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AOM 2015 Professional Development Workshop
'Designing Sustainable Governance'
Saturday August 8th, 11:30-1:30
Vancouver Convention Centre Room 206
We invite you to join us for the PDW 'Designing Sustainable Governance'. Building on this year's theme of 'Opening Governance' we will explore how institutions, organizations, and practices can be creatively designed to facilitate the sustainable and innovative management of resources. In particular, we will focus on integrating a deep sustainability outlook – one which seeks to act in accordance with the biophysical limits of Earth's resources and carrying capacity for life – into organizational perspectives and actions. This insight is crucial if we, as scholars and practitioners, expect to contribute to organizations that move beyond discourse and symbolic action towards addressing our growing ecological crises in more meaningful ways.
We will use this theme to explore how deep sustainability could be integrated into diverse research streams and levels of analysis to incorporate it more effectively within broader research conversations.
The workshop is divided into three parts: first, keynote addresses by Bob Hinings, Neil Philcox, and Stuart Hart. Next, participants can choose one of three roundtables, each one guided by our keynote speakers and facilitators around the following themes:
1) Re/designing resource governance: How can we re/design more effective and equitable institutional arrangements for the conservation and distribution of the resources of the commons?
2) Re/designing sustainable organizations: How can organizational structures and their constituent practices be re/designed such that their overall activities are more environmentally and socially sustainable?
3) Re/designing innovation processes: What can practices such as 'agile,' 'frugal,' and 'lean' innovation teach us about how to create new value networks with fewer resources that are less taxing on the environment than existing products and services?
Finally, our panel of experts, Andrew Hoffman, Judith Walls, and Tyler Wry will discuss insights gained from the discussion and avenues for future research.
No registration is required. We look forward to seeing you there.
Organizers
Winston Kwon, University of Edinburgh
Raymond Paquin, Concordia University
Rajshree Prakash, Concordia University
Keynote Speakers
Stuart Hart, University of Vermont School of Business
Bob Hinings, University of Alberta
Neil Philcox, Co-founder, Grand Basin Capital, Vancouver, BC
Facilitators
Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan
Guillaume Pain, Concordia University
Judith Walls, Nanyang Technological University
Tyler Wry, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Guillaume Pain
PhD Candidate
Department of Management
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University
1450 Guy Street, MB 14.108
Montréal, QC, H3H 0A1