ILO Enterprise Forum 96: The 4 Themes of the Enterprise Forum 96

ILO Enterprise Forum 96

The Themes of the Enterprise Forum 96

The four key themes affecting enterprises today concern changes in the world economy, job creation, social initiatives and the future of enterprises and the social partners. Expert presentations are being prepared to highlight these issues to help stimulate discussion on the real and potential contributions of enterprises and entrepreneurs.

Theme 1 : CHANGES AFFECTING THE WORLD ECONOMY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTERPRISES AND THE ILO

Key Issue: How enterprises can respond to, and solve, emerging global development issues, and forge new initiatives and linkages.

Discussion paper by Jacques Marcovitch Professor of University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Theme 2: ENTERPRISES AND JOBS

Key issue: How companies, social partners and the ILO can cope with this issue, and how would this will be reflected in the 1997/98 International Labour Conference discussion on "General Conditions for Stimulating Job Creation in SMEs".

Discussion paper by Dr. Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and of Planning University of California at Berkeley

Discussion paper by María Angélica Ducci, Chief, Training Policies and Systems Branch, ILO, Geneva. With the collaboration of Aysé Mitchell, Senior Policy Adviser

Discussion paper by Michael J. Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, United States

Theme 3 : SOCIAL INITIATIVES BY ENTERPRISES

Key issue: How competing interests and pressures on business can be reconciled.

Discussion paper by Howard Gospel Professor of Oxford University, United Kingdom

Theme 4 : THE FUTURE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL PARTNERS AT THE ENTERPRISE LEVEL

Key issue: The implications for the social partners, both in general, and in relation to such areas as collective bargaining, workplace negotiations, employee share holdings.

Discussion paper by Russell D. Lansbury, Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Sydney, Australia

Updated by BB. Approved by MH. Last update: 21 February 1997