Tracks Sponsored by the 2023 Conference Committee. This track welcomes submissions related to our conference theme “Transform Business for Good”. This track will also consider submissions which do not fit into other tracks. More information about the conference theme.
SIG chair: Jongwook Pak
GT14_00 General Track – Towards the New Paradigm of Business and Management
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 2: Zero hunger, Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Jongwook Pak , Trinity College Dublin, pakj@tcd.ie
GT14_00 General Track - Towards the New Paradigm of Business and Management
GENERAL TRACK 2023
T14_02 – Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Business and Management Education
As business educators, we have the responsibility to prepare graduates for a complex world, facing challenging tensions in various aspects of society: economic, social, societal and environmental. In the age of the Anthropocene, how do we help and train students to become change agents for a more sustainable future? This track critically appraises the deep issues concerning the development of a sustainability mindset in business students, to train sustainable, ethical, responsible and reflexive managers and leaders of the future. From a faculty perspective, we ask how faculty can produce societal and environmentally impactful and credible knowledge.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Peter Daly, EDHEC Business School – peter.daly@edhec.edu
T14_05 – (Ir)responsible transformational technologies and the Future of work: dilemmas and mitigations
Transformational’ technologies are reconfiguring practical, analytical and spatial dimensions of workplaces and the nature of work itself. The long-term impact of these innovations remains unclear, leaving managers/leaders struggling to understand how to capitalize on their potential benefits whilst also avoiding downsides. We invite submissions from multi-disciplinary practitioners and researchers interested in the practical and ethical implications of transformational technologies in organizations, with an emphasis on the dilemmas they present. This is to inform an agenda for future research and to augment existing guidelines and frameworks for the responsible, human-centered design and evaluation of these innovations in the context of work.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities
Aizhan Tursunbayeva, Parthenope University of Naples – a.tursunbayeva@uniparthenope.it
T14_06 – Sport Governance for Good
We aim to develop new perspectives on the responsible management and governance in sport organizations. We focus both on corporate governance and on institutional or legal frameworks that enable stakeholders of sport to better manage or supervise sport organizations and projects. We seek to gain a deeper understanding of the unique development in sports, its logic of co-creation of value and the advancement of the industry transformation. The track aims to cover all management issues and welcomes papers that address a range of topics related to sporting issues and particularities of the management of sport organisations, including stakeholder approach.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Igor Perechuda, Jagiellonian University in Krakow – igor.perechuda@uj.edu.pl
T14_07 – Sustainability and the Black Box of the Firm
Strategic management and economics are jammed with thin accounts of the firm, where the inner workings of enterprises are left unexplained. This has been carried over to stakeholder scholarship, where sustainable enterprise behavior is a matter of ethical willpower rather than organizational mechanisms. This topic forum invites academics to contribute scholarship that relies on a mechanism-based approach in search of endogenous determinants of pro-sustainability enterprise behavior, thus contributing to opening the black box of the firm.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 13: Climate action, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Alejandro Agafonow, ESSCA School of Management – alejandro.agafonow@essca.fr
T14_08 – Sustainability transitions, flows and entrepreneurial alterity in global urban contexts
The proposed topic aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform that will highlight a unique aspect of Sustainability Transitions, namely understanding flows implicating alternative forms of Enterprise within urban spaces; business actors are at the core of such flows and are central to the organization of economy, either in the form of the for-profit enterprises or in alternative formats, based on diverse agendas related to sustainability, society and the economy. Examining the flows that are associated with them reveals another way to conceptualise space in Sustainability Transitions.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Ulrich Leicht-Deobald, Trinty College Dublin, leichtdu@tcd.ie
