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Colleagues,

Are you interested in researching or teaching about clean technology or green product design?

Are you concerned about endocrine-disrupting chemicals and wondering from where cleaner substances will come and how they will move from bench scale discoveries to industrial scale production facilities?

Are you looking for interesting case studies of innovation, commercialization of environmental technologies or eco-preneurship?

Are you looking for interesting case studies of pollution prevention and environmental risk management?

Are you looking for a science-based framework for connecting issues as seemingly disparate as environmental health, climate change and resource efficiency, as well as for understanding the greening of individual firms or entire sectors?

If so, the Professional Development Workshop to be held at the Academy of Management's Annual Meeting in Boston, and described below, will be of interest to you.

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                                                                                        50 Years after Silent Spring:                                                                  

The Past, Present and Future of the Global Chemical Enterprise

Friday, August 03, 2012 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place, Salon H

This PDW honors the 50^th anniversary of the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring by bringing "toxics" back to the fore of scholarship on organizations and the natural environment. It will introduce "green chemistry" to management scholars; describe its scientific, commercial and regulatory dimensions and place these into historical context; and illustrate green chemistry's central role in innovation for business sustainability.

Participants will explore the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of business sustainability and industry-scale chemistry by identifying ways to integrate perspectives on green chemistry into their own research and teaching. The PDW aims to develop a community of scholars that is interested in research that uses the chemicals sector as a site for developing knowledge about business sustainability and innovation; and in teaching business students and executives about green chemistry, its role in sustainable development and its importance for corporate environmental strategy.

Co-organizers:           Steve Maguire (McGill U)

Robert Peoples (American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute)

Facilitators:                Pratima Bansal (Western U)

Stephanie Bertels (Simon Fraser U)

Arthur Daemmrich (Harvard Business School)
Andrew Hoffman (U Michigan)

Andrew Nelson (U Oregon) 
Deborah Steketee (Aquinas College)

Who Should Attend: This PDW is designed for management academics with an interest in researching about sustainable development, corporate environmental strategy and innovation, i.e. scholars from ONE and TIM. It will also be of interest to OMT scholars interested in change in institutional fields; and to BPS scholars interested in the implications of technological and regulatory change on industries and firm strategies. On the pedagogy front, it will have great value for scholars interested in incorporating green chemistry into teaching of courses about business sustainability, corporate environmental strategy, strategies for sustainable development, etc., as it will direct them to relevant tools and materials (e.g. ppt slides for lectures, case studies, etc.).

For information on how to register:

http://program.aomonline.org/2012/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=16162

I look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Steve

_______________________________________________________

Steve Maguire

Director, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management

Desautels Chair in Integrated Management

Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization

Desautels Faculty of Management - McGill University

1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 1G5, Canada

t. +1.514.398.2115

f. +1.514.398.3876

steve.maguire@mcgill.ca

Colleagues,

Are you interested in researching or teaching about clean technology or green product design?

Are you concerned about endocrine-disrupting chemicals and wondering from where cleaner substances will come and how they will move from bench scale discoveries to industrial scale production facilities?

Are you looking for interesting case studies of innovation, commercialization of environmental technologies or eco-preneurship?

Are you looking for interesting case studies of pollution prevention and environmental risk management?

Are you looking for a science-based framework for connecting issues as seemingly disparate as environmental health, climate change and resource efficiency, as well as for understanding the greening of individual firms or entire sectors?

If so, the Professional Development Workshop to be held at the Academy of Management's Annual Meeting in Boston, and described below, will be of interest to you.

***

                                                                                        50 Years after Silent Spring:                                                                  

The Past, Present and Future of the Global Chemical Enterprise

Friday, August 03, 2012 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place, Salon H

This PDW honors the 50^th anniversary of the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring by bringing "toxics" back to the fore of scholarship on organizations and the natural environment. It will introduce "green chemistry" to management scholars; describe its scientific, commercial and regulatory dimensions and place these into historical context; and illustrate green chemistry's central role in innovation for business sustainability.

Participants will explore the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of business sustainability and industry-scale chemistry by identifying ways to integrate perspectives on green chemistry into their own research and teaching. The PDW aims to develop a community of scholars that is interested in research that uses the chemicals sector as a site for developing knowledge about business sustainability and innovation; and in teaching business students and executives about green chemistry, its role in sustainable development and its importance for corporate environmental strategy.

Co-organizers:           Steve Maguire (McGill U)

Robert Peoples (American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute)

Facilitators:                Pratima Bansal (Western U)

Stephanie Bertels (Simon Fraser U)

Arthur Daemmrich (Harvard Business School)
Andrew Hoffman (U Michigan)

Andrew Nelson (U Oregon) 
Deborah Steketee (Aquinas College)

Who Should Attend: This PDW is designed for management academics with an interest in researching about sustainable development, corporate environmental strategy and innovation, i.e. scholars from ONE and TIM. It will also be of interest to OMT scholars interested in change in institutional fields; and to BPS scholars interested in the implications of technological and regulatory change on industries and firm strategies. On the pedagogy front, it will have great value for scholars interested in incorporating green chemistry into teaching of courses about business sustainability, corporate environmental strategy, strategies for sustainable development, etc., as it will direct them to relevant tools and materials (e.g. ppt slides for lectures, case studies, etc.).

For information on how to register:

http://program.aomonline.org/2012/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=16162

I look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Steve

_______________________________________________________

Steve Maguire

Director, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management

Desautels Chair in Integrated Management

Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization

Desautels Faculty of Management - McGill University

1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 1G5, Canada

t. +1.514.398.2115

f. +1.514.398.3876

steve.maguire@mcgill.ca