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_01 – Bridging the research-practice gap on sustainable business
Modern sustainability challenges call for joint efforts between academia and business in supporting the sustainability transition. However, the ‘gap’ between research and practice limit the transformative impact of research on business practice. The track tackles this gap, by welcoming contributions that explore sustainability challenges according to a research-practice co-creative approach, and that advance knowledge on how to close the research-practice gap in management studies. We aim at attracting empirical and theoretical contributions that inform research-practice co-creation in relation with environmental and social sustainability issues, also hosting discussants from the business sector to boost cross-fertilization in relation to this pressing challenge.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, 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 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 13: Climate action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Niccolò Maria Todaro, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – niccolomaria.todaro@
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_03 – Disruptive mobility for smart cities: It’s time to change!
Low-carbon mobility is at the heart of a new, sustainable transition of smart cities (Kley et al., 2011; Secinaro et al., 2021). Worldwide, many policy bodies are incentivizing manufacturers, vendors, and customers towards low-carbon forms of transportation (European Commission, 2021; OECD, 2014). Because of their varied, and often compact layout, researchers have identified opportunities for manufacturers of electric (EV) and hydrogen (FCEV) vehicles to create a multi-modal design paired with electric and traditional bicycles (Bigerna et al., 2016; Laurischkat et al., 2016; Graziano et all, 2020; Kazemzadeh & Bansal, 2021; Gallaher et al., 2021).
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 13: Climate action
Paolo Biancone, University of Turin – paolo.biancone@unito.it
T14_04 – Generational transformation of values and its impact on the youth’s motivation
Socio-economic and health crises, ecological anxiety and climate emergency, all impact the motivation of the young generation in the context of their studies, at workplace worldwide. This multidisciplinary track welcomes all methodological traditions and intends analysing to what extent the transformation of values among young generations can enable the transformation of business for good. We are looking for how and when young people are motivated, which factors influence their perception, attitudes and behaviours, how value transformation influence their work attitudes (e.g. work commitment and, engagement, creativity, helping behaviours, procrastination), how the youth interact with older generations, health and well-being related challenges…
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 4: Quality education
Elda Nasho Ah-Pine, ESC Clermont BS and CleRMA, Clermont Research Management Center, of the University of Clermont Auvergne – elda.nasho@esc-clermont.fr
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
Katerina Nicolopoulou, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland – katerina.nicolopoulou@strath.ac.uk
