SIG: Education and Ethics- Embedded vs. standalone ethics education: two sides of the same coin?
2025-04-01 15:30 - 16:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online webinars, Online, Australia
Embedded vs. standalone ethics education: two sides of the same coin?
In the same way that the skills vs. knowledge debate continuously swirls around business education, ethics education has its own iteration: whether ethics should be taught as a standalone subject or embedded within all subjects.
This SIG aims to bring together academic expertise to discuss this problem, and potentially plan a pathway ahead for cross-institutional collaboration around the efficacy of ethics education on student perceptions of morality.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
https://uow-au.zoom.us/j/81169231813?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Accounting and Finance SIG: Free webinar on anti-modern slavery with Professor Maria Kapardis
2025-04-08 15:30 - 16:30 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
Date: Tuesday 8th April 2025
Time: 3.30 pm (Brisbane time)
RSVP link: for Microsoft Teams webinar: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d1543798-ce13-4f60-b869-a760417e75d8@feaef260-82c9-49b0-9550-e0b702e6b36b
If you have any queries please contact Clare Burns: clburns@bond.edu.au or 07 5595 2657
Hear accounting Professor Maria Kapardis, editor of The Palgrave Handbook on Modern Slavery, share her insights on the manifestation of 50 million modern slaves across the globe. There will also be time for Q&A.
Professor Kapardis’ research interests are corruption and anti-corruption, ethical behaviour, fraud detection, investigation and prevention, ethical leadership and modern slavery. Maria served as the country expert on corruption for the European Commission for a number of years and she has been awarded a number of prizes for her academic publications as well as community outreach.

Qualitative Research SIG- Qualitative Research in Ethics and Contemporary Technology (AI, Big Data, Blockchain)
2025-04-15 15:30 - 16:30 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
Tuesday 15 April, 3.30pm AEST: Qualitative Research SIG
Qualitative Research in Ethics and Contemporary Technology (AI, Big Data, Blockchain)
In recent years, contemporary technology has expanded rapidly across all industries, profoundly affecting sectors such as finance, accounting, IT, and management, among others. While research in these domains is increasing, numerous opportunities remain unexplored. Notably, qualitative research focused on technology and ethics is somewhat limited. In this Special Interest Group (SIG) discussion, we will deliberate optimal approaches for conducting research in these areas and identifying promising topics to investigate. We invite discussion and eagerly welcome your insights while sharing our perspectives. We look forward to your participation in our SIG 2025.
Join the Teams-based conversation using this link.
Meeting ID: 437 019 021 814
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Critical Writing Workshop for HDR Students/Early Career Researcher
2025-06-12 11:30 - 12:30 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
You are invited to a hands-on Critical Writing Workshop facilitated by Professor Edward Wray-Bliss. This session will help sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills, with a particular focus on critical business ethics—a theme aligned with the ABEN Jan Schapper Scholarship.
This annual scholarship supports emerging scholars engaging in thoughtful, critical approaches to business ethics. The winning paper receives an opportunity to present at the ABEN Conference in 2025 and a $1000 bursary and the waiving of the ABEN conference registration fee. For further information see https://aben.org.au/jan-schapper-scholarships/
Whether you’re early in your candidature, an early career researcher, or deep into writing, this workshop will offer practical strategies and inspiration for high-impact academic work.
Save the date for Thursday 12th June (11:30 am – 12:30 pm (AEST))
Please join us via Zoom- https://utas.zoom.us/j/88144648166?from=addon
Professor Edward Wray-Bliss
Professor Edward Wray-Bliss has pursued a fascination with ethics – with the deepest values that make us who we are and with questions of how these sit in tension with our professional and organisational lives – over an academic career spanning more than 25 years. Since receiving his Doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1998, Edward has held academic positions at universities across Australia and the UK, including those of Macquarie University, Deakin University, University of Technology Sydney, Essex University, Nottingham University, Salford University, Stirling University, and Edge Hill University. He was appointed the Stan Perron Professorial Chair of Business Ethics at Edith Cowan University in 2023.
Edward’s business ethics research is explicitly Critical. It is strongly informed by the intellectual traditions of Critical Theory and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, is methodologically reflexive and qualitative, and is concerned with denaturalising ethically problematic business and academic practices, discourses, and debates. He has written upon a range of topics including modern slavery, workplace sex discrimination, leadership practice, the legacies of religion for business, drug testing and drug and alcohol policy in the workplace, research ethics, evil and organisational practice, and the intersections of love and capitalism. He has been closely involved with the ABEN conference and community since 2010.

ABEN 'On the Road' Mid Year Conversation
2025-06-13 09:30 - 12:30 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
To Join us on the day, please see the Zoom details below
Join Zoom Meeting
https://notredame-au.zoom.us/j/85422028625
Meeting ID: 854 2202 8625
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Annual Conference and HDR workshop
2025-11-26 12:30 - 2025-11-28 15:00 | Charles Sturt University Bathurst, Panorama Avenue, South Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
The conference theme is On the Road: Making Ethical and Sustainable Decisions, but we welcome submissions on all aspects of business ethics. Don’t miss the opportunity to share your research with our supportive network.
We are delighted to have joining us as keynote speakers Prof Clive Hamilton and Prof Isabel Rimanoczy.
Conference Registrations – Now Open
The conference will be held 26–28 November 2025 at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW.
Register today via Eventbrite and take advantage of our early bird rates (until 31 October):

In-person: $250
Virtual: $100
In-person student: $90
Virtual student: $40

More details, including on accommodation options, can be found on the website here.

SIG Ethics Education- The challenge of Ethical Blindspots
2026-04-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
How do you teach people to see their ethical blindspot?
Join the discussion on ethical blindness, and ways to help students see their true reflection.

SIG Qualitative Research: Listening for Meaning
2026-04-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
Join the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group on Tuesday 21 April, 16.00-17.00 AEST for ‘Listening for Meaning: Why Interviews Matter’ with Guest Speaker: Dr Scott Taylor, Professor of Leadership & Organization Studies, University of Birmingham

SIG Accounting and Finance: 'Fraud in Aged Care’
2026-04-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
Join the Accounting and Finance Ethics Special Interest Group on Tuesday 28 April, 16.00-17.30 AEST for a Panel Discussion on ‘Fraud in Aged Care’.

Panellists:

Dr Michelle Cull – Associate Professor, Accounting & Financial Planning, Western Sydney University
Dr Helen Black – Aged Care Advocate; Accounting Educator & Researcher, Western Sydney University
Greg Cunningham CFP – Practitioner; PhD Researcher & Financial Planning Educator, Western Sydney University
Assyat David – Practitioner and Co‑founder of Aged Care Steps
Consumer representative
Dr Clare Burns — Facilitator and Researcher, Bond University

Mid-Year Conversation 2026
2026-06-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Online webinars, Online, Australia
Mid-Year Conversation – 4 June, 9.00-11.00am AEST
Topic: ‘Where is it going to end?’: The ethics of leadership in the tech sector – from Steve Jobs to Elon Musk
Speaker: Dr Scott Taylor, Professor of Leadership & Organisation Studies, University of Birmingham
Link: https://charlessturt.zoom.us/j/65677811058?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 656 7781 1058
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Contact: Alain Neher (aneher@csu.edu.au)

Overview
Business leadership is increasingly intertwined with socio-political leadership, as high-profile corporate leaders leverage their wealth, power, and celebrity status to intervene in state governance, including to the benefit of authoritarian state leaders. Such CEO activism raises significant ethical questions about their role in leading organisations and in democratic societies, including the possibility that the paradigmatic contemporary leadership of the tech sector is based on fascism’s core philosophical tenets (Matten, 2025). To explore this proposal, this research focuses on the most prominent corporate leader of this moment, Elon Musk, the companies he owns or leads, and two protest movements problematising his current political beliefs and management practices: the ‘Tesla Takedown’ grassroots movement, and Tesla mechanics currently striking in Sweden.

The presentation draws on research published with Emma Bell (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden) and research in progress with Emma and German Bender (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden).

Annual Conference and HDR workshop
2026-11-25 09:00 - 2026-11-27 15:30 | University of Western Australia, Australia
Please submit your up to a 750-word Abstract via this – 2026 ABEN Conference Submission Link, by 20 September.

If you would like to purchase a ticket to attend the conference now, please use this EventBrite Link.
