AOM 2015 Professional Development Workshop

AOM 2015 Professional Development Workshop ‘Designing Sustainable Governance’

Saturday August 8th, 11:30-1:30 Vancouver Convention Centre Room 206

We invite you to join us for the PDW ‘Designing Sustainable Governance’. Building on this year’s theme of ‘Opening Governance’ we will explore how institutions, organizations, and practices can be creatively designed to facilitate the sustainable and innovative management of resources. In particular, we will focus on integrating a deep sustainability outlook – one which seeks to act in accordance with the biophysical limits of Earth’s resources and carrying capacity for life – into organizational perspectives and actions. This insight is crucial if we, as scholars and practitioners, expect to contribute to organizations that move beyond discourse and symbolic action towards addressing our growing ecological crises in more meaningful ways.

We will use this theme to explore how deep sustainability could be integrated into diverse research streams and levels of analysis to incorporate it more effectively within broader research conversations.

The workshop is divided into three parts: first, keynote addresses by Bob Hinings, Neil Philcox, and Stuart Hart. Next, participants can choose one of three roundtables, each one guided by our keynote speakers and facilitators around the following themes:

1) Re/designing resource governance: How can we re/design more effective and equitable institutional arrangements for the conservation and distribution of the resources of the commons?

2) Re/designing sustainable organizations: How can organizational structures and their constituent practices be re/designed such that their overall activities are more environmentally and socially sustainable?

3) Re/designing innovation processes: What can practices such as ‘agile,’ ‘frugal,’ and ‘lean’ innovation teach us about how to create new value networks with fewer resources that are less taxing on the environment than existing products and services?

Finally, our panel of experts, Andrew Hoffman, Judith Walls, and Tyler Wry will discuss insights gained from the discussion and avenues for future research.

No registration is required. We look forward to seeing you there.

Organizers

Winston Kwon, University of Edinburgh

Raymond Paquin, Concordia University

Rajshree Prakash, Concordia University

Keynote Speakers

–1– Stuart Hart, University of Vermont School of Business

Bob Hinings, University of Alberta

Neil Philcox, Co-founder, Grand Basin Capital, Vancouver, BC

Facilitators

Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan

Guillaume Pain, Concordia University

Judith Walls, Nanyang Technological University

Tyler Wry, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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