Session Type: Symposium Program Session: 618 | Submission: 12568 | Sponsor(s): (AAT) Scheduled: Sunday, Aug 6 2017 12:15PM - 1:45PM at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Techwood   Systems & Sustainability: Towards a New Research Agenda Systems & Sustainability	View Map
Organizer: Sylvia Grewatsch, Ivey Business School, Western U. Organizer: Christina Bidmon, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences
The overall aim of the symposium is to introduce system perspectives to a wide audience and to use business sustainability as an illustrative context for how the application of systems thinking needs to be strengthened in management research. Business sustainability provides a meaningful context, because early sustainability research was grounded in systems thinking and stressed the need to apply a systems paradigm. But business sustainability research has primarily analyzed individual system components and their interdependencies. Instead of addressing complex sustainability phenomena, the main emphasis has been on improving organizational performance and understanding institutional conditions. Therefore, we invite leading scholars from different disciplines to facilitate a dialogue and to work towards a future research agenda at the interface of systems and sustainability research.
Search Terms: Systems perspective | sustainability | sustainability transition
Sustainability Transitions: The Emerging Field of Research and Connections to Management Studies Presenter: Jochen Markard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH The Emergence of New Conceptual Spaces around Sustainability Presenter: Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State U. Presenter: Wenpin Tsai, Pennsylvania State U. Presenter: Thinley Tharchen, Pennsylvania State U. Distinguishing Business Models for Sustainability between Start-Ups and Incumbents Presenter: Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana U. Lüneburg Presenter: Matthew Johnson, U. of Hamburg How do Companies make Collective Sense of Systemic Sustainability Challenges? Presenter: Gail Whiteman, Lancaster U. Management School Presenter: John N. Parker, Arizona State U. Presenter: Steven Kennedy, Rotterdam School of Management Presenter: Amanda Nicole Williams, Erasmus U. Rotterdam The Emergence of Responsible Investing: A Robust Action Perspective Presenter: Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School Transitional Challenges in the Diffusion of Alternative Fuel Vehicles Presenter: David R. Keith, MIT Sloan School of Management Complexity Theory and Sustainability in Business: Theory and Testing of Two Frameworks Presenter: Terry B. Porter, U. of Maine Presenter: Randall Reischer, U. of Maine Four Principles of Complexity Theory for Sustainability Presenter: Benyamin Lichtenstein, U. of Massachusetts, Boston
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