Access to the conference's presentations
The role of large enterprises
in democracy and society
25-26 October 2007
Krakow, Poland
Scientific conference
Observatoire de la Finance in partnership with Jagiellonian
University and
University of Fribourg
Large, multinational enterprises play a critical role in the world economy as innovators, marketers, employers, standard setters, international investors, tax payers, generators of financial returns and organisers of work for millions of other, smaller entities across the world etc. Through all their intense interactions with the so called “non-market environment” (public bodies and social actors), the very large enterprises contribute greatly to shape this environment. Operating with a longer perspective, endowed with larger financial resources and intellectual skills than their smaller counterparts, the very large enterprises are highly sensitive to the outcomes of almost any legislative processes as they are concerned to how existing legal norms are put in practice. Responding to the law and more broadly to social concerns and expectations, influencing the law and - when necessary - looking for ways to accommodate the law, are the three main options open to business in contemporary society.
Programme
Thursday, October the 25th
Venue: Michal Bobrzynski’s Room at the Collegium
Maius - Jagiellonian University
(ul. Jagiellonska 15)
9.30 Welcome coffee
10.00 Public opening
session - East European issues
· Michel Barde, International Labour organisation, Geneva
· Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, Warsaw
· Paul H. Dembinski, Observatoire de la Finance and Brigitte Monsou
Tantawy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva
12.00 Cocktail
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Venue: Representation hall of Larisch Palace - Jagiellonian University (ul. Bracka 12)
14.00 Private interests in the political
philosophy of democracy
· Nicolas Hayoz, Universite de Fribourg
· Rafael Alvira, Universidad de Navarra
· Montserrat Herrero, Instituto Empresa y Humanismo, Pamplona (Navarra)
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 How enterprises make their
voices heard?
· Paul H. Dembinski, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva
· Jerzy Brniak, BP Poland, Krakow
· Laurent Montreuil, UNIAPAC, Paris
· Gérard Legris, European Commission, European Transparency
Initiative, Brussels
18.00 end of the first day
20.00 Dinner
Friday, October the 26th
09.00 Beyond legal constraints -
are the corporations really responsive to social concerns?
· Jean-Pierre Mean, SGS Group, Geneva
· Barbara Fryzel, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
· Mariusz Witalis, Ernst & Young, Warsaw
· Laszlo Fekete, Corvinus University of Budapest
11.00 coffee break
11.30 Final round-table
· Wojciech W. Gasparski, Business Ethics Centre, Warsaw
· Michel Sauquet, Institute for research and debate on governance-IRG,
Paris
· François Lépineux, Bordeaux Business School and INSEAD,
Paris
· Pierre Lecocq, Inergy-Automotive and UNIAPAC Europe, Paris
Registration fees: 100 EUR (special
students rates)
Accommodation: 85 EUR / night with breakfast
Information at: office@obsfin.ch
