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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Kotchian, Sarah B. "Converting to Spiritual Profits: CEO Faith and Corporate Environmental Performance," American Studies, University of New Mexico, May 2000.
This dissertation expands the concepts of ecotheology into the narrative on corporate environmental performance. It hypothesizes that the spiritual values of leaders can strongly influence corporate cultures to focus on a sustainable environment and socially responsible business practices. It traces the re-emergence of ecological principals within Christianity, reviews the history of the corporate social responsibility movement, and defines the potential for and the extent of the relationship of these movements to leadership and the improvement of corporate environmental performance. It then discusses interviews with corporate CEOs to explore whether and how CEOs with a strong faith influenced their organizational cultures in order to improve corporate social and environmental performance. It assesses the influence of the emerging dialogue on ecojustice and corporate social responsibility on corporate leaders, and reaches some conclusions about the cultures and conditions in which the faith of the CEO is most likely to have a positive influence on corporate environmental performance.
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