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Panelist: Tobias Hahn, Kedge Business School
Panelist: Wendy K. Smith, U. of Delaware
Chair: Lutz Preuss, U. of Sussex
Panelist: Pratima Bansal, U. of Western Ontario
Panelist: Jason Jesurum Jay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panelist: Michael V. Russo, U. of Oregon
Moderator: Guido Palazzo, U. of Lausanne
Moderator: Garima Sharma, Ivey Business School, Western U.
Moderator: Natalie Slawinski, Memorial U. of Newfoundland
Moderator: Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Queen Mary U. of London
Moderator: Jeffrey G. York, U. of Colorado, Boulder
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| Organizations and their leaders face sustainability challenges – the need to succeed for today without compromising the economic, environmental and, social foundations of future success. Yet achieving sustainability is complex, requiring leaders to address multiple, competing demands simultaneously. Leaders must achieve short term goals, while planning for the long term. They must achieve financial outcomes without neglecting environmental and social issues. They must engage shareholders, while building connections with a broader stakeholder base. They must cooperate with other firms, even as they compete for resources and market share. Attending to these tensions is challenging, in particular as they are not only contradictory, but also highly interrelated and persistent over time; that is they are paradoxical. Increasingly, sustainability scholars adopt paradox theory to help elucidate the nature and responses to these tensions. In this PDW, we seek to advance scholarship linking sustainability and paradox. Our PDW beings with experts in sustainability and in paradox theory exploring how a paradox lens can deepen insights about sustainability, while also uncovering how sustainability can extend our understanding of paradox. We then offer significant time in facilitated table discussions for participants to apply these ideas to their own work and generate future research opportunities. This PDW builds on four years of successful paradox PDWs which each attracted 70-100 participants. We believe this year’s theme, bringing together paradox theory and sustainability, will appeal to and help inform an even larger audience. In doing so, we hope to advance our collective insight and support long term organizational sustainability. |
| Search Terms: Paradox | Sustainability | Research |
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