21st ABIS Annual Colloquium 2022

Business principles for the stakeholder capitalism era

Pauline Bieringa

Pauline Bieringa has been managing director of Triodos Bank Nederland since September 2020. She grew up in Friesland, studied history in Groningen and the United States and completed her MBA at the Erasmus University. Pauline started her banking career within ING Group, where she held several international positions in and outside the Netherlands. In 2004 she became director of public finance at BNG Bank. Besides that she was also supervisor at Hivos-Triodos Fund, Open University, KAS Bank and Stichting Berenschot Beheer for many years, and is involved in a number of initiatives related to help with debt problems.

Manuela Brusoni

At SDA Bocconi, Manuela is the Director of Quality Accreditation and Benchmarking and member of the Scientific Board of the Impact Investing Lab. She launched and was the Director of MASAN, the Executive Education Program of Public Procurement in Health Care Organizations.

She has conducted research, education and consulting projects for some of the major players in many different sectors, both at European and Italian level. Her research activities focus on public procurement and business government relations, quality and innovation in management education. Currently, she has focused on the role of public administration and responsibilities for innovation and competitiveness of businesses and the relationship between institutional models and skills  development for public procurement.

She is the author of numerous books and articles. Her works have been published in Economia & Management, Public Management Review and Singapore Management Review, among others. She is the editor of and contributor to books for both international (such as Routledge, Greenleaf, Palgrave Macmillan) and Italian publishers (such as EGEA, Franco Angeli, CEDAM). She is Chair of the Accreditation Commission of ASFOR (the Italian Association for Management Education), member of its Board and contact person in ENQA, former President of the Central Procurement Society of the Lombardy Region, a member of the Board of ABIS (the Academy of Business in Society), System Evaluator for ANVUR (Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca) and a member of various Evaluation Units of Provinces, Municipalities and Health Care Organizations. She has been Chair Elected of various Committees of the Academy of Management.

Luca Condosta

Edward Freeman

R. Edward Freeman is University Professor, Olsson Professor, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pitman, 1984; and reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010). His latest book is The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-offs, with Bidhan Parmar and Kirsten Martin, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020. He has received six honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from: Radboud University in the Netherlands; Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain; the Hanken School of Economics, and Tampere University in Finland; Sherbrooke University in Canada; and, Leuphana University in Germany, for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. He is the host of The Stakeholder Podcast, sponsored by Stakeholder Media, LLC.

Lisa Gring-Pemble

Dr. Lisa Gring-Pemble is the Business for a Better World Center's co-executive director. She is also an associate professor within the Business Foundations Area and co-founder of the Honey Bee Initiative. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric from the University of Maryland.

Since joining George Mason University in 2000, she has pursued teaching and research around three main areas: 1) global impact and engagement, 2) argumentation, rhetorical criticism, and persuasion, and 3) political communication and public policy. She is author of Grim Fairy Tales: The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy and a co-editor of Readings on Political Communication. Her work has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Political Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and Communication Quarterly. Current research focuses on the role of rhetoric and morality in capitalist markets, the role of language in legislation on equal pay and immigration, and the role of business in addressing sustainable development goals and creating positive impact.

She is passionate about teaching and is the recipient of the 2005 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2017 OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award, and 2019 George Mason University Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award.

As Co-Executive Director for the Business for a Better World Center, Gring-Pemble supports university-wide initiatives that engage students of all majors in social innovation, social enterprise, and entrepreneurship. She is deeply involved with impact and sustainability initiatives as co-founder of the Honey Bee Initiative, member of Mason’s team in the Deans and Directors Cohort of the Global Responsible Leadership Institute (GRLI), a representative of Mason in the Champions Cycle of the Principles of Responsible Management (PRME) Initiative of the UN Global Compact, and Mason’s liaison to Ashoka.

Ivo Matser

Ivo Matser is a specialist in managing and leading organizational change in the corporate world and private academic institutions. He continuously pursues to increase the organizational value bringing internal and external perspectives into the process. He executes his profession from three different roles: as a senior executive manager, as board member and as consultant.

Ivo is an economist, a leadership expert and certified Expert Marketing Professional (EMP). He started his career in sports business and managed real estate, publishing and professional services companies. Since 2001, he has been in the position of CEO/President/Dean of private higher education institutions: SWOT Business School (NL), TSM Business School (NL), ISM University of Management and Economics (LT), GISMA Business School (D, UK). Ivo is also assessor for international institutional accreditations in several countries. Regularly he is a speaker at conferences and board room consultant at companies for designing and implementing strategies.

He has represented for more than 10 year academic institutions as member of ABIS and he was member of the Board of Directors of ABIS from 2017-2019.

Crispen Sachikonye

Crispen Sachikonye is Chief Executive of Social Value UK, a membership organisation that encourages decisions which promote wellbeing and are based on a stakeholder involvement. He develops and refines approaches to help organisations understand the value they create and destroy, and builds pathways to ensure they do more good and less harm. He is a keen academic attached to the University of Manchester Health Management Group through which he facilitates leadership learning and researches ethical leadership. He has a particular interest in African ethics, which are rooted in community, as a basis for sustainable leadership action.

Karolina Sobczak

Karolina Sobczak is Knowledge Manager at ABIS – The Academy of Business in Society, where she is responsible for identifying the most relevant sustainability themes and developing related projects, events and trainings. Passionate about leadership development, she is currently exploring holistic approaches to change and development, including coaching and awareness-based systems change. Prior to joining ABIS, she worked in a change management consultancy. Karolina holds a M.Sc. in Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology from Bocconi University.

Baback Yazdani

Baback Yazdani is Professor of Product Development and the Executive Dean of Nottingham Business School (NBS) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). During his Deanship since 2007, NBS has gone through purposeful transformation and continuous growth to develop an international reputation for Personalisation and Experiential Learning. NBS is amongst the 1% of business schools globally that are accredited by AACSB and EQUIS. NBS is also a global PRME Champion, holds Small Business Charter (SBC) by Chartered ABS and EFMD’s Business School Impact System (BSIS) marque.

Baback plays an active role in the development of business school community and is a Council Member and Treasurer of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). He is also a Board Member of European Foundation for Management Development's (EFDM), and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Academy of Business in Society (ABIS).

As Professor of Product Development, with special expertise in the Auto industry, he continues to research and work with global automakers. His has over 20 years of experience as a senior leader at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, as well as extensive senior leadership roles in industry and international business (US and Europe), including Director of Product Development at Jaguar Land Rover, and Director of Business and Operations at Premier Automotive Group: JLR, Volvo, Aston Martin and Lincoln Mercury in the USA. He is also a past Chair of CBI in East Midlands.