Value Statements

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• Griffith Business School

  The Griffith Business School is committed to sustainable business practices focusing on social, financial and environmental approaches that will benefit future generations, driving change by working with industry and giving students the skills to develop better solutions for current and future problems around the world. Believing sustainability and global corporate social responsibility should be taken as seriously as the bottom line, the Griffith Business School is incorporating these principles across a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, executive education and training programs. Through our programs and courses students develop skills and networks to advance their careers in both the private and public sectors. Local, national and international employers confirm our graduates add considerable breadth and depth to their organisation, are flexible critical thinkers and make excellent team leaders –providing the right blend of analytical and creative skills.

  International collaborations with organisations and institutions aligned with the School's ethos provide us with important opportunities to contribute to the global discussion about the role of business in society. This is why we are proud to be a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Business in Society. The Academy's commitment to developing global networks to work together on building understanding and practical responses to the increasing number of serious global issues facing the Asia Pacific region is an important addition to our own international network. The School congratulates Dr Juliet Roper on taking establishing the Academy.

• INSEAD

  INSEAD is a global business school with a keen interest in Social Innovation. Having been a pioneer in the creation of EABIS and with a campus in Asia, it is only natural for the school to be a founding member of APABIS as well.

• La Trobe

  The Asia Pacific Academy of Business in Society (APABIS) is a new initiative of the region to which La Trobe University, Faculty of Law and Management is delighted to join. Various business disciplines in the Faculty have been taught since the creation of the University. They have a proud history of engagement with the world and academic innovation. The original commitment to a socially engaged community continues into the present day with the most recent vision statement demanding that the University

  “…will achieve wide recognition for delivering socially responsible, inclusive, relevant and radical learning, teaching and research.”
  It is with this strategic imperative that a wide range of teaching, research and internationalisation strategies are being developed. The commitment to APABIS is an important element of the Faculty’s contribution to the University’s vision.

  The contact at La Trobe University is Professor Carol Adams, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Law and Management and Professor of Accounting and Sustainable Development Strategy.

  Tel +61 3 9479 2680
  Fax +61 3 9479 1484
  Mobile +61 (0)417 026 263

• Nihal Kaviratne

  “When it comes to good corporate citizenship, many companies opt to take the easy route. They give donations to political parties, sponsor musical concerts and community events, or set aside some of their profits for philanthropic and charitable causes, often those related to disaster relief and rehabilitation. Clean and easy. Nothing wrong with this, except that it is ad hoc and lacks sustainable impact.

  Business thrives best when its social responsibility becomes an integral part of the value creation process, enhancing the competitiveness of the company, building corporate brand equity, and driving growth. “Ownership” of a business by local communities is the most powerful route to success and growth.

  I believe the sharing forum provided by APABIS can make a real difference in propagating this integrative model, resulting in the improvement of iconic Corporate brands, built to last.”

  - Nihal Kaviratne CBE, Independent Non-Executive Director - Agro Tech Foods Limited, Foosti Pte. Ltd., Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd., Fullerton Securities and Wealth Advisors Ltd., Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd., GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd., ICI India Limited, PT TVS Motor Company , StarHub Ltd., Titan Industries Limited, TVS Motor Company (Europe) BV, Wildlife Reserves Singapore Pte. Ltd., Founder -St. Jude India ChildCare Centres

• University of South Australia

  "For business to remain relevant in the modern age, it has to become sustainable business. We see around us, globally, the results of decades of unsustainable business, with all its effects on the global environment, on the inequitable health and living standards of whole populations and, in recent times, rapidly declining global prosperity. Yet there is no institution more capable of, and more central to, the rebuilding of global well-being than business. The building of sustainable business is a great endeavour which will require the collaborative work of universities, corporations, governments and local communities. Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship is central to the task. APABIS is leading the way on this crucial endeavour in the Asia-Pacific region, and I'm delighted to be associated with it, on behalf of my students and the University of South Australia."

  Dr Geoffrey Wells, Dean of External Engagement, Division of Business, University of South Australia 

• Waikato University Management School

  “The Waikato University Management School has made a fundamental commitment to sustainability, in our teaching, research and operations. We believe in the collaborative role that business, governments and academia must take in creating socially and environmentally responsible communities. APABIS can play a vital part in that collaboration for the Asia Pacific region and we are proud to have been associated with it since its conception.”

  Frank Scrimgeour, Dean, Waikato University Management School.