Join our PDW: Making the Paradigm Shift Happen: Following the Lead of Business Associations, Session 329
Saturday, August 5, 2023, 9:30-11:30 am, Cambridge Room, Park Plaza Hotel
Join us if you can: Sandra Waddock, Irene Henriques, Martina Linnenlueck, Nicholas Poggioli, and Steffen Boehm
Abstract: How can business schools catch up to companies on transforming business and economies towards a flourishing world for all? We convene a discussion of this question in the context of an increasing gap between how business schools research and teach and how companies practice business. Business schools lag practice, remaining focused on frameworks like triple bottom line and corporate sustainable development that have largely disappeared from practice. Meanwhile, companies and business associations push forward with frontier methodologies for empirically linking practices to environmental impacts and with collaborative strategies for transforming industry-wide production and consumption systems. The World Economic Forum, Ellen McArthur Foundation, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development describe and organize for fundamental transformations in business practice that scholars arguably need to catch up with. As the business transition accelerates, business schools need to transition our own research and teaching systems to match what's happening in practice. We convene an interactive PDW using a design-based approach to catalyze research and increase collaboration and ideas on ways management research can achieve change and social impact. Provocations include: Sandra Waddock (Boston College) framing the discussion as above, Nicholas Poggioli (Appalachian State U) discussing structural changes needed, Irene Henriques (York U) on measuring social impact, Steffan Boehm (Exeter U) outlining circular economy, and Martina Linnenluecke (Macquarie U) speaking to sustainable finance. The PDW will develop specific actions management scholars can take to keep business schools important and relevant during a time of rapid, systemic change in business practice.
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Sandra Waddock
Galligan Chair of Strategy
Boston College
Carroll School of Management]
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
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