ICCSR 7th Annual Symposium

 

There is need to address further the following questions:

• What is the role of corporations in eradicating extreme poverty?
• What are the implications of businesses taking on responsibility for poverty alleviation and development?
• What constitutes ‘business’ and ‘poverty’ and how different types of businesses may affect different aspects of poverty?
• What motivates companies to tackle poverty in local communities? What types of institutional logic inform corporate innovation in community development?
• How do corporations impact sustainable community development, and to what extent is sustainable community development central to the business strategy in across industry sectors?
• How do corporations integrate the ‘sustainable community development’ agenda into the organisation? How are poverty alleviation issues incorporated in the corporate strategy? How is a ‘community development’ innovation culture built, diffused, and sustained in organisations?
• How are corporations engaging in promoting institutions that are fundamental for local communities’ participation in development processes?
• In what ways are corporations meaningfully engaging state and non-state actors in poverty alleviation and development through their CCI programmes? What organisational forms support or facilitate corporate social action that works to ameliorate poverty?
• What market mechanisms promote and enhance sustainable livelihoods in the community?
• What are the limits of market mechanisms for sustainable community development, and how might these challenges be resolved?
• What are the a) ethical, and b) governance dilemmas of businesses taking on responsibility for poverty alleviation?
• How do we measure social impact of corporate community development?
• How can ‘sustainable community development initiatives’ be scaled-up, and what are the boundaries?