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Call for papers on "Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability"

Special Issue in "Business Strategy and the Environment" (Wiley)

REMINDER (deadline 15th April, 2012)

A growing number of businesses is dealing with corporate sustainability issues. As corporate sustainability covers a wide range of complex topics such as emission reductions, biodiversity management, sustainability-oriented product and service innovation, sustainable supply chain management, or corporate influences on communities and regional development, its successful implementation depends on the contributions of experts from various disciplines in management, environmental science, psychology, sociology, economics, and related disciplines. In fact, the complexity of many sustainability challenges requires problem-solving approaches that transcend not only boundaries between academic disciplines but also between academics and practitioners. This is what transdisciplinarity is about. More specific, and as the full call for papers elaborates more in detail, transdisciplinarity can be described by the following characteristics:

- Real life challenge as starting point

- Complexity requires collaboration

- Joint clarification of the challenge at hand and collaborative problem definition

- Iterative joint problem-solving process

- No strict separation between knowledge production and knowledge transfer.

The way how complex sustainability problems can be managed involving a multitude of actors from different disciplines and different practical background experiences is still not entirely clear. What kind of approaches can support such transdisciplinary projects and processes for management? This call for papers invites studies that provide insights which will provide corporate managers and academics with new and much-needed transdisciplinary approaches of corporate sustainable development. Academics should be interested in this special issue because it will contain theoretical approaches, corporate practices that are empirically tested, and contributions to theory development.

Please see the full call for papers attached or at the journal's website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-0836/homepage/custom_copy.htm

Though the special issue is also linked to a dedicated track at the "Leuphana Sustainability Summit" (which took place in March 2012 at Leuphana University Lueneburg), we strongly encourage contributions from all interested scholars (and practitioners).

Submission deadline (full papers): 15th April, 2012

Guest editors:

Stefan Schaltegger, Markus Beckmann, Erik G. Hansen

Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

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Dr. Erik G. Hansen
Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Scharnhorststr. 1
D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany