The International Research Network on Social and Environmental Aspects in Business and Management (SEABUS) in collaboration with the European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS) would like to invite practitioners and academics to jointly discuss the latest developments in CSR and corporate sustainability research.

This one-day event includes the following academic presentations:
- ”Sustainable Investment appraisal with the Sustainable Value approach” by Frank Figge from Queen’s University Belfast
- ”Barriers to innovative CSR” by Lutz Preuss from Royal Holloway, University of London
- ”The link between corporate environmental and financial performance” by Pontus Cerin from Umeå School of Business.

Complementary practitioner presentations and a key note speech on the workshop topic are held by:
- Virginie Delwart (Project Manager at CSR Europe, Manager for Corporate Social Responsibility at Johnson & Johnson),
- John Swannick (CSR Director at Lloyds TSB)
- A senior McKinsey manager (tbc).

The event will close with a roundtable discussion on whether CSR and sustainability research gives useful inputs for companies - or how it might be optimised for business use.

The event will be held on October 20th 2009 in Brussels. Participation is free of charge. Places are limited. Please indicate your interest for participation to info (at) eabis (dot) org. For more information on the agenda and location of the workshop please see www.seabus-research.net/transferworkshop/index.html