Dear SIM colleagues
The last ten thousand years – the Holocene period – can be considered a "joyful ride" for humanity. In the new epoch in which humans are the dominant geological force (the Anthro-pocene) things will be changing dramatically... and (also) the issue of Urgency is a key one to consider...
Please kindly see below 2 related AOM PDWs that you may like to consider... Thanks.
Warmly,
Jose
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Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 294 | Submission: 11855 | Sponsor(s): (ONE, CMS, OMT)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 8 2015 9:00AM - 11:00AM at Offsite in Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery
The Anthropocene: Organizations and the Environment in a New Geological Epoch
Anthropocene Research
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Contact Chair: Jose Manuel Alcaraz, Murdoch U.
Contact Chair: Katerina Nicolopoulou, U. of Strathclyde
Contact Participant: Andrew J. Hoffman, U. of Michigan
Contact Participant: Paul Devereaux Dev Jennings, U. of Alberta
Contact Participant: John M Jermier, U. of South Florida
Contact Participant: Robert Perey, U. of Technology, Sydney
Contact Participant: Paul Shrivastava, Concordia U.
Contact Participant: Mark Starik, San Francisco State U.
Contact Participant: Gail Whiteman, Erasmus U. Rotterdam
The last ten thousand years – the Holocene period – can be considered a "joyful ride" for most of humanity: with exceptionally stable global temperatures, humankind adapted, flourished and created civilizations as we know them. Today humans have become a force of nature, reshaping the planet on a geological scale and driving the Earth into (what is being increasingly termed as) a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, or one significantly influenced by human beings. Novel, complex and connected global social-ecological shocks and risks are a crucial feature of the Anthropocene (Galaz, 2014). Despite the intense debates that have taken place in most of the physical (and, increasingly, in the social) sciences around the Anthropocene, the scholarship of management and organization theory has had limited engagement with these developments in the natural sciences (Whiteman, Walker & Perego, 2013). However, the concept of the Anthropocene has tremendous implications for management and organization studies: the dawn of the Anthropocene causes us to re-think the key issues around organizations and the environment: it forces management, business and organisation studies to address systemic issues of time and 'scale'; it brings added urgency to political issues around organizations, global governance and responsibility. Ultimately, we believe that the Anthropocene calls for new reflections around ontology and epistemology and much needed trans-disciplinarity.
This session will take place offsite at Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery at 312 Water Street, Gastown. Vancouver. For questions regarding this session please contact Dorothy Washbern at
dorothy@coastalpeoples.com or 604.684.9222.
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Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 363 | Submission: 15807 | Sponsor(s): (ONE)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 8 2015 12:15PM - 1:45PM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 013
Beyond Urgency: Expanding, Leveraging, and Renewing Academic Sustainability Management Actions
Beyond Sustainability Actions Theme: Opening Governance
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Contact Organizer: Mark Starik, San Francisco State U.
Contact Facilitator: Sanjay Sharma, U. of Vermont
Contact Facilitator: Suzanne Benn, U. of Technology, Sydney
Contact Facilitator: W Edward Stead, East Tennessee State U.
Contact Facilitator: Marie-France B. Turcotte, U. du Québec à Montréal
Contact Facilitator: Gordon P. Rands, Western Illinois U.
Contact Facilitator: Wendy Stubbs, Monash U.
Contact Facilitator: Timothy Stewart Clark, Northern Arizona U.
Contact Facilitator: Martina K. Linnenluecke, U. of Queensland
Contact Facilitator: Yipeng Liu, Mannheim U.
Contact Facilitator: Robert Perey, U. of Technology, Sydney
This proposed Professional Development Workshop is a follow-on to the Urgent Academic Sustainability Management Actions session that was successfully conducted as the ONE lead-off PDW at the 2014 Academy of Management meetings. That session attracted 40 attendees from multiple Academy divisions and interest groups and resulted in numerous small group discussions and a lengthy list of "urgent academic sustainability management" ideas and actions, which attendees were asked to consider for implementation after that session. The proposed PDW for the Academy 2015 meetings will expand, leverage, and renew those efforts in several ways. First, attendees from more Academy divisions and interest groups will be invited to participate in the session, going beyond "the usual suspects", to connect with any Academy members (and other meeting attendees) who have a sustainability action interest. Second, all attendees (which include nearly all of last year's session discussion leaders with a few additional co-organizers) will be asked to focus on the implementation and evaluation (including measurement, renewal, and communication) of both urgent sustainability actions from last year and those identified this year. Third, and related to the overall conference theme of "opening governance", both new and returning attendees will be encouraged to identify ways that multi-stakeholder joint actions could help advance progress on a selected set of urgent academic sustainability actions and to commit to monitoring, measuring, communicating, and upgrading the results of those actions. These actions could include various strategies to work with multiple Academy stakeholders to increase the Academy's overall positive sustainability impacts.
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