4/1999 
News from
EBEN Aktuelle Themen des Europäischen Dachverbandes
I am the executive member of the European Business Ethics Network, EBEN, responsible for communication. I am delighted to have the opportunity to report to the members of DNWE (EBEN Germany) directly through your excellent newsletter Forum Wirtschaftsethik. Of course, all members of EBEN receive the European Business Ethics Newsletter, but I hope that this regular column will help keep you informed about events and initiatives at the International level of EBEN. Most of all, I would like to invite your active participation in the International events of EBEN, and look forward to meeting some of you in the future.
The current EBEN Executive has been in place for just over one year, since September 1998. The EBEN Executive consists of:
Chair
Dr. Heidi von Weltzien Høivik
Associate Professor
Director Center for Ethics and Leadership
Norwegian School of Management
P.O. Box 580
N - 1301 Sandvika
Norway
Email: heidi.hoivik@bi.no
Secretary
Dr. Harry Hummels
European Institute for Business Ethics
Nyenrode University
Straatweg 25
NL - 3621 BG Breukelen
The Netherlands
Email: hummels@nyenrode.nl
Treasurer
Prof. dr hab. Jacek Sójka
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Instytut Kulturoznawstwa
ul. Szamarzewskiego 91
PL - 60 568 Poznan
Poland
Email: jsojka@amu.edu.pl
Newsletter Editor and Communications
Dr. Laura J. Spence
Centre for Organisational and Professional Ethics
School of Business and Management
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Email: Laura.Spence@brunel.ac.uk
A very important member of the team is the EBEN Administrative Manager, Barbara Hoekstra
Nyenrode University
Straatweg 25
NL - 3621 BG Breukelen
The Netherlands
Email: hoekstra@nyenrode.nl
All of the Executive members are committed to developing EBEN further and would welcome comments, suggestions and support from all our members. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
You will have received an annual report from EBEN with the last EBEN newsletter. Some of the highlights of EBEN activities in the last year are outlined below. Further details can be found on our website (www.EBEN.org) or in the newsletters:
- The development of partnerships with the European Business Network for Social Cohesion, and the European Ethics Network. We want to serve our members by offering them links with these groups, and developing projects in which members can participate and from which they can benefit. We also are developing links beyond Europe, and have representation on the International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics committee and the Caux Round Table. I had the opportunity to present EBEN at the Society for Business Ethics Annual conference (a major North American network) in August 1999, and we are keen to link EBEN with the Society for Business Ethics further. See the December newsletter for a full report on the Society for Business Ethics Conference.
- The EBEN conferences continue to be stimulating International events. There are two main EBEN conferences each year, the Annual Conference and the Research Conference. In 1999 these took place in Amsterdam and Norway respectively. Reports on both are in the EBEN newsletters. In 2000 the EBEN conference will be in Cambridge, UK at Churchill College (12-14 September 2000). The research conference will be in Lyon (France 16-17 June 2000).
- The Chair of EBEN, Heidi von Weltzien Høivik is responsible for a stream of European Business Ethics papers at the International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics conference in São Paulo, Brazil in August 2000. This gives the opportunity for a pooling of European efforts and worldwide exposure of the work going on in Europe. Please contact Heidi von Weltzien Høivik for further information.
- Communications and
publications are seen as critical to the European Business Ethics Network. Some
key points to highlight are:
- The European Business Ethics Newsletter. Please read the newsletter for further details of activities throughout EBEN and in the other National Networks. Also, the newsletter is one of your opportunities to communicate your business ethics events and publications to EBEN members across the world (after all, EBEN has members from 33 different countries).
- EBEN has an ongoing agreement with Kluwer to publish a selection of papers from the Annual EBEN conference in the Journal of Business Ethics.
- EBEN also has a good relationship with Business Ethics: A European Review. The editor, Jane Collier, would like more submissions from EBEN members. The journal is published in English but this should not hinder submissions in other languages.
- The EBEN webpage has been re-launched at www.EBEN.org Please visit it and feel free to offer suggestions for additional information, links, events, that could be included.
The next EBEN conference is being hosted by EBEN-UK at Cambridge, England. I cordially invite you all to read the Call for Papers in this issue of Forum Wirtschaftsethik, and consider contributing to the conference and joining us in Cambridge. Business presentations are very welcome as well as academic papers.
Finally, feel free to contact myself, or any other member of the EBEN executive, if you have any further questions or comments about EBEN. We welcome your contribution.