88: Corporate Sustainability: Imperatives and Challenges (10479)

Friday, August 9, 2024

10:00 – 12:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Marriott: Addison

Session Number: 88
PDW (workshop)
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/qdm3q5

Organizer(s)

JM

Jeremy Moon

Copenhagen Business School Department of Management, Society and Communication, Denmark

Handouts
MM

Mette Morsing

professor, United Kingdom

Presenter(s)

JK

Jette Steen Knudsen

Tufts U., United States
SJ

Sarah Jack

Lancaster U. Management School, United Kingdom
AO

Afua Konadu Owusu-Kwarteng

-, United Kingdom

Discussant(s)

AC

Andrew Crane

U. of Bath, United Kingdom
SI

Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim

American U. in Cairo, Egypt
TJ

Tanusree Jain

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Session Chair(s)

RP

Robert A. Phillips

Schulich School of Business, York U., Canada

This PDW explores the concept of Corporate Sustainability (CS), specifically its meaning and its imperatives & challenges for innovation, policy and purpose of corporations, and thus for business & management researchers and educators. The presenters are editors and authors of a recent graduate level text (Rasche et. al. Eds. 2023 Corporate Sustainability: Managing Responsible Business in a Globalised World Cambridge; review in AMLE https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2023.0320). The PDW addresses the imperatives & challenges that CS brings which go well beyond those of the conventional business models of shareholder and stakeholder capitalism. These include engagement with full societal and planetary responsibility, the integration of market approaches, and a more collaborative relationship with regulators, public and private. The imperatives and challenges are addressed in respect of four key questions: how does CS relate to corporate social responsibility?; how does CS relate to government policy?; how does CS relate to international development?; what are the leadership and governance challenges of sustainability transitions? The Panel Discussion brings in questions arising in neighboring fields and from the global South. PDW participants frame the concluding discussion with their questions about the teaching and research issues and skills raised by CS. It is suggested that participants familiarize themselves with the opening chapter of the text, ‘Corporate Sustainability – what is it and why it matters’: https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/corporate-sustainability/1D6311AD91139D896E6A119FEB82DB7C/resources/instructor-resources/1922634DC8EBFE635EBF38EA27E51498 (go to ‘General Resources’)