.40		11.40-12.20		Jeffrey Unerman
	Creating value through   the CSR: the case of a local public transport company		Assessment of Training programs in public sector. Case study of the state of Kuwait
	Agliata Francesco-Caterina Ferrone-Danilo Tuccillo		Adel Dashti
Room B	11.00-11.40		11.40-12.20		Gianfranco Rusconi
	The management of useless solid materials of cities and variable related in Golestan Province		Practices of Social Reporting in Italian Public Sector and Non-profit Organisations. An Institutional Theory Approach
	Ahmad Sarani-Zahra Nejad akbari-Mosal Reza Shekhnazari-Reza Niknia		Riccardo Mussari-Patrizio Monfardini
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th 2010 Time: 14.40-15.30
ROOMS
Great Hall	14.40-15.30
	Session on Research Method and Theory in Social Accounting led by Rob Gray
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th 2010 – PARALLEL SESSION II “Environmental and social disclosure” Time: 16.00-18.00
ROOMS	SESSION II	SESSION II		SESSION II		CHAIR
Great Hall	16.00-16.40	16.40-17.20		17.20-18.00		Rob Gray
	Pricing, environmental and social performance in the water supply company - monopoly de jure (real example)	Values-based public-private networks . CSR orientation in local government in Italy		Environmental purchasing and cost analysis
	Ninel Nesheva Kiosseva-George Getov	Mara Del Baldo -Paola Demartini		Boychinka Yonkova
Room B	16.00-16.40	16.40-17.20				Robin Roberts
	Cooperative banks (CBs) as a source of local development in CSR context	Corporate disclosure and performance in corruption field: the Spanish case
	Ericka Costa-Caterina Pesci -Tommaso Ramus	Maider Aldaz Odriozola

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th 2010 – SESSION III “Social and Environmental Reporting” Time: 11.30-12.50
ROOMS	SESSION III	SESSION III	CHAIR
Great Hall	11.30-12.10	12.10-12.50	Sue Gray
	Social and Environmental reporting: policies and practice. A proposal for Romanian Companies	The Role of Public Audit as a Main Tool for Decreasing the Corruption Coefficient in the Context of Albanian Integration into European Union
	Camelia Iuliana Lungu- Chiraţa Caraiani- Cornelia Dascǎlu-Daniela N. Sahlian	Pranvera Resulaj
Room B	11.30-12.10	12.10-12.50	Roger L. Burritt
	New research methodology for monitoring sustainable development indicators on tourism destinations: a comparative analysis on the greatest Italian destinations	The sustainability report for the non-profit organizations in Italy. Proposals for standardization
	Massimo Briani	Alessandra Tami
Room C	11.30-12.10	12.10-12.50	M. Gabriella Baldarelli
	SER and Organizational change: an Italian Story	The CSR in developing models of social enterprises: the outputs of the URBANOSE (Network of Social Enterprises) project
	Massimo Contrafatto	Giuseppe Di Dio-Francesco Liardo-Massimo Finocchiaro Castro

Programme - Printable version (PDF format)

Parallel Sessions (preliminary programme) - Printable version (PDF format)