Conference Description:

LIC'23 conference invites economic stakeholders and researchers in management sciences and economics to reflect analyse and enrich debates on the brakes and levers at the level of organisations (companies, government administrations and associations) that can either block or promote the momentum towards the transition to an inclusive/circular model.
In its 7th edition, the LIGUE conference aims to promote research that demonstrates how policies and practices for transforming towards inclusivity/circularity are deployed by organisations.
LIC'23 conference focuses on two areas:
- Identifying best practices to implement and risks to avoid in order to transition toward inclusive/circular models and to improve the organizations' performance.
- Improving trust between the different stakeholders through the transparency and traceability within the value chains and financing circuits involved in inclusive/circular models.
In its 7th edition, the LIGUE conference aims to answer the following queries:
- How to promote financial inclusion that is a catalyst for 7 of the 17 SDGs.
- How do new inclusive/circular financial engineering practices reflect the financial performance expectations of donors?
- How does the added value of inclusive/circular business models reflect in current accounting principles and structures?
- How to ensure honest and transparent disclosure of companies' progress towards sustainable development (Ernst & Young, 2023), whether financial or non-financial, including ESG reporting?
- To capture the value of inclusive/circular business models, what role should accountants and auditors play in establishing new circular accounting approaches?
- What are the opportunities and constraints in financial accounting for companies with circular model?
- How can we promote the commitment of inclusive/circular organisations to clients, end users and funders?
- What does responsible, ethical or fair marketing look like in emerging economies?
- How can we promote organisational inclusion or an inclusive climate in which all employees are fairly valued, valued for their skills and involved in decision-making?
- For an inclusive organisation, what models of leadership, training, coaching and career management are needed?
- How to reconcile values of honesty and integrity with financial performance requirements in a liberal and competitive economy?
- How can for-profit businesses, public authorities and associations benefit from policies and incentives that encourage the adoption of inclusivity and circularity?
- Are the scarcity of resources and the health crisis (COVID-19), the political crisis (war and terrorism) and the financial crisis obstacles or opportunities for inclusivity and circularity?
- What dialogue with stakeholders is necessary to move towards an inclusive/circular model?
- How can New Public Management principles integrate dimensions of inclusivity/circularity?
- In moving towards inclusive/circular models, what role can national and/or organisational cultures play?
- Is the digital transition a lever or a brake for inclusivity / circularity?
- Artificial intelligence (A.I) in an inclusive organisation: do they complement or exclude?
- What are the challenges of the use of IT (big data, cloud, etc.) for the transition to a circular/inclusive model?
- How do quality, environmental or CSR certification or labelling contribute to an organisation's inclusivity/circularity?
- What are the costs of the implementation of an inclusive / circular model in an organisation?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages in terms of governance, human resources, operational procedures, etc. of the changes involved in adopting the inclusive/circular model?
- How can the performance of an inclusive/circular company be measured in terms of KPIs?
- What is the trade-off for a for-profit organisation between re-engineering its processes to be more inclusive/circular and its objectives in terms of economic rationality?
- How to promote inclusive/circular entrepreneurship?
- What role can digitalisation and AI play in promoting inclusive entrepreneurship?