Business schools through their diffusion of management skills and ideas are playing an increasing role in the governance of our organizations, societies, and environment. Such hegemony has led to both positive and negative outcomes. The time is now for business schools to take the lead of the global movement towards sustainable development – development that provides for the needs of organizations and society, both today and tomorrow, in an equitable way.
The purpose of the Ivey Sustainability Conference is to create an inclusive community of scholars who are eager to push the frontiers of knowledge towards sustainable development and the creation of an equitable and inclusive bio-economy. Researchers from all disciplines and career stages are welcome to attend and participate in the conference. At a time when intellectual discourse seems to be divisive, we hope that, through this conference, we can build safe, stimulating arenas for the scientific community to engage and grow intellectually, in order to assure the prosperity for all.
Agenda
Thursday, December 5
| Time | Description |
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12:30 – 1:00 p.m. |
Arrival |
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1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Opening Remarks |
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1:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Presentations & Lightning Spots (with breaks throughout) |
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6:00 – 9:00 p.m. |
Activity and Dinner |
Friday, December 6
| Time | Description |
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8:45 a.m. |
Arrival |
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9 a.m. |
Opening remarks |
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9:05 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Presentations & Lightning Spots (with breaks throughout) |
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12:30 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
Presentations |
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3:30 – 4:00 p.m. |
Reflections |
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4:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Activity and Closing Reception |
Hotels
The preferred hotel for this event is the Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre. Complimentary shuttle service between the hotel and the Ivey building (location of conference) is provided throughout the day. We recommend booking as soon as possible in order to secure a room. Other recommended hotels in the area include: Delta London Armouries, Idlewyld Inn, and Hotel Metro.
Confirmed Speakers
Marta B. Calás
Marta is Professor of Organization Studies and International Management in the Department of Management at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her scholarly work, often in collaboration with Professor Linda Smircich, emphasizes theory development and meta-theoretical questions to focus on the construction of organizational knowledge and its consequences. This interdisciplinary work is informed by advances in social sciences, humanities and some natural sciences coalescing in variations of feminist theorizing over time. She uses these gendered theoretical lenses to bring to visibility discursive and material articulations normalizing organization and management scholarship, questioning how organization processes and practices come to represent “the world as it is” while limiting possibilities for articulating and intervening in “the world that could become.” Her most recent works following this trajectory address problematics regarding the natural environment through the lenses of feminist new materialisms. Marta was one of the founding editors of the journal Organization in 1994, continuing as member of the EIC team for the following 15 years, and as part of the journal’s advisory board since then.
Aline Gatignon
Aline is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in management from INSEAD and a Master’s in development economics from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). She studies the design, implementation, and impact of cross-sector partnerships between multinational firms and nonprofit organizations across three continents. Her research explains how firms can leverage such collaborations to address nonmarket strategic issues (e.g., incomplete regulations, undereducated labor force, limited physical infrastructure) of mutual concern and how such efforts are contingent upon institutional conditions in emerging markets. The empirical settings for her work range from cross-country comparisons of corporate disaster response to regional studies of supply chain development in Brazil, CSR implementation in India, and access to healthcare across Sub-Saharan Africa. Aline is the 2023 recipient of the ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award. She sits on the editorial review boards for the Strategic Management Journal and Organizational Science, on the Executive Committee for the AOM STR division, and serves as representative-at-large for the SMS Stakeholder Strategy interest group.
V. Daniel R. Guide
V. Daniel R. is the Smeal Chaired Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University. For the last three decades his research has focused on closed-loop supply chains, remanufacturing, and sustainable operations. He is a regular contributor to numerous academic and managerial journals. Dan served as Co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Operations Management from 2011-2017. Additionally, he served as departmental co-editor for Sustainable Operations at Production and Operations Management from 2011-2014. He’s a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. Dan’s research on closed-loop supply chains has been supported by grants from the Carnegie Bosch Institute and the National Science Foundation. He also regularly partners with global organizations on a variety of supply chain, closed-loop supply chain and sustainability problems.
Charlene Zietsma
Charlene is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the School for Environment & Sustainability and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on individual, organizational and collective efforts to make (and resist) institutional change, primarily in the context of grand challenges associated with sustainability. She studies institutional work, logics, fields, social emotions and takes a process approach, using archival, interview and mixed methods. Professor Zietsma has held editorial and guest editorial roles with several journals and serves on the editorial board for the Academy of Management Journal.