Showcase Symposium
Paradox & Sustainability: Moving Beyond the Business Case
Program Session #: 1270
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 10 2015 1:15PM - 2:45PM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 207
Organizers: Garima Sharma (Ivey Business School, Western University) and Tobias Hahn (Kedge Business School)
Chair: Alfred Allen Marcus (University of Minnesota)
Presenters: Andrew Hoffman and Lianne Lefsrud (U of Michigan); Natalie Slawinski (Memorial U. of Newfoundland); Garima Sharma and Tima Bansal (Ivey Business School, Western U); Jonatan Pinkse (U of Manchester), Tobias Hahn (Kedge Business School), Frank Figge (Kedge Business School) and Lutz Preuss (U. of London); Ina Ehnert (U. Catholique de Louvain), Jean-Pascal Gond (Cass Business School, City U. London), and Valérie Swaen (Louvain School of Management)
We invite you to join our symposium on business sustainability and paradox. Business sustainability is inherently paradoxical since the skills, resources, and expectations of stakeholders related to profitability goals are often at odds with those for social and environmental goals. Yet, the business case for sustainability masks the underlying paradox, which has likely hampered the ability of organizations to act sustainably and undermined sustainability in broader ecological, social and economic systems.
The objective of the symposium is to explore (1) the locus of the paradox, i.e., how does it manifest in the goals, processes and/or identity of the firms with regard to contradictory but interrelated sustainability aspects; (2) the cognitive, practice-based and institutional ways to navigate and address the paradox; and (3) the characteristics of paradoxical sustainability outcomes, i.e. their generative and processual nature as different from the business case outcomes.
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Garima Sharma
Post Doctoral Fellow
Ivey Business School &
Network for Business Sustainability
gsharma@ivey.uwo.ca
Webpage: http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/phd/people/postdoc-fellows/garima-sharma
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