Does corporate social responsibility enhance profitability?

28 May 2002
UTS Art Gallery
702 Harris St, Ultimo (nr Broadway)
Peter Johnson Building, Level 4 (to the left of main courtyard)
6.00 pm to 8.30 pm, $15 entry

Advocates of CSR are becoming more confident in their calls. Reporting regimes are being put in place to monitor corporate performance, with investors, NGOs, governments and the media all claiming an interest. Companies are responding with impressive reports and community programs.

But does CSR require of a company a higher standard than that of acting within the letter and spirit of the law? Should a company pursue that higher standard, in the social interest? Should it, in the company's own interest?

Program

• 6.00 pm Drinks and nibbles
  
  
• 6.45 pm Professor Thomas Clarke, Head of School of Management, UTS
  Welcome and introductions
  
  
• 6.55 pm Attracta Lagan, Manager, Sustainability Services, KPMG
  Corporate Responses to Demands for Social Accountability
  
  
• 7.10 pm Dr Dedee Woodside, ecologist and change agent
  Case study on the Rice Growers Cooperative of the Murray Irrigation Area
  
  
• 7.25 pm Panel discussion and questions
  Speakers joined by Professor Dexter Dunphy, Corporate Sustainability Project, UTS as Chair
  Eva Cox, Senior lecturer and social commentator, UTS
  Graham Jennings, National Manager, Rural and Regional Banking, Westpac
  
  
• 8.10 pm Drinks and nibbles
  
  
• 8.30pm Close

RSVP

Please courtesy RSVP to Phyllis.Agius@uts.edu.au or Suzanne.Benn@uts.edu.au

Phyllis Agius
Executive Assistant / Research
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007
Phone: 02 9514 3029
Fax: 02 9514 3615