CRESG 2021

The 2021 International Workshop on Creative Research for Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Technically Sponsored by ICRP

Workshop Overview

The 2021 International Workshop on Creative Research for Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (CRESG 2021) will be held in JeJu, in conjunction with PlatCon-19, during 23-25 August 2021. The concept of Creative Research (CR) is to provide many fresh and innovative ideas to see our daily research works from diverse perspectives. In CR, our research works can be pleasures and adventures, and this change of thinking can make us more enthusiastic and more focusing on our research works with great excitement.

From Wikipedia, the concept of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) refers to metrics related to intangible assets within the enterprise, a form of corporate social credit score. Research [1] and [2] show that intangible assets comprise an increasing percentage of future enterprise value. While there are many ways to think of intangible asset metrics, the three conceptual factors together, ESG, comprise a label that has been adopted throughout the United States financial industry and also many developed countries. They are used for a myriad of specific purposes with the ultimate objective of measuring elements related to sustainability and societal impact of a company or business.

[1] Ocean Tomo, "Intangible Asset Market Value Study"  (page visited on 16 July 2021)

[2] Robert Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim, "Is sustainability now the key to corporate success? Companies that adopted environmental, social and governance policies in the 1990s have outperformed those that didn't", The Guardian, 6 January 2012 (page visited on 16 July 2021).

We are sure that CR for ESG will give a big and fresh change to the traditional research works in the fields of Business Management, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Management Information System (MIS), and Data Protection. The CRESG 2021 will be a good forum to discuss current trends and future directions of CR and CR for ESG. We eventually hope that the CRESG 2021 will be a good starting point for spreading Creative Research about all science, social science, and liberal arts areas as well as IT-related areas.

Actually, the CRESG 2021 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Workshop on CR, previously held as CRET 2019 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2019), CRET 2018 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2018), CRET 2017 (Busan, Korea, Feb. 2017), CRET 2016 (Jeju, Korea, Feb. 2016), CRET 2015 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2015) and CRCC 2014 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2014),

The first topic of this CR workshop series was "Computing & Communication", and the second topic was "Education & Technology". Now its primary concerns are focused on ESG.

Workshop Organization

General Chairs

Hangbae Chang, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Daesik Ko, Senior Vice-President, ICT Platform Society, Korea

Program Chair

Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea

Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

Young-Ae Jung, Sun Moon University, Korea

Topics

The CRESG 2021 includes all theory and practice topics of ESG, and of course all topics of CR for social science, business management, information technology including, but not limited to:

• Corporate Governance

  • Environmental Concerns, Climate Crisis, and Sustainability

• Corporate Ethics

• Human Rights and Consumer Protections

• Business Sustainability

• Corporate and Third Sector Organizations

• Critical ESG Theory Development

• ESG & Digital revolution

• ESG & Positive Impact

• ESG & Reputation

• ESG and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• ESG Evaluation and Reporting

• ESG in Education

• ESG in Developing Markets

• ESG in Human Resource Management

• ESG in the Crisis

• ESG in Tourism

• ESG in Financial companies

• ESG in Information Technology

• ESG Issues relating to Personal Data and Cross-border data transfer

• ESG Issues relating to Multinational Enterprises

• ESG Networks and Co-operations

• Employee and Corporate Volunteering

• Inclusive Capitalism

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to ESG

• New Sustainable Business Models

• Reconciling the Interests of Management and Workers

• Responsible Finance and Investment

• Self-Regulations, Codes of Conduct & Voluntary Compliance

• Socially Responsible Finance and Banking

• Stakeholder Management

• Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

• Sustainable Business Models

• Sustainable Supply Chain

  • The Future of ESG

  • The role of Governments in ESG

  • The Role of NGOs and other Elements of Civil Society in ESG

• Woman Rights and Workplace Environment

• Workplace Safety

• Smart Grid, Micro Grid, AMI, and SCADA

• Renewable Energy and Power Plant

  • Energy Market

  • Personal Data Protection

  • Cross-border Data Transfer

  • other topics

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due : Tuesday, 3rd August, 2021

  • Authors Notification : Monday, 9th August, 2021

  • Camera-Ready Paper Due : Friday, 13th August, 2021

  • Author Registration Due : Friday, 13th August, 2021

• Workshop Dates : 23rd - 25th August, 2021  (as one or two sessions of PlatCon-21)

Paper Submission (short paper or full paper)

• • Authors should submit their 3-6 page short/full papers to the following EDAS system for review: https://edas.info/N26509

• Please make sure that you MUST select "Workshop: CRESG 2021" and then select topics.

  • You can download a paper format (A4-size) and further information for paper formatting here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Practitioner Presentation (1-page abstract)

• The CRESG 2021 seeks to connect business practices and thus invites abstract submissions for presentation from practitioners in corporate and NGO.

  • Practitioners should submit their 1-page abstract to the following EDAS system for quick review: https://edas.info/N26509

• Please make sure that you MUST select "Workshop: CRESG 2021" and then select topics.

  • You can download a paper format (A4-size) and further information for paper formatting here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html 

  • However, the length of the manuscript should be only within 1-page, and the manuscript should have the title and authors(presenters), and it could have company's information, summary, figures, diagrams, and/or work-in-progress contents.

Proceedings & Journal Publications

The procedure of CRESG 2021 follows the rules and policies of the main conference Track 1, but the CRESG 2021 has the different deadlines. All accepted papers of CRESG 2021 will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings which will be distributed at the conference.

At least one author of each accepted paper and each accepted practitioner presentation MUST make an author registration and payment for the paper by the specified deadline. All accepted papers and practitioner presentation should be presented at the scheduled sessions of the conference on site or on a virtual platform.

Contacts

If you have enquiries about the CRESG 2021, please contact Sang-Soo Yeo, ssyeo@ieee.org