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Call for Proposals: 2008 Summer Research Support
The GW Institute for Corporate Responsibility announces a Call for Proposals for research addressing Corporate Responsibility issues. Up to four awards will be made for Summer 2008 research support. Those submitting winning proposals will be eligible for a summer research stipend of $7,500. We invite all regular, full-time GW faculty to apply. (Members of the ICR Executive Committee will review and select proposals and therefore are not eligible to apply.)
Please note that ICR is soliciting proposals from across the university and invites submissions from any discipline. Theoretical and empirical (including cases) work are welcome.
The research stipend will be awarded as follows: $3,750 at the beginning of summer 2008 and $3,750 upon receipt of the research paper.
Proposals are due on January 7, 2008 and a hardcopy should be submitted with a current CV to Tim Fort, Executive Director of ICR at:
The Institute for Corporate Responsibility
2201 G Street, NW
Funger Hall
Suite 615
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-1889
Fax: 202-994-8113
Please address any questions to John Forrer, Administrative Director, GW ICR at jforrer@gwu.edu or x45248.
Selection of proposals for awards will be announced in late-January, 2008. Download application here.
Recent Publications
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently selected a paper by Jorge Rivera, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, as one of the ten best examples of excellent research available on compliance and environmental behavior literature in 2007. The paper, "Is greener whiter? The sustainable slopes program and the voluntary environmental performance of western ski areas," was published in Policy Studies Journal, vol.32, no. 3, pp. 417-437.
Timothy L. Fort, the Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics wrote "The Mirage of Integrity: Creating a Trustworthy Corporate Culture." The article was featured in the ethics section of the April 2007 issue of Directors Monthly. Fort wrote, "My own view is that, while ethics is an everyday business concern, without some specialized exposure, the topic will fail. It is difficult for me to believe that an integrated values strategy will succeed without the active presence of board members who have deep knowledge of ethics, compliance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability."
New Book by Timothy L. Fort, "Business, Integrity, and Peace - Beyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries"
- Provides historical understanding of the concept of peace through commerce
- Integrates three different and rarely connected approaches to corporate responsibility
- Contains summaries of work being done by businesses to foster peace