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Climate Change: Challenging Business, Transforming Politics

EGOS Colloquium 2008

10 – 12 July 2008, Amsterdam, NL

http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo24/sub_19.shtml

*** abstracts due 13 January 2008 *** Please distribute widely ****

Dear colleagues,

The Bali Roadmap, hammered out today after a long and stressful fortnight of negotiations, is a clear signal that the world is ready to act to prevent dangerous climate change and assist in the adaptation to erratic climate events in poorer countries.  Countries have given themselves two years to agree on adequate targets globally.  Let's not sit back and watch our governments as they promise to take action.  As researchers, teachers and citizens, we must investigate ways out of the climate crisis and examine proposals and action plans.  

At the next European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium in Amsterdam, we are proposing to do just that – analyze how society can move forward to mitigate and adapt to climate change.  If you have not done so already, this is your chance to apply the theories that you are developing, the knowledge in other areas of social change that you have gathered as well as your advanced analytical skills to the discussions centering on this most pressing issue of our times.

In this stream, we hope to bring momentum to the study of climate change action within management and organization theory and hence contribute to the knowledge on solutions to climate change.  We are planning to propel this knowledge through the publishing of a special issue.

Attached you find our call for papers, which is also accessible at the Sustainability and Climate Research Centre website www.erim.eur.nl/scr.  Please submit your abstract through the EGOS website at www.egosnet.org no later than 13 January 2008.

We hope to see you in Amsterdam!

Best wishes for the holiday season,

Bettina Wittneben (with Chuks Okereke and Bobby Banerjee)

Bettina B.F. Wittneben,

MBA (Alberta), PhD (Cambridge)

Assistant Professor, Business-Society Management

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Room T7-15

Burg, Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, NL

Tel: +31.(0)10.408.1964

Fax: +31.(0)10.408.9012

Director, Sustainability and Climate Research Centre

Erasmus Research Institute of Management

www.erim.eur.nl/scr

Convenor

Climate Change – Challenging Business, Transforming Politics

European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium,

Amsterdam, July 2008

www.egosnet.org