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Sixth International Symposium on
Catholic Social Thought and Management Education

Sesto Convegno Internazionale su Pensiero Sociale cristiano e formazione manageriale

The Good Company 
Catholic Social Thought and
Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue

Dialogo tra Pensiero Sociale Cristiano e responsabilità sociale d’impresa”

 

Pontificia Università San Tommaso (Angelicum)

Roma, Italia

October 5-7, 2006

www.stthomas.edu/thegoodcompany/    

Welcome

Helen Alford, O.P., Conference Co-Chair, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), Italy

Renato Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace and of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, Vatican City

Opening Plenary

Setting up the dialogue between CST and CSR

Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

Bruno S. Frey, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  

Small Business and CST-CSR

• Leonardo Becchetti, “Contagious” Small Good Firms: The Case of Fair Trade
• Peter Heslam and Ben Andradi, Catholic Social Teaching and the Role of Business in the  Eradication of Poverty
• Jean-Luc Castro,  An Exploration of the Influence of Catholic Values on Management Practices of Heads of SMC’s: The Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church Put to the Test within Firms
• Laura Michelini, NGO-Business Partnerships in Italy: An Exploratory Study     

Comparing/Contrasting CST & CSR

• Antonio Argandoña, From Ethical Responsibility to Corporate Social Responsibility
• Rev. Domènec Melé, Mainstream Theories on Normative Corporate Social Responsibility: Analysis from Catholic Social Thought
• Albert Erisman, Building the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Robert DeFina and Barbara Wall, Speaking in Tongues: CSR, CST and the Legitimation of Free Market Economics

            Law, Governance and the Purpose of the Firm

• Robert Miller, Maximizing Shareholder Value in the Good Company
• Robert Vischer, Moral Identity, Subsidiarity and the Good Company 
• Robert Keen, An Aquinas in the Boardroom
• Ernest Pierucci, Is There Room in the Rule? Does the Business Judgment Rule Allow Space for the Principles of Catholic Social Teaching to Guide the Operation of a Corporation?
• Edwin Epstein, The "Good Company," Rhetoric or Reality? Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics Redux

            Justice, Wages and Outsourcing

• Albino Barrera O.P., Outsourcing: The Case for Residual Obligations
• Shirley Roels, Global Compensation Justice for Educated Young Adults
• Pablo Paras, A Cry for Help: Wealth Distribution in Mexico
• Jude Njoku, Justice and Corporate Responsibility: Catholic Thought versus Liberal Economic Ethics  

            Theological Perspectives

• Gil Bailie, Keeping Good Company: The Leavening Influence of Morally Ordered Lives
• Reyes Calderon Cuadrado and Jose Luis Alvarez Arce, The Roots of the Corporate Corruption: Deceit, Religion, and the “Good Company”
• Danila Raskov, Homo Oeconomicus and its Alternatives: Economic and Theological Approaches;
• Sergei Lukin, Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Objectives

 

Pluralism, Natural Law and Convergence of CST and CSR

• Geert Demuijnck, Convergence in Divergence of CST and CSR in a Retailer Ethics Committee: A Case Study.
• Christine Fletcher, CST, CSR and the Purpose Driven Company
• Michael Nader, Personnel Policies of the Good Company According to Catholic Social Teaching
• D. Kirk Davidson and John Larrivee, How Can the Company Be Good If Its Products are Bad?

            CST, CSR and Poverty

• John Bunch, (Bottom of the Pyramid) Economic Development Strategies and Catholic Social Teaching
• Gene Laczniak and Nicholas Santos, S.J., Catholic Social Teaching and the Construction of “Just” Markets
• Muweme Muweme, The Good Company in the Context of Zambia

Economic Democracy 

• Peter Davis, The Co-operative, Catholic Social Thought and the Good Company: The Importance of Pluralism in the Market
• Enzo Pezzini, Cooperatives: Good Companies “by Definition”?
• Aitziber Mugarra Elorriaga, How to Become a ‘Good Company’ in Practice?  Some Experiences in Social Economy in the Basque Country;
• Angel Rodriguez, Jorge Turmo, and Oscar Vara, Forms of Property and the Doctrine of the Church 

Ethical Leadership

• Andre Delbecq, Questions Organizational Leaders Pose to Theologians
• William Byron S.J., The Making of an Ethical Executive
• Mario Molteni, The Common Good and Socio-Competitive Creativity

Catholic Institutions: Healthcare and Universities

 

• Sr. Melanie DiPietro and Alison Sulentic, SSM Health Care: The Integration of Catholic Social Thought Values in a Modern Health Care System
• Adelaide Madera, The “Good Company” in the Healthcare Field
• Cindy Heine, Fostering Middle-Level Thinking in Catholic Healthcare: An Evaluation of One Health System’s Leadership Development and Formation Efforts
• Clemente Ivo Juliatto, Can a University be a Good Company?
• Cristian L. Adaui, Jhony Velásquez D., and Alonso Quintanilla Perez-Wicht, Mainstreaming Catholic Social Thought in a Business School: A Case Study

• William Brinkmann, T. Dean Maines, Michael J. Naughton, J. Michael Stebbins, Arnold Weimerskirch, Brigdging the Gap: Connecting Catholic Social Principles to Practice in Catholic Health Care         

Plenary

The Common Good

Robert Sugden, Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Respondents:  

• Lee Tavis, Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy 

 The Common Good in Society as a Whole

• Sean Healy, s.m.a. and Brigid Reynolds, s.m., Practices and Policies of Companies Negotiating National Agreements – An Irish Case Study
• Barbara Sena, How Can We Measure the Contribution of the Business to the Common Good? Operationalising the Theoretical Concept of the Common Good
• André Habisch, The Principle of Subsidiarity as a Normative Rationale for Corporate Community Involvement and Business’ Investment in Social Capital 
• Tony McNamara, Consumer, Client, Customer or Citizen:  Can the State be a Good Company?  

The Common Good in CST and CSR

• Joseph DesJardins, Sustainability as the Common Good: Distinguishing the Right from the Good in Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Leo Clarke and Edward Lyons, Germain Grisez and the Corporate Common Good        
• Michael J. Miller, Vocation and the Common Good: A Second Look at the CSR Movement
• Donatella Chiodo and Caterina Ferrone, The Model of a Catholic CSR in Comparison with the Model of a Secular CSR 

Asia

• Thomas Hong-Soon Han, Catholicism and Confucianism in Dialogue for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Stephan Rothlin S.J., Developing Catholic Social Teaching and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chinese Context
• Dennis McCann, Corporate Social Responsibility and Catholic Social Teaching in Hong Kong: A Case Study

      CST/CSR Pedagogy

• Athar Murtuza, Assessing the Goodness of Islamic Banks from the Perspective of CSR and CST
• Jeanette Loanzon, From Manhattan to Dapitan: Human Dignity and Structural Realities in a Filipino Business School
• Louis Xavier Irudayaraj S.J., Forming Managers in a Business School for “The Good Company"
• Steven Papamarcos and George W. Watson, Unifying a Divided Life: Enhancing the Social Justice “Learning” in Service-Learning by Building Critical Thinking Skills
• John Médaille, Teaching Business as a Vocation: Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis

                                               

Plenary Session

Practical Implications of Catholic Social Thought

José Ignacio Mariscal, CEO Grupo Marnhos (Mexico-DF), President Elect of UNIAPAC

Respondents: Lorna Gold, Policy Analyst, Trocaire; Economy of Communion

Franco Gesualdi, Centre for a New Model of Development

 

Cases of Good and Not So Good Companies

• Thomas Bausch and Robert Ouimet, "Tomasso Corporation" A Sustainable 35 Year Experimentation of Christian Anthropology and the Common Good in a Competitive Industry
• Patricia Debeljuh, The Company as a Community of People: The Bimbo Case
• Marco Foschini, Agriculture and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Experience of Coldiretti
• Vicente T. Villegas, The Cultural Basis of the Good Company: Social Responsibility from a Filipino Christian Perspective
• Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux, Malden Mills: When Being a Good Company Isn’t Good Enough

 

Environment, CST and CSR

• Laura Baritz, O.P., Does Common Good Involve Environment? Surveying Different Common Good Models with Regard to Environment 
• Francis Kadaplackal, P. Hefner’s Concept ‘Created Co-creator’ as a Source of Inspiration for a Sustainable Corporate Environmental Responsibility
• Árpád Baranyi, Environmental Economics and Business Ethics: Ends by Themselves or Instruments of Profit?
• Osvaldo Ferreiro and Beatriz Calderón, A Company Based on Values, with Corporate Social Responsibility, is a Good Company: CST + CSR = GC

 

Finance, Ethics and Investing

• GianDemetrio Marangoni and Stefano Solari, The Good Company and Financialisation: Corporate Choices, Institutional Environment and Catholic Social Thought
• Rev. Francis McHugh, Our City is Your City or Your City is Our City?
• Bridget Lyons and Lucjan Orlowski, Transparency in Financial Markets and Institutions: A Catholic Social Thought Perspective
• Seamus P. Finn OMI, The Difference that Catholic Institutional Investors Make

 

Big Business, Human Dignity and Social Capital

• Lee Tavis, Determining Standards for the Implementation of CSR/CST
• Paul Dembinski and Patrick de Varax, The Good Company: Does Size Matter? 
• Maarten Biermans, The Dignity of the Good Company: A Comparison of the Usages of the Concept of “Human Dignity”
• Yuliya Shcherbinina, Social Capital: Good Company’s Perspective

                                                                                        Cases 

• Daniel Steininger, Leadership—How Catholics Can Be Successful Leaders in Business and Tax-Exempt Organizations
• Vincent Maher, Joseph Ford and John DeBiase, Small and Mid-Sized Businesses: As Local as CST and CSR Get
• Gina Vega and Patrick Primeaux, S.M., Moral Intuition and Transformative Organizations
• Ken Hackett, Dave Piraino and John Rivera,  Catholic Relief Services: One Organization’s Journey with Catholic Social Thought and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Lura Mack and Margaret Weber, The Premise of Community Investment Essential for the “Good Company”

Plenary

Stakeholder Theory         

Sr. Helen Alford, O.P.  Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical University of  St Thomas (Angelicum), Italy

Respondents:

• Lorenzo Sacconi Professor of Economics, University of Trent, Italy 
• Ken Goodpaster, Professor of Business Ethics, University of St Thomas, USA

 Work in CST and CSR

• Daniel Brennan, Howard Behar and Heribert Schmitz, If Employees Were Really to Enjoy Their Work, What Would Happen to Capitalism?
• Hendrik Opdebeeck, The Dialogue of CST and CSR in E.F. Schumacher’s Last Publication “Good Work”:  Participation as a Linkage Between Principle and Practice. 
• Jean-Bernard Bruneteaux, The Company: Between Shareholder and Customer
• Vincenzo Putrignano and Daniela Verducci, In the Good Company One Works Better: Positive Interactions between CST and CSR  

Personalism and Stakeholder Theory

• Ken Goodpaster, Stakeholders and the Common Good: A Polarity at the Core of Corporate Conscience
• Lorna Gold and Rev. John McNerney, A Personalistic Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility: An Application in the Economy of Communion Paradigm
• Gianfranco Rusconi: Stakeholder Theory and Business Economics
• Tibor Hejj, What is the Holistic Stakeholder Value Matrix Derived From?

Philosophical Perspectives on CST and CSR

• Kenneth Melchin and Darlene O’Leary, Profit and the Good Company: Lonergan’s Ethical Foundations and Economic Analysis in Dialogue with Catholic Social Thought and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Jim Wishloff, The Land of Realism and the Shipwreck of Idea-ism: Thomas Aquinas and Milton Friedman on the Good Company and the Social Responsibilities of Business 
• David W. Lutz, Rival Philosophical Foundations of the Good Company
• Mi-Yong Lee-Peuker, Multi-Dimensional Rationality and Action Theory

Relationality in the Economy

• Luigino Bruni and Alessandra Smerilli, The Price of Socrates: CSR, Group Identification and Common Good in Organisations
• Vittorio Pelligra, Can You Buy Trustworthiness? An Experimental Study
• Giuseppe Argiolas, The Good Management: Drivers of Corporate Social Orientation Towards a Multidimensional Success

                                                Assessing and Measuring the Good Company

• Elisa Golin and Giampietro Parolin, with Francesca Grandi and Chiara Rubinelli,
  Good Company: From Strategy to Sharing through Accountability
• Sonja Gallhofer and Jim Haslam, Catholic Social Thought, Corporate Social Responsibility and Accounting
• Timothy Mahoney, Accounting for Just Wages: A Reporting Standards Proposal
• Robert Shoemake and Douglas Jondle, Assessing the Good Company
• Dan Hess, A Framework for CSR Assessment, Measurement and Reporting

Closing Mass Homily by Reverend Albino Barrera, O.P.