5th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

Programme

Monday 1st May

 

Music Hall

Presentation Room

13.30

Opening Ceremony

 

Assist.Prof. Kiymet Caliyurt – Conference Coordinator

Prof Dr Sudi Apak – Dean of the Business Administration and Economics Faculty

Prof Dr David Crowther – President of CSR Conference Series

 

 

15.30

Opening Cocktail

 

 

16.30

Keynote Speech

Prof Mary Beth Armstrong – California Polytechnic State University, USA

Ethics education in accounting: A three-tiered approach

 

 

17.45

End of formal session

 

 

19.00

Transport to Dinner

The university bus will be ready in front of the Kervansaray Hotel

 

19.30

Dinner

Degirmen Pub

 

 

 

Tuesday 2nd May

 

Music Hall

Presentation Room

09.30

Parallel sessions

Chair: Guler Aras

 

Ayten Çetin & Celali Yilmaz

Assessing the COSO’s Guidance for Smaller Public Companies Reporting on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Edwin Mujih

The CSR Components

 

Chair: Samuel O. Idowu

 

Hakan Evin

Environmental Dimension of Social Responsibility: Environmental Accounting as a means of Environmental Effects

 

A Tülay Yucel & F Dilvin Taskin

The Use of Financial Derivatives by Turkish Banks

 

10.30

Morning coffee

 

 

11.00

Parallel sessions

Chair: Stella Vettori

 

Svea Svel-Cerovecki

INA and Corporate Social Responsibility Report

 

Mohamed Fauzi Saat, Mustaffa Mohamed Zain, Rashidah Mohammad & Mohd Rashidee Alwi

Corporate Social Responsibility in Government Linked Companies

 

Chair: Emel Gonenc Guler  

 

Evrim Altuk & Serap Kurt

Corporate Governance in Turkey 

 

Lez Rayman-Bacchus & Allison Wylde

CSR and Innovation: a marriage of convenience or necessity?

12.00

Lunch

Tuzcular Restaurant

 

14.00

Parallel sessions

Chair: Maria Aluchna

 

Nevin Yoruk & Meziyet Sema Erdem

Analysing the Relationship between Financial Performance and Corporate Governance Practices of Turkish Banking Sector: Before and after the Establishment of Corporate Governance Principles

 

Tom Burns, Debbie Holley & Sandra Sinfield

The silent stakeholder: An exploration of the student as stakeholder in the UK Government e-learning strategy 2005

 

Deniz Tura

Regional Sustainable Development Program of British Petroleum along the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline

 

Chair: Siti Faridah A. Jabbar

 

Berna Kirkulak & Gulizar Kurt

Why are dividends disappearing?: Evidence from Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE)

 

David Crowther

The Maturing of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Developmental Process

 

Francisco Alegria Carreira, Maria do Amparo Guedes  & Maria da Conceiçăo Aleixo

Ethics and Professional Deontology as a course in the Accounting and Finance degree: An Empirical Study

 

15.30

Afternoon tea

 

 

16.00

Parallel sessions

Chair: Edwin Mujih

 

R. Şeminur Topal & Atakan Öngen

Social Responsibility from side of Sustainable Environment

 

Samuel O. Idowu

Is there a causal relationship between being socially responsible and higher profits? A comparative study of UK companies’ annual reports over two different time periods:  1990 – 1999 and 2000 to date.

 

Nermin Ozgulbas & Ali Serhan Koyuncugil

Application of Data Mining Method for Financial Profiling

 

Chair: Sudi Apak

 

Aziz Satana

Agricultural and Social Responsibility in Turkey 

 

Markus Vinzent

Ethnic entrepreneurship and CSR

 

Merita Mattila

Studying Corporate Social Responsibility in Finland: Genuine Gesture or Pursuit of a Big(ger) Profit?

 

Samsar Kamar bin Ab.Latif
The Duties and Functions of Audit Committee in Corporate Governance

 

17.30

 

General Meeting of the Social Responsibility Research Network

 

 

18.00

End

 

 

20.00

Dinner

Kebabi Restaurant

 

 

Wednesday 3rd May

 

Music Hall

Presentation Room

09.30

Parallel sessions

Chair: R. Şeminur Topal

 

Lez Rayman-Bacchus & Silvia Chowdhury

The shaping of relations between a developing economy and MNCs: Bangladesh and Shipping

 

Gökhan Sönmezler & İsmail Şiriner

Fragility in Banking System and Public’s Role

 

Chair: Fatima David

 

Diana Luck

Shush…. You don’t understand!

 

Miriam Green

Knowledge production in management studies: is there a case to answer with respect to academic social responsibility?

 

10.30

Morning coffee

 

 

11.00

Parallel sessions

Chair: Rute Abreu

 

Aly Salama

The Relationship between Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility Performance and Financial Performance: Are We Moving in the Right Direction?

 

Eddie Elae Chamisa

The use and perceived usefulness of hyperinflation-adjusted financial statements by Zimbabwean investment analysts

 

Chair: Nevin Yoruk

 

Siti Faridah A. Jabbar

Corporate Social Responsibility and Whistleblowing ~ Compatible Partners?

 

Marion Morand & Lez Rayman Bacchus

Think Global, Act Local, An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Multinational Companies

 

12.00

Lunch

Villa Restaurant

 

14.00

Keynote Speech

Dr. Bulent Senver – Founder Member of Ethical Values Center, Bilgi University, Turkey

Ethics in Financial Systems

 

 

15.00

Parallel sessions

Chair: Nermin Ozgulbas

 

Fulya Akyildiz

The Failure of Multiple National Companies in Developing Countries in Sharing Environmental Responsibilities: The Case of Turkey

 

Maria Aluchna

Transition in Poland: Economic success and social failure?

 

Chair: Mustaffa Mohamed Zain

 

Seyoum Zegiorgis
Implementating SOX 404: The Case of Property & Casualty Insurance, Inc.

 

Fatima David & Rute Abreu

Fiscal Fraud and Evasion: Social Responsibility Perspective

 

16.00

Afternoon tea

 

 

16.30

Parallel sessions

Chair: Eddie Elae Chamisa

 

Stella Vettori

Corporate Codes as Terms of the Contract of Employment in South Africa

 

Onyeka Kingsley Osuji

Corporate Personality, Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Enterprises: Trans-national Solution for Trans-boundary Problem

 

Chair: Miriam Green

 

Emel Gonenc Guler
Socio-Cultural Dimension of Responsible Tourism

 

Sudi Apak & Kiymet Tunca Caliyurt

Recent Developments of Internal Control in Turkish Banks

 

 

17.30

 

Closing ceremony

 

19.30

Gala Dinner

Karam Hotel

 

 

Thursday 4th May: coach trip around Edirne. Coach will depart from Hotel Kervansaray at 09.00

We will visit:

Lunch will be at Agakosku

Estimated return time is 16.30