As Europe’s largest and most international conference with an African focus, ECAS 9 will be held as a face-to-face event. “African Futures” aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. The continent has been...

Conference Sub-themes for Papers: - Conceptual and theoretical approaches to corruption in Africa - History, social structure, culture, and corruption in Africa - Leadership and corruption in Africa - Institutions, state capacity and corruption (Parliament, civil service, judiciary, executive,...

The 2008 conference in Montreal will seek to provide a leading edge overview of our current knowledge of bullying in the workplace. The intersection between different research traditions, theoretical and methodological backgrounds, as well as between research and practice, are necessary...

Key iussues: - Climate Change - How can we build a solid economic framework for combating climate change beyond Kyoto? - Growth and Stability - How to deal with risks following the shocks of financial turmoil, cooling housing markets and higher energy and commodity prices? How should regulators...

Economic growth is more and more questioned internationally. A debate has been developing the last years in France on the concept of "Sustainable De-growth”". The question reaches the researchers: the so-called "decoupling" between ecological degradation and economic growth appears...

What is the future of the market economy? The 21st century began with this major issue. What are the current characteristics of capitalism? How can we explain this comeback to the origins? History is stammering, the Economist, the Sociologist, the Politician… are getting bored. Is the system...