PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
In Business and Social Life

21th EBEN Annual Conference
Antalya/TURKEY, October 17-18-19, 2008
Deadline June 15, 2008

First Call for Papers

From the time of Hippocrates Professional Ethics has been a critical issue for philosophers and ethicists. The main theme of this conference is to ask and discuss the importance of professional ethics in business, public sector, politics and media. Papers about ethical issues in marketing, management, finance and accounting will also be accepted. Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to, the following:

Professional Ethics:

  • Professional ethics in business
  • Professional ethics in public sector
  • Professional ethics in health sector (medicine, pharmacy, nursing, etc..)
  • Role of trade unions in professional ethics
  • Professional ethics in politics
  • Professional ethics in media
  • Professional ethics in engineering
  • Professional ethics in law
  • Professional ethics in tourism
  • Managerial ethics
  • Ethical issues in production and operation management

Other Ethical Issues:

  • Marketing ethics
  • Sexual harassment
  • Developing business ethics in SME´s
  • Business ethics and gender issues
  • Financial ethics
  • Ethics in Accountancy
  • Bribery, corruption, nepotism
  • Responsible leadership
  • Ethical issues in human resources

Contributions are invited as full paper or, alternatively, as 2-page abstracts in Word format as e-mail attachment until June 15, 2008 to the papers@eben-tr.org. Information on acceptance of papers will be given by July 30, 2008. Accepted Full papers should be sent until 30 August 2008. Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings book. However, papers applied to the JBE will only be published in abstract form.

Contributions of both academics and practitioners are encouraged. Please note that only submitted full papers are eligible for consideration for the special issue of The Journal of Business Ethics! If you want your paper to be considered please note "JBE" on the cover page. Since papers will be submitted to a peer review process, please make sure that it contains a cover page with all relevant information (title, authors, contact details, etc.) and that no author identifying information is included from page 2 onwards. Start with the title, include a short abstract of 100-200 words and use Times Roman font, 12 pt, double spaced and follow the JBE style guide for your references (e.g. Author, 1st and 2nd Author: 2007, `My EBEN paper´, in The Journal of Business Ethics 99(1), 21-32.).

A selected conference paper will receive the EBEN Best Paper Award.

The conference will take place in Antalya, a famous southern city of Turkey. Hotel information, location address, committee members and other details will be announced soon.

May 27, 2008